You Tube To Host Caucus Videos
You Tube and the Des Moines Register have teamed up to host your video about the Iowa caucus in your precinct. Go for it!!! Lights, camera, action!
Here’s what I hope to see. Make sure to carefully identify your precinct and county at the beginning of your video. Include a scene of the caucus result being phoned in to party HQ. Get close enough to hear the caller and hope he (she) talks you through the call as various buttons are pushed for each candidate.
If you do that, the Iowa Democratic caucuses will be completely transparent. That’s our goal here at Iowa Voters for Open and Transparent Elections. IDP intends to have a website that will report results precinct-by-precinct. The video will attest that the web results actually happened. One part of the internet will be checking on another part of the internet. It’s a new form of checks and balances.
This won’t work for the Republican caucuses since all their results go into a back room somewhere and get totalled up by cigar-chomping hacks—er—by devout deacons of the party faithful. Anyway, you can’t check or balance what they do. But you can still post a video of your caucus. I look forward to seeing some.
I’ll try to get my son to record the caucus in this precinct. I’ll have a link here as soon as he gets it posted.