Grassroots election protection initiatives


Ways that you can get involved in helping safeguard our voting rights this election

  • CREDO Action's Immediate Response Network: a text-activist response network to deliver a text message straight to your phone
  • Election Defense Alliance: a national citizen movement to expose electoral fraud and establish electoral integrity; see their Election Day Action Plan for what you can do on November 4.
  • Election Protection (1-866-OUR-VOTE/1-888-VE-Y-VOTA): if you are an attorney, law student, or paralegal, we need your help to protect the right to vote. We're recruiting legal volunteers to staff Election Protection Hotlines across the country and work on the ground as mobile legal volunteers.
  • Pollworkers for Democracy: an effort to recruit, train, and network citizen pollworkers for the November 4, 2008 election and beyond. 12,507 and counting!
  • SourceWatch's Election Protection wiki: a non-partisan, non-profit collaboration of citizens, activists and researchers to build a one-stop-shop for reports of voter suppression and the systemic threats to election integrity
  • Voter Suppression Wiki: learn, report, ACT!
  • Wake up and save your country's Count me in! voter guide: a comprehensive and really fabulous looking guide to voting and then making sure your vote counts.

Citizen journalism, election documentation and monitoring (alphabetical order):
  • Black Box Voting: election watchdog group focusing on voting machine malfunctions and mischief.
  • CNN Voter Irregularities Map: calls from the CNN Voter Hotline (1-877-GOCNN-08)
  • Community Values Vote: Election news from grassroots organizations
  • Huffington Post's Share your voting experiences form. The best stories will be published in On The Ground 2008.
  • My Fair Election: Report your polling station's condition on Election Day as part of a crowd-sourced map of electoral conditions across the United States.
  • The New York Times Polling Place Photo Project: a nationwide experiment in citizen journalism that encourages voters to capture, post and share photographs of this general election.
  • No Voter Left Behind.net, because an election is a terrible thing to steal. Use their one-point Theft Reporting System or volunteer to help.
  • Our Vote Live: The official site documenting the groundbreaking voter assistance work of the Election Protection Coalition. Here, you can review in real-time reports of voter assistance calls made to 866-OUR-VOTE, Election Protection's toll-free hotline.
  • StopPoliticalCalls.org's Twitter Robocall Tracker: an unscientific survey of who is receiving robocalls and what those robocalls are saying.
  • Twitter Vote Report: share your voting experiences and help get problems fixed in real-time on or before Election Day
  • The UpTake: a non-partisan video citizen-journalism site, partnered with Video the Vote. Our Vote Chasers project encourages volunteers to use video camera phones (iPhone, Nokia N95, etc.) to document election abuses and stream footage live to the web in realtime.
  • Video the Vote: national initiative to protect voting rights by monitoring the electoral process. We organize citizen journalists—ordinary folks like you and me—to document election problems as they occur
  • YouTube's Video Your Vote: a non-partisan program produced in partnership with PBS, encourages American voters to document their experiences at the polls on Election Day, and is also a one-stop-shop to view exclusive videos from voter registration experts, election reform activists, and state officials, as well as video footage from the PBS archives for a historical look at voting through the years.
  • VoterStory '08: collect and classify voter complaints in real time across the Internet and provide a data feed of complaints that can be addressed in real time by Voter Protection groups who partner with VoterStory; a nice embeddable widget to put on a web site.
  • Wired's Problem Reporting page: Had a problem casting your ballot in this year's general election? We want to hear from you. Wired.com has created a map to track your issues, but we need your help to complete it. Web- and email-access.
  • Work the Vote LA: with incident reporting forms for the Los Angeles area.



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