Project Mythbreaker in Iowa: DELIVERED!
This report came in today from Dr. Alta Price of Bettendorf, DFIA’s Project Mythbreaker coordinator:
Democracy
for Iowa has now coordinated delivery of “Myth Breakers for Election
Officials” to all 99 Iowa Counties, as well as to Chet Culver's office.
As far as I can tell, we are the only DFA group to have undertaken such
an ambitious project to ensure fair elections in their state. Check out
the first website below to see us listed as the contact group in Iowa.
The second website is my personal favorite. Look at all the little gold
stars we got! LOL
List of organizations in each state
http://www.votersunite.org/info/groups.asp
Status of Iowa
http://www.votersunite.org/takeaction/kickoff-participantsIA.asp
Alta Price
And boy, did Alta ever earn us those gold stars! In case you didn’t get the chance to read our report to DFA which was posted on Blog for America two weeks ago, here’s the rest of the Project Mythbreaker in Iowa story:
Our next big project, [begun in April,] was through the non-partisan fair elections organization VotersUnite! VotersUnite! is run by Ellen Theisen, former Executive Director of VerifiedVoting.org. Ellen has written the quintessential handbook on the subject of touch-screen voting, called Myth Breakers for Election Officials,
so Democracy for Iowa set out to print out and hand-deliver a copy of
this tome to the county auditor in each of Iowa’s 99 counties.
We had our big launch and got some press coverage
thanks to Alta and her press release. [At that point, we had
delivered to 19 Iowa counties.] In the end, Alta decided to go
right to the source: The Iowa State Association of Counties (ISAC)
Summer School. She printed up 100 copies [since the materials had
been updated 3 times since we first set out delivering the booklets]
along with the more recent findings about the ES&S system flaws,
and had them delivered directly to the registration desk at the ISAC
meeting with the help of the Scott County Auditor, Karen Fitzsimmons,
and the Deputy Auditor of Clinton County, Betsy Smith. Alta had
labeled each booklet with the name of the county so we could track
them. Ultimately, we only received 12 of the booklets back, and
heard reports that no one was listening to the speakers because they
were too engrossed in reading Myth Breakers! [And, as Alta reported
above, the remaining booklets have now been shipped off to the election
officials in the appropriate counties!]
Well done, Alta! We are so proud of all your hard work and your determination to make a difference in Iowa.
Blog For Iowa 
Is not our Alta perfect!?….We are so fortunate to have her on our side….What she has done can certinally be of benefit to other states….We need to give her a 5 star DEAN certificate
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Okay guys, knock it off! (blushing)
On the other hand…must bookmark this page to show to teenage children…
Alta
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LOL!
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