Mothers Against Debt and Liberty on the Rocks would like to thank all those who participated in our Citizen Auditors training. We traveled throughout Colorado and trained more than 110 citizen activists on how examine government spending and ask for supporting documentation.

The whole point was to get citizens motivated to look at government spending that is either closest or most important to them. This is NOT about what MAD and Liberty on the Rocks believe is most compelling but rather what the citizen auditors and readers believe.

For our Citizen Auditors contest, we received eleven entries.  Below are links to each and their corresponding Facebook page, which we made as a tool to promote each entry.

MAD did not edit except for readability or layout. We did examine supporting documents but due to length chose not to publish them. The entries are in the contestants’ own words. Although MAD did provide a quick synopsis at the beginning of each entry.

Readers will notice multiple entries from some contestants and that is within the rules of the Citizen Auditors contest.

Voting Rules:

• Begins at 1 a.m. on Monday, October 11, 2010
• Ends at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, October 17, 2010
• Voting will be on the Mothers Against Debt Web site but you must have a Facebook account to vote.
• You may vote once each day (a 24 hour period) for up to three entries. It may appear that you can vote more than once, but your vote will be counted only one time.  The vote that counts will be the last one you place during a 24 hour day.
• 24 hours is from 12:01 am to 11:59 p.m.
• To draw attention to the contest, we have provided every submission with its own Facebook page.
• Encourage friends/family to vote on Mothers Against Debt and to “like” your submission page.
• Encourage friends/family to comment on your page.
• Encourage friends/family to tell their Facebook friends to vote and to “like” your page.
• The entry with the most votes wins $2,500.
• The entry with the second highest number of votes wins $750.
• The entry with the third highest number of votes wins $500.
• The others will win $100 for honorable mention. If we had received more than thirteen entries, then only the next 10 after the top three voter getters would win.
• One exception to the top three spots, a contestant may win only one of the top three spots.  So if John Doe gets the most number of votes for one of his submissions and the second most for another, he will win only the top prize but not second.  He will of course get $100 for honorable mention.
• The most any one contestant can win is $2,700.

Entries:

• Employee Pay Plan Facebook
• Branding Loveland Facebook
• A Snow Job Facebook
• Transforming Transformer Boxes Facebook
• Padding the Payment Facebook
• Cell Phones and Snacks for Education Facebook
• Grant-Sponsored Goodie Bags Facebook
• One Percent for Art Facebook
• Just Say “No” to Sharpies Facebook
• Cell Phones for Eiber Facebook
• Andy Kerr’s Days Off Facebook

Go Vote.