See Steven Waldman's post Conservative Legal Icon Charles Fried Elaborates on his Obama Endorsement. Excerpt and link below:
To me, the most neck-snapping Republican endorsement of Obama comes from Charles Fried, the solicitor general under Ronald Reagan. To say Fried is an important legal figure in the pro-life world is an understatement.
As Solicitor General under Ronald Reagan, Fried was the one who argued that the court should overturn Roe v. Wade in Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists .
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now come on out and help your Nevada neighbors CAST THAT BALLOT !
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now rock the vote for obama.
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PLEASE CONTACT ME TO SIGN UP FOR 1, 2, 3 OR MORE 2-HOUR SHIFTS TO GET OUT THE VOTE IN VEGAS. NO PERSUADING INVOLVED. YOU'LL BE KNOCKING ON DOORS OF IDENTIFIED OBAMA SUPPORTERS OR HANGING DOOR KNOB TAGS ON DOORS OF OBAMA SUPPORTERS REMINDING THEM TO VOTE ON ELECTION DAY!
MAKE IT HAPPEN!!
JOIN YOUR NEIGHBORS IN TRANSFORMING AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YOUR -- THAT'S YOU TWENTY-SOMETHINGS -- FUTURE AND YOUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE AND THE FUTURE OF THEIR CHILDREN TO THE SEVENTH GENERATION!11
WE NEED YOU. WE NEED YOU. WE NEED YOU. WE NEED YOU. WE NEED YOU.
AND IF YOU ARE ONLY ABLE TO DROP FOOD AND WATER BY STAGING AREAS IN THE PRECINCTS, THAT'S GOOD TOO.
WE REGISTERED THE VOTERS. WE CONVINCED THEM OBAMA IS THE ANSWER. NOW ALL WE NEED TO DO IS GET THEM TO THE POLLS.
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Thanks to Jon Taplin's blog for the below:
My friend Norman Lear passes along a thought from David SedarisTo put [undecided voters] in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it by my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?” To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.
My friend Norman Lear passes along a thought from David Sedaris
To put [undecided voters] in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it by my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?” To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.
To put [undecided voters] in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it by my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?”
To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.
A friend in Las Vegas just called and said she and others here are worried that the voting records can be altered because the voting is electronic. When I assured her that there was a paper back-up, she was relieved and suggested that I blog that fact, which I'm doing now.
You have no idea how meticulously the poll workers make certain that the voting records are protected. They take a tally of the total number of votes that each voting machine has calculated to date before the polls open in the morning. Both they and the poll observer (that's me and thousands like me) write those numbers down together with the number of the voting machine before the poll opens in the morning. Then in the evening after the poll closes, the numbers of the voters who voted on each machine are tallied for the day. The day-end tallies are justified with the written signatures of the day's voters and the day is not done for the poll workers until both sets of numbers match.
Then the cards containing the electronic data and the paper records are put into canvas bags and delivered, I assume, to the registrar of voters.
At the end of the day, I deliver the opening and closing tallies, together with the total number of voters, to the Obama Voter Protection Office. Had anyone been turned away from the polls, I would have reported that fact too, on a form provided to the poll observers. So far, I have had nothing to report.
This Nevada voting procedure seem very reliable because the poll workers appear to be extremely diligent and well-trained; the paper back-up serves as assurance that no one can "fix" the electronic records to add, delete or alter voting records, and, in all events, there are Voter Protection Workers present throughout each voting day to make sure YOUR VOTE IS ACCURATELY COUNTED!
I'm collecting people's stories from the road here in Las Vegas. Not a lot of time so will just bullet point them:
In Las Vegas doing voter protection. The polls are open for early voting and people are streaming in. The poll workers are amazing, treating every voter like a golden egg, making sure they're able to vote; resolving problems with registration by calling the registrar of voters for any problem that they cannot resolve on the ground. Makes you proud of our little "d" democracy. If you're a lawyer like me willing to devote a weekend or even just one day to voter protection, come on out.
