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KAMALA HARRIS AND TIM WALZ NEED THE GRASSROOTS  
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Harvey Wasserman
August 10, 2024
LA Progressive
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_ Harris/Walz need grassroots organizing and election protection to
win the White House. Whether you like it or not, democracy means you
ARE involved, now more than ever. So prepare to be intensely active at
least through January 20, 2025. _

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Despite all the excitement and momentum surrounding the Harris-Walz
ticket, their path to win the White House must run through four
weighty words: grassroots organizing & election protection.

As hot as they might seem right now, they cannot win if they squander
their campaign funds on ceaseless media hype…or if they ignore the
massive Trump/Bannon push to take the Electoral College even while
losing the popular vote.

REMEMBER: Amidst a prevailing aura of “certain victory,” Hillary
Clinton won the 2016 election by 3 million POPULAR votes…but Donald
Trump wound up in the White House.

And if that history repeats itself, we will never, as Trump promises,
“need to vote again.”

GRASSROOTS RELATIONAL ORGANIZING

The Democratic Party regularly squanders countless millions on
electronic advertising, from which top campaign insiders scam
kickbacks.

But grassroots, “relational” organizing in 2020–2 produced a
“Georgia Miracle” that, against all odds, filled two key US Senate
seats with a black man and a Jew, shifting the Congressional power
balance. 

 Using what Atlanta-based organizer Ray McClendon calls “targeted
messaging from targeted messengers,” on-the-ground organizers
focused on the neighborhoods where they live and the issues that made
a tangible difference to voters.

The glib belief that this year’s election can be won by clever
advertising and standardized anti-Trump messaging blared repeatedly
through the media and social networks is a suicidal illusion. 

A Harris/Walz win can’t happen without a massive grassroots campaign
whose progressive donations will fund tens of thousands of dedicated
organizers working at the local level, focused on community democracy
centers and door-to-door relational campaigning. 

PROTECTING THE VOTER ROLLS: 

In the lead-up to the 2000 election, Governor Jeb Bush purged at least
90,000 suspected black and Hispanic voters from Florida’s
registration rolls, feeding an official Bush victory of 537 ballots.
Getting there required a violent “Brooks Brothers Mob” assault on
the vote count run in part by three current US Supreme Court
Justices—John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Barrett. 

 As reported at the time by Greg Palast, Jeb’s computerized cross
burning put his brother in the White House. As reported by Bob
Fitrakis and I, the process was repeated in Ohio 2004. 

In 2024, the Trump Crusade again has MAGA Republicans stripping
suspected anti-Trump voters, usually identified by race. Swing state
Georgia lets any single citizen disenfranchise thousands of registered
voters with no justifying evidence required. (See “Vigilantes” by
Greg Palast.). 

Victims may have the right to re-register. But such state-sanctioned
attacks could swing any state. In his recent swing through Georgia,
Trump heralded three MAGA election flunkies who could single-handedly
flip that state.

SAVING THE PRECINCTS: 

 MAGA mobster Steve Bannon (currently in prison) wants a war on local
election boards and staff in the 3,000+ local precincts where
presidency will be decided.

Bannon wants those precincts filled with Trump cultists who’ll
terrorize and disenfranchise non-MAGA voters while seizing the vote
count.

The current Harris boom has inspired some 200,000 citizens to
volunteer to work this election. Hopefully, in opposition to the
thousands Bannon already has in place, they’ll work the polls while
protecting the voter rolls and making sure the precincts rightfully
deliver all authorized ballots while accurately counting, carefully
auditing them when they return by mail, and protecting the citizens
who turn up in person at the polls.

GUARANTEEING HAND-MARKED, DIGITALLY-SCANNED, RELIABLY AUDITED PAPER
BALLOTS

In Florida 2000, Ohio 2004, and Wisconsin-Michigan-Pennsylvania 2016,
massive “irregularities” tainted the computerized vote counts in
many electronic balloting devices. 

As reported by Bev Harris, wild electronic fluctuations in Volusia and
other Florida counties corrupted more than enough votes to swing the
2000 outcome. Robert Fitrakis documented similar malfunctions in
scores of machines in Ohio 2004, and again in Wisconsin, Michigan and
Pennsylvania in 2016.

In the wake of Florida/Ohio 2000-4, a national grassroots demand
erupted for hand-marked paper ballots that would be digitally scanned.
Amidst the 2020 Covid epidemic, more than 80% of the nation’s
ballots were cast on paper.

In 2020 those digitally scanned hand-marked paper ballots produced a
vote count that survived more than sixty Trump lawsuits. In swing
state Arizona, transparent accounting from AUDIT USA helped certify an
accurate state-wide tally despite extremely aggressive MAGA attacks.

In 2024, a national grassroots movement will again be required to work
precinct-by-precinct to protect the voter rolls and produce a reliably
audited tally based on digitally scanned hand-marked paper ballots.
Without all that, Harris/Walz can’t win. 

SAVING THE US POSTAL SERVICE

According to the US Election Assistance Agency, a majority of the 2020
ballots cast came through the USPS, which is STILL being run by Trump
appointee Louis DeJoy. To say his conduct this year demands thorough
scrutiny is to vastly understate the dangers to democracy DeJoy
poses. 

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ELECTORAL DECERTIFICATION

Topping the Trump/Bannon election theft playbook may be the
choreographed refusal of MAGA election officials to certify the
outcomes in the states they control. It’s widely reported that
Bannon may have recruited at least seventy MAGA infiltrators at
high-level official administrative positions who are poised to
withhold certification of their state’s duly elected Electoral
College delegations. In a recent speech in Georgia, Trump loudly
praised three state officials who could block certification of that
state’s electoral results. 

Such a refusal could easily wreck havoc with the final Electoral
College vote count. There are a wide range of scenarios by which Trump
could claim victory under these circumstances. Forewarned is
forearmed.

PRESERVING A NON-VIOLENT CONSTITUTIONAL TRANSITION

Bannon and the MAGA core have proclaimed a 2024 Trump victory to be a
divine certainty. Winning a “Christian Nationalist” state by any
means necessary will most certainly feed multiple re-runs of the kinds
of bloodshed that poisoned January 6, 2021.

Violence at the polls, manipulated vote counts, refusal to certify
returns, anointing fake electors, denying a full Electoral College
vote count, defaulting the final vote to a Congress in which Trump
could win—all the above would certainly be upheld by the Trump-run
Supreme Court. The one 2024 certainty is that Bannon and his MAGA
minions will “fill the commons with sh*t,” and nothing will be
“normal.”

Whether you like it or not, democracy means you ARE involved, now more
than ever.

So prepare to be intensely active at least through January 20, 2025.

Please see the PEOPLE’S HUB for Grassroots Election Organizing
(www.usgrassroots.org
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and join our Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection zooms most
Mondays 2-4pm PT / 5-7 ET . (www.grassrootsep.org
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_HARVEY “SLUGGO” WASSERMAN’s radio show are Green Power &
Wellness podcast 2-3pm Eastern time Thursdays, and California
Solartopia broadcast at KPFK-Pacifica 90.7FM Los Angeles, Thursdays
6:30-7pm Pacific time. His 20 books include SOLARTOPIA! Our
Green-Powered Earth, Harvey Wasserman’s History of the US, A Glimpse
of the Big Light: Losing Parents, Finding Spirit and The Life &
Death Spiral of US History: From Deganawidah to the Trumpocalypse to
Rebirth, all at www.solartopia.org [[link removed]]. With
Bob Fitrakis he’s co-authored six books on election protection
including The Strip & Flip Disaster of America’s Stolen Elections.
He’s also about solarizing LA, and would be glad to hear about your
roof._

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