The Americans Elect web page now lets members sign in, and complete procedures designed to identify oneself and also to enable Americans Elect to verify that the member is a registered voter. Americans Elect already has approximately 400,000 members. A member is someone who has signed up to vote in the organization’s on-line presidential primary in June 2012. Once members complete this procedure, the member is a “delegate.”
Members complete this process by signing in, and then going to “My account” and then choosing “Voting Security.” Four activities are then required. First, the member confirms his or her e-mail address by entering it and having Americans Elect send a confirming e-mail. Then, the member chooses a strong PIN, which must be a number that is at least six digits. Then, the member chooses four security questions and provides the answers. These are similar to the security questions that banks use to know the identity of their on-line customers; the idea is that only the individual will know the answers to the chosen security questions. Finally, the member enters the residence address at which he or she is registered to vote, so that Americans Elect can cross-check with voter registration records that the member really is a registered voter.
Just verified. Bank level technology.
One more giant database PURGE list ???
Clarification: a “delegate,” per the bylaws and rules of Americans Elect, is not someone who has signed up at Americans Elect. That is a “member.” A delegate is a member whose voter registration has been verified and who has signed a pledge to support Americans Elect. It might seem like a picky difference, but delegates and members have very different roles at Americans Elect.
#3, thank you.
Sounds like a data mining operation to me. BE WISE AS SERPENTS FOLKS!!
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Further clarification: A “delegate” must accept the “delegate pledge” to support “the mission” of Americans Elect. A delegate is not required to support the AE nominated candidates.
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Rikki Tikki Tavi,
Uh-oh…AE asked me for my credit card pin # and credit balance availability which I provided…is that a problem?
#7, ha-ha.
How about any blood oaths to support AE to the death ???
NOT a ha-ha !!! ???
Can ND residents participate? If so, how?
#10, Just go to americanselect.com and sign up.
Haha their system is screwed up! They said they couldn’t verify that I was a registered voter. I’ve voted in every general election since 2005. Fail.
#10, good question. An Americans Elect official tells me that North Dakota has some sort of secondary list of adult citizens that is publicly available. Apparently they will use that.
#12, what state do you live in?
For older TV fans —
The Prisoner – around 1968 — Brit spy guy who quits is gassed and taken to a concentration camp. See the internet wiki.
[Why did you quit ?] We want information.
#13 Pennsylvania.
Richard, I had the same problem as Jed. I filled in all my information correctly, and then they asked me two very odd questions.
First they asked the birthplace of some woman with my same surname. There was an option to reply something like ‘I don’t know this person,’ and I truthfully answered that. Then they asked me the birth-month of some man with the same surname. Again I replied that I didn’t known the person in question. Finally, they told me I could not be verified.
I will be permitted to go through all that again 24 hours after they rejected me, they say. For the record, I live in Indiana, but I’m sure AE has been making this kind of trouble for people from all over.
If anyone has read this far, at least take solace in one implication of all this malarkey- that the verification process is not so easily passed as so many of us had feared.
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#16 The person with the same surname they picked out for me was my Dad, which was a little creepy to be honest.
World Net Daily, now called WND, has an article stating that AE has close ties with the current administration. I’ll past the link and hope it works.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/is-this-how-obama-win-will-be-guaranteed/
I will reserve commentary until later.
In the above post, “past” is the watered-down American version of paste đ
Rick Hasen, editor of Election Law Blog calls on Americans Elect Corporation for:
1) disclosure of all of their donors;
2) abandoning Internet voting;
(3) removing the provisions giving the board-appointed committee the ability to reject an âunbalancedâ ticket.
Remember, Americans Elect is a corporation, not a political party, and is run by One Percenters.
#21 Is AE part of the 0.666 percent gang ???
#22 AE is a 501 C 4 corporation, not a political party.
As a 501 C4 they can keep their funding secret.
Somehow they are perceived as a political party.
The founders of AE include hedge fund managers.
Their committee that can override the vote has connections to FBI and CIA.
The vote can be hacked from inside or outside.
But no need to hack, because AE ultimately decides who wins or loses.
For those who trust bank “security”, keep in mind with bank account you only account for your own, not others. and banks factor in fraud as it happens all of the time.
Google Americans Elect Watch for AE’s own records.
Has anyone looked at their vetting process.
Did Ackerman do any checking before he hired APC? Michael Arnoâs misjudgements and misconduct as it relates to peoples private information, his associations with internet predators, and the âfamous Arno porn collectionâ (he stopped bragging about that around the same time this contract started) are all common knowledge and public record.
Or, was this leverage buyout specialist looking for a firm he could compromise. Everything seemed to change when Arno had to refund nearly $30,000.00 (opensecrets.org). This wasnât the only time clients demanded refunds from Mike Arno. It had become a regular occurance, along with unpaid vendors, since the death of Bill Arno and the arrest of Rich Nicholas.
Either way, I certainlly would not trust the the security of an internet convention with a big, fat, Mike Arno shaped, dying albatross around itâs neck.
Just my $0.02
R.F.