On 2011.Nov.28 I registered to become an Americans Elect
Delegate, and in response I got
e-mail
confirming that I'm a delegate.
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Some things to note about that e-mail:
It says "Go to
AmericansElect.org"
but doesn't say what to do when I get there. I looked around there
but couldn't find any way to do anything. In particular,
there was no way to log in as a delegate.
It also says
"*Participation in the convention is subject to verification of your
status as a registered voter in the United States." I assumed that
since it had asked me for my name and voting-address at the time
I registered, that it was going to somehow use that to
verify my status as registered voter, but there was no obvious way
to check on the Web site as to whether this had happened in my case
or was still in-progress or had been abandoned.
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On Twitter, I asked
@AmericansElect
and they replied to me that Americans Elect hasn't yet set up any way to
verify voter registration, and I should give them some time to
get that done. I gave them until 2012.March, when I still hadn't gotten
any e-mail regarding either my registration on the Web site nor
the process of verifying my voter registration, and then I asked
@AmericansElect
again, and this time I was told I need to log into their Web site.
But their Web site required a PIN for login, and I had never been
assigned any PIN, so I couldn't log in.
@AmericansElect said I
should reset my PIN. I tried that, and
on 2012.Mar.11 I got another
e-mail. It included a URL which was supposed to
be for resetting my password. I went to that URL, but there was
no way to reset my password. I complained to
@AmericansElect
but never got a response.
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On 2012.May.19 I got impatient with the lack of any response from
Americans Elect in regard to the above questions,
so I started to complain again. First I browsed
@AmericansElect
and found this tweet
dated 2012.May.16:
We're asking for your feedback -- How do you think we should move
forward? http://ow.ly/aVB2a
Well obviously they have an urgent pending issue from last November,
namely that I registered back then but they haven't yet set up any
way for me to do anything towards nominating a candidate,
such as no way
yet to verify my voter registration, no way yet for me to log into
their Web site as a candidate, so obviously they must get that
fixed before they even consider any further actions towards
having me nominate and/or vote for a candidate. I also tried
the link in their tweet, and found problems there too.
So I
tweeted these replies:
#1:
Last November @AmericansElect sent me e-mail "Thanks for becoming an
Americans Elect Delegate!" but I haven't yet been able to get a PIN.
#2:
ow.ly/aVB2a = http://t.co/OlmoEmAx is totally broken, says I need to log in but
doesn't provide any way to do that. @AmericansElect
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I also noticed that @aerynkelly had tweeted a
recommendation
for Americans Elect:
Not familiar with Americans Elect? I highly recommend you check it out.
http://bit.ly/e1Kn3m wish we had something like this for #MEPolitics
so I tweeted
this reply:
In November I signed up as a delegate, and got confirmation of my
registration, but no info how to participate. @aerynkelly @AmerElectSW
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I got this two-part response back:
#1:
@CalRobert Click on "sign up" in the top right hand side of the page.
Our message board is powered by GetSatisfaction, so...
#2:
@CalRobert ...you have to create an account. Thanks for your
participation!
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I sent these replies:
#1:
On www.AmericansElect.org I don't see any mention of "sign up",
so what page is @AmericansElect talking about?
#2:
Last November when I registered as a delegate, got e-mail confirming that fact,
how is that not same as creating an account? @americanselect
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Meanwhile, back on 2012.May.19 11, shortly after tweeting my three
questions/complaints, I also sent
this e-mail
to
info@AmericansElect.org summarizing my 5-6 months of frustration.
On 2012.May.21 I got
this reply
from support@americanselect.org.
On 2012.May.21 19 I sent this
e-mail
back to support@americanselect.org.
As of 2012.May.22 20:09, as I finish compiling all the notes above,
I haven't yet gotten a reply to either the e-mail I sent yesterday nor
today's tweets.
My tentative conclusion at this point is that Americans Elect
is a scam, lying through their teeth that it would allow
ordinary people such as myself a way to nominate a candidate,
when in fact they have a secret nomination process that
isn't open to anyone except their cronies.
At least one other person agrees with me:
d...@gone.com
Now please consider the alternative I set up myself last year:
In NewEco (click on the portal,
which is the live online system). I allow anyone
anywhere (providing they have Web access, even from a cell-phone, and
providing that they can read+type English text)
to nominate a candidate and then to vote for any combination of
already-nominated candidates. Voting is weighted per the amount of
labor the voter donates. (Money is not allowed, only human labor.)
Although voting for in the actual election ought to be by citizens
of the USA, I see no reason why not to allow anyone anywhere to
vote for who gets on the ballot, since our President controls the
biggest military power in the world which affects everyone on Earth.
To vote for a candidate for President: Go to the portal, create a
new account (which requires filling in a missing word to show that
you are a human), then log in, then earn some funds by doing some
work for NewEco (at present the only way to earn funds is to answer more
missing-word questions), then go to Surveys, and select the option
for POTUS, then either apply some of your funds to some candidate
already nominated or nominate one of your own.