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.