{"id":150,"date":"2008-05-18T22:10:05","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T05:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=150"},"modified":"2008-05-18T22:10:05","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T05:10:05","slug":"e-deceptive-campaign-practices-elections-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2008\/05\/18\/e-deceptive-campaign-practices-elections-20\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Deceptive Campaign Practices: &#8220;Elections 2.0&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at a tutorial on Tuesday discussing &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfp2008.org\/wiki\/index.php\/E-Deceptive_Campaign_Practices:_Elections_2.0\">elections 2.0<\/a>&#8221; at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference, and one of the things I want to cover is Web 2.0 technologies&#8217; positive role in <em>countering<\/em> deceptive campaign practices. I&#8217;m planning on using some examples from the Obama activism work I&#8217;ve been doing on Facebook, as well as some other sites I&#8217;ve tracked:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the &#8220;know your rights&#8221; work the One Million Strong for Barack group did for Texas and Ohio. group members got calls from a couple of people who had attended the Texas caucuses saying how valuable it was<\/li>\n<li>the Courage Campaign&#8217;s &#8220;count every vote&#8221; petition in Los Angeles County, which led to counting most (not all) of the votes on the deceptive ballots<\/li>\n<li><!--more-->an incident in the Ron Paul for President group where I thought he had left the race &#8212; because of a Washington Post headline saying &#8220;Ron Paul drops out&#8221; which turns out to be totally false. [The Ron Paul supporters had great fun at my expense &#8230; fooled by the mainstream media!]<\/li>\n<li>the ClintonAttacksObama wiki<\/li>\n<li>the repeated deconstruction in the Obama group of the &#8220;you must fear the Republicans&#8221; message we now see as embedded in so much mainstream media coverage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, these inevitably reflect my own experiences, knowledge, and perspective; so it would be great to supplement with others&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>What are some other good examples of online groups countering deceptive election practices?<\/p>\n<p>jon<\/p>\n<p>PS: I also posted variants of this in several higher-traffic places, including the<span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/topic.php?uid=2231653698&amp;topic=35333\">One Million Strong for Barack Facebook group<\/a>, the<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/uspolitics.tribe.net\/thread\/636c47fb-4e06-41af-a0e8-d8bf6d68d84c#05ef5fef-dd74-4253-9a6f-084419c7147f\"> US politics tribe<\/a><\/span> on tribe.net and the<span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/topic.php?topic=41252&amp;uid=2229718737\"> Congressman Ron Paul for President Facebook group<\/a><\/span> &#8230; please respond wherever you like, and repost and link freely!<\/p>\n<p><em>Like all content on this blog, this post and comments are under a Creative Commons attribution (&#8220;by&#8221;) license.  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