[EL] representation needed

[Robbin Stewart]

https://ballots.blogspot.com/2018/11/representation-needed-to-gaurd-against.html
*representation needed*

To gaurd against electoral meltdown, provisional votes matter. Indiana's
voter ID scheme was upheld in part by the plurality because in theory
provisional votes provide a failsafe backstop for those who can't or won't
show an ID. In practice, though, the rule has been no ID, no vote. So I've
been making little videos of me or my friends declining to show ID, and
being refused the vote.

For many years I've been resisting the push for voter ID, socal security
number abuse, and other examples of security theater that actually
introduce new vulnerabilities into the system. I am inept at both the
lawyering end and the journalism end. I know enough to be able to be able
to file a potentially winnable lawsuit, but not enough to see it through to
the end and get paid. My few past successes have usually been when I've
been able to team up with a more confident competent lawyer or legal team.
I'm in that situation now, where I am reasonably confident that I am right
on the law, and have the evidence to prove my case, but the other team has
more lawyers guns and money.

 Following *crawford v marion county election board, *precinct workers
think that one must have id to vote.
In practice that means the $20 driver's license, obtained with a $12 birth
certificate and an average three trips to the bmv for more paperwork.

 I see this as violating the letter and spirit of Eisenhower's 24th
amendment, so I am unwilling to comply. The cases actually get won or lost
on First Amendment and equal protection grounds; the 24th is considered a
vestigial appendix like the 3rd or, until recently, the 2nd.

I'm an old conservative white would-be Trump voter suing a younger black
woman liberal democrat, but I see myself as carrying on Thurgood Marshall's
struggle for the right to vote. I do not see voting as a partisan issue.

Currently, the county election staff understands provisonal ballots, and
they know me by name and try to get it right, but 1000 poll workers have
been mistrained, so the results are hit and miss, and the process is
capricous and arbitrary. Meanwhile their lawyers in federal court keep
asserting that there is no right to a provisonal ballot. I wonder about the
ethics of that.

 I need counsel. Mine is a small case. I'm trying to get my vote counted or
get paid, in order to put a first dent in indiana's system, rather than any
grand facial challenge to the whole scheme right now. where are these
thousands of election protection lawyer we hear about?  I can't find a
single one. This cycle I documented three times I was told no ID, no vote.
In one case the guy denied to his supervisor that it had happened, but I'd
gotten it on video. This time I'd been denied press credentials, so I had
to be careful where and when and how I videoed, since I've been threatened
with arrest if I videoed at a polling place without credentials. The denial
might be a new case in itself, and there's a separate likely case about
censorship of political signs.

I am currently *pro se, *which is not an optimum litigation strategy. I
need counsel. I've been turned down by the aclu and the usual suspects, and
have no funds of my own. I hope to hear from someone.
gtbear at gmail.
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