Campus Progress Helps Video the Vote
By Celia Segel - Nov 6th, 2008 at 9:26 amCampus Progress filmed students at George Mason University in Northern Virginia after hearing that the school’s 35,000 students received a fraudulent email from a computer hacker who identified himself as Peter Stearns, the school’s provost. The email was short and sweet, telling students, “Please note that Election Day has been moved to November 5th. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.” The real Peter Stearns corrected the email almost immediately.
Most students didn’t think anyone was affected by the scam. Still, some worried that–even though their friends voted–there’s always someone out there to be fooled.
Campus Progress worked along side thousands of other self-appointed voter protection monitors who roamed polling places across the country on Tuesday to Video the Vote–an election protection project initiated by a coalition of civil rights and civic engagement groups nationwide. The project was in response to the voting complications that have tarnished the past two elections, many times disenfranchising voters who have historically been marginalized.
While early videos mostly documented intimidation tactics during early voting, later reports found long lines, unprocessed registrations, voting machine failures, and controversies with provisional ballots. Voting complications were scattered across the country, but, unlike in previous years, didn’t seem to particularly affect certain areas more than others.
Check out what George Mason Students had to say by clicking here, or view other accounts of voting hurdles by visiting videothevote.org.
This is a very interesting article. I thank the author for her contribution to the exposition of voter fraud.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:38 pm