Kerry's office needs to read this ZOGBY poll - - - - TODAY.

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And MOVE to talk about it SOONER.

From Election Forum thread:

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t doesn't matter more than a few percentage points whether you're black or white, hispanic or asian, republican or democrat or independent, catholic, protestant, jew, union or not, red state or blue state, very conservative or liberal, armed forces or nascar fan, walmart shopper or walmart boycotter, old or young, male or female, married or single, rich or poor. It just doesn't matter what demographic you're from because 86% is the lowest amount of support from any demographic and that's the youngsters 18-24 who're still in school (probably) and therefore "still learning."

So EVERY SINGLE CONCEIVABLE DEMOGRAPHIC GROUP SUPPORTS THIS PRINCIPLE BY A MINIMUM OF 86% AND AN AVERAGE OF 92%. And that includes a lotta people you don't agree with, too.

And the question involves voters having a choice of state laws regarding transparency of vote counting:

18. In some states, members of the public have the right to view the counting of votes and verify how that process is working. In other states, citizens are in effect barred from viewing vote counting even if they would like to view the process. Which of the following two statements are you more likely to agree with – A or B?
Table 1.

Statement A: Citizens have the right to view and obtain information about how election officials count votes.
92%

Statement B: Citizens do not have the right to view and obtain information about how elections officials count votes.
6%

Neither/Not sure
2%
Most all likely voters (92%) agree that citizens have the right to view and obtain information about how election officials count votes (Statement A). Just 6% feel citizens do not have this right (Statement B).
Eighty-six percent or more of people within every demographic group agrees with Statement A. This includes overwhelming majorities of Democrats (93%), Republicans (87%), and independents (97%). Furthermore, no more than 10% of people in any sub-group – with the sole exception of 18-29 year-olds (13%) – agree more with Statement B.

Almost since day one (for me, around November 2004) I've been stressing that the "secret vote counting" frame is the best one, because the process is undeniably secret and there's broad public support for transparency. The results of the Zogby poll I commissioned came in even stronger than I had dared hope for.
IMO, activists who are talking against secret vote counting and in favor of transparency should know that they are about as politically bullet proof as you can get under conditions of free debate.

And you REALLY better Watch out for Asian Americans and folks in civil unions where support for transparency is 100%.

Anyway, we will be working with Zogby and so forth to do a press release to Zogby's 35,000 press contacts with the results of this poll, tentatively set for Tuesday of this coming week. For purposes of the Zogby press release, I will need to come up with or raise $3500 for Zogby's fee on that, I've got a pledge for $1000 so far. I went into the hole about three grand of the initial five grand for the poll (but got almost two grand in help from white knights of the election community).

One idea is to do local press releases Tuesday to show precisely how out of touch your various local officials are with EVERY DEMOGRAPHIC IMAGINABLE by withholding documents about vote counting, for example.
Are your local officials "public servants" when they shill for and carry water for Diebold, Sequoia, ES&S, Triad, Danaher and the like instead of going with 92% on average of every political persuasion in America????
When it comes to anti-secret vote counting and pro-transparency, activists should be walking around like they are invincible and can't lose. Because they can't.... !!! The only way we can lose is by letting the subject change away from the transparency and anti-secret vote counting frames.
Please "lock and load" for early this week in terms of getting ready to blast the media in your local area with a press release, or encouragement to cover this poll as news, or with blogging support or email list support. Cross tabbed results are available for people working on this, but hey you hardly need them since the numbers are so univerally high!! We won't get many opportunities to plug a story like this and get a big chance for a splash in the media, so please consider whether or not this might be the best possible use of your activist time in the upcoming week. [e-mail] for more info.
Paul Lehto