DFA/DFIA Meet Up This Wednesday, June 2
[The QC Meet Up meets on Thursday, June 3.]
In an
odd sort of synchronicity, the State Group leaders from the NYC Meet Up
suggested that all the Meet Ups nationwide participate this Wednesday
in the verified voting movement. This was well received amongst
the State Group leaders and approved by DFIA Meet Up Coordinator Karene
'kid' Nagle for Iowa.
Most of us had agreed that going offline was a great idear, and that we would ask our Meet Up hosts to download the petition at VerifiedVoting.org.
This
happened just days before Gov. Dean's Count Every Vote online petition
came out, which, I might add, now has over 100,000 signatures.
In the meantime, a regular BFA blogger, known as “jc,” created an offline version of Gov. Dean's Count Every Vote petition.
You can download the Count Every Vote petition here
to pass out to your Meet Up members. Please print out one for
each member and ask them to fill them up and return them to you.
Alison at DFA asks that you enter the CEV petition information you collect into a spreadsheet and email it to her at blog@democracyforamerica.com.
The DFA
CEV petition asks for email addresses. If you would prefer to
work with the Verified Voting petition, which is mailed in to
VerifiedVoting.org once you fill up the page, you can download the
petition here. You can also find a five-page summary of the Verified Voting topic and a two-page flyer here.
Iowa was
also ahead of the curve with the Bridge The Gap For Health Care Event
scheduled for June 19th. Original DFIA member Bev Clark suggested
we participate in this a month ago. Come to find out, the day I
was going to post this, we got a message from the mothership asking us
to announce this at the June 2nd Meet Up, and to join with any other
events already scheduled or to set up our own events. The last
time I checked, which was this morning, there was one event scheduled
— in Iowa City.
Go here for more information.
To coordinate your own local event, go here.
Also
from the State Group leaders, Liz Herbert, who runs DeanRR, now known
as the Rapid Response Network, has asked us to mention Iowa RR at the
June 2nd Meet Up. I'll send out a blurb about that from Liz when
I receive it. You can sign up for DeanRR – Iowa here.
And, last but not least, you will find the June 2nd Meet Up agenda here.
Oh,
and don't forget to turn in your Meet Up report to DFA this week.
Last month, only two Meet Up hosts from Iowa turned in their
reports. One advantage to turning in the report is that your name
and contact info then appear on the list of Meet Up hosts for the next
month in case anyone is looking to hook up with a Meet Up. Thanks
for all your hard work!
Linda Thieman and DFIA Meet Up Coordinator Karene 'kid' Nagle
Blog For Iowa 