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Action Alert #2: Prepare for election day
What you can do, starting today
- Know your polling place, check your registration and know your rights. GoVote.org has a simple online system, and Voters Unite has a state-by-state list of how to check that you're registered. Make sure to have their 1-866-OUR-VOTE and 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA hotline numbers with you when you go to vote. The Election Protection coalition's Elections 101 page is a good place to go to start learning more about your rights -- and YES! magazine has put together a 12 step guide to safeguarding your vote.
- Spread the word. Make sure our friends and family have double-checked their registration and know where they're voting. Share this page and other resources with your friends. If you're a blogger or journalist, write about voter suppression and the grassroots election protection movement -- and let your readers know what they can do about it.
- Get involved. Introduce yourself and help out with the Voter Suppression Wiki, sign up for CREDO Action's Immediate Response Network, help with Twitter Vote Report, or join in one of the many other great projects working to bring "one person one vote" closer to reality.
- Recommendations for elections officials, Election Protection, Poll Workers, and Voters.
Specific Action Campaigns Underway
- Progressive Future - Get Their Hands Off Our Votes Petition
"We'll send the petition to the chairs of the Democratic and Republican parties in every state. It's our way of telling them: We're watching. We're spreading the word. And we're not going to let you get away with it."
- Steal Back Your Vote - a new voter guide from journalist Greg Palast
Know Your Rights in PA VIDEO
- Be a sweeper for the Twitter Vote Report
- Twitter will be collecting reports from the polls that will be aggregated and mapped so that we can "see" voting problems around the country in real-time. They have tried to make it very easy for voters to submit reports, but it's possible that submissions will be made incorrectly. To ensure that everyone's voice is heard, they've created a way to clean up their reports so that they can be added to the pool of usable data. This is the job of "sweepers" on election day, and I couldn't encourage you enough to sign up and help them out as they are still in need of volunteers!
- If you have any questions or already know that you would like to sign up, please email lead sweeper Matt Cooperrider at mattcooperrider@gmail.com,
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| Anonymous | Cellphone Based Shennanigan Detection System | 1 | Oct 27 2008, 11:05 PM EDT by JonPincus | ||
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Thread started: Oct 27 2008, 10:25 PM EDT
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I had a goofy idea in the shower this morning. It's not perfect, but hear me out.
I do not trust the touch screen voting machines with no paper trail in my area. I thought of taking a picture of myself touching said screen with my cellphone to properly document by vote. What if someone set up a site, not unlike this one, with a special email or phone number that people can send such pictures to? Problems: A) people sending in more than one picture: solution, count by unique cellphone number B) loss of anonymity: nobody forces anyone to do this, it's not part of the official system. you choose to loose a certain amount of anonymity by using the service, but also provide a verifiable (within reason) record of your vote C) polling places not allowing phones C is the biggest problem I can think of. If widely adopted, a system like this could be a meaningful tool in detecting large scale vote suppression, in terms of vote-flipping and other shenannigans. Just a thought. I don't have the resources or time to follow through on a project like this. perhaps someone else who reads this site does? |
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| SuznAZ | No More Stolen Elections reports not enough machines in swing states | 0 | Oct 22 2008, 2:48 PM EDT by SuznAZ | ||
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Thread started: Oct 22 2008, 2:48 PM EDT
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They wrote: "Well, it's happening again. A recent report indicated that college-age and African American precincts in Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia will not have sufficient numbers of voting machines or election staff to handle the number of voters expected on Election Day."
The link below leads to an editable form email to be sent to the powers that be. If you're in one of those states, call your election offices and demand more machines! http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=240643009&u=2545435 |
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| Hwaisbren | Source Watch | 0 | Oct 16 2008, 9:00 PM EDT by Hwaisbren | ||
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Thread started: Oct 16 2008, 9:00 PM EDT
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I saw Source Watch listed as a partner in one of Jon Pincus's posts about this effort, but was curious what their role specifically is? I am meeting with Source Watch's creator, John Stauber of the Center for Media and Democracy, this coming week, and would very much like to engage him in this project as much as possible. He is extremely well respected in Madison, WI, and he could be a particularly integral ally to reach out to the massive Madison based activist community for this project. Plus, he already has a stable of new media activists from his own wiki-campaigns like Source Watch and Congresspedia, so he should be able to reach out to many new media and wiki savvy activists for this effort.
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