Prop 8 Equal Rights Protest INFORMATION NEWS

A news cast vlog with information on upcoming Prop 8 protests, rallies, and actions. Dates, times, and places.

News from current and previous protests. News and info on the struggle for equal rights in California and the US.

This is the 1st of many such info news broadcasts.

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• rights
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• marriage
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• activism

[enigmatically]

You should really mute your computer when doing video blogs :P

[bbs5ekata]

heh, A) if I mute my computer, the built-in mike doesn't record my voice.

B) I'm amused by the little beeps :)

[enigmatically]

I think it was more like 2%. 48% is only 2% away from 52% when you're considering that there is only 100% total.

[bbs5ekata]

I have HORRIBLE trouble with simple math.. can you tell me how that works out? I can't get it...

[volnessj]

We will have our rights, it's only a matter of time.

[bbs5ekata]

most excellent analysis!! Thank you very much!

[enigmatically]

In other words, those who voted NO lost by 200,001 votes instead of 400,001 votes if you're just counting a static voter pool. Now if you're trying not to sway YES to NO but get more new people to the polls to vote NO, it would have taken 400,001 new votes to defeat the prop. But I'd suggest that it was lost because people voted yes through misinformation and fear, who would have otherwise voted no, and that the number of voters in the total pool wouldn't have changed that much.

[enigmatically]

Say there are 10 million votes: 5.2 million voted yes and 4.8 million voted no; that leaves a difference of 400k votes.

However, had just 200,001 voted NO instead of YES then the proposition would have failed.

It would not have taken 400,000 (4%) switching their votes because 5.2 mil - 200,001 = 4,999,999 YES with 5,000,001 NO.

A margin of 2% difference (200k/10mil) was needed for a tie, and just one more vote needed swaying for a win.

[raphael3712]

I wanted to go to the Utah protest at the Temple and LDS Church headquarters, but had to go to manditory training at work. So I spent all night last night and all this morning rallying people to go since I couldn't. The Utah protest was 1000 strong according to local media reports. I'm trying to stage other forms of protest at the moment.

[5koorb]

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....­............ssssssssssssssssss­ suck it

[xaviervonrottie]

Never give up the fight! Together we will win! Keep the battle going! We all need to take this to the street. We have all set back for way to long and let others run over us! The time to fight is now! Victory will be ours!