About a month ago, right before the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, some of us in the various Hillary Clinton Facebook groups joined Americans Elect. The registration process was in two phases. One member of one of the groups then sent word out that to fully participate, after logging in, you needed to complete three additional steps to “fortify” your account (the term AE uses). I did go through the additional steps and warned my friends that it is a little scary. In each of those steps there are statements and you are to choose the one that is true of you. In every instance, one of the statements is true – not simply true, but very specific. When you complete the process you receive a message that your account has been fortified and that you have been verified as a registered voter.
Ohhhhhh!!!! The hesitation I heard from my friends! Who ARE they? Who is behind this? How secure is this? Etc., etc., etc. Well now we have an answer to those questions. The answer is both a surprise and should not be all at once. Lynn Forester de Rothschild appeared Cavuto this week and she is the big name behind this . Really, I should have suspected. She explained the AE mission and how the site works. For those who were concerned about security, she was very reassuring. She did not name him, but the fellow who set up security for ETrade left his job there to work with AE.
For some reason, always a mystery to me at WordPress, the embed code for the clip does not work here, but here is the link. I encourage you to watch (she mentions our HRC). I hope that knowing it is Lady Lynn will encourage my Hillary friends to join us at AE and go through the full process to become a Hillary Clinton delegate for the online convention in June!
Link to Lynn Forester de Rothschild on Cavuto discussing Americans Elect.
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