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.