The Voter Suppression Wiki is a non-partisan hub of information and action around efforts to suppress votes in the 2008 U.S. elections. In the last week of the election, our focus is on

• providing information and recommendations to media and activists to help get the word out more effectively about what voters can do to protect their voting rights
  
• making information available to voters that will help them vote successfully -- and help other voters
  
• providing detailed information about incidents of voter suppression via our Incident Tracker
• partnering with Twitter Vote Report and CREDO Action's Immediate Response Network for reporting and response to election protection information on election day

Media releases, action alerts, blog posts

• Media release: Prepare for election day (November 3)
  
• Media release from the Workshop on Last-minute strategies to reduce voter suppression (October 30)
  
• Last-minute strategy roundtable media call, with audio clips on topics such as reaching at-risk communities (October 29)
  
• Workshop report, with recommendations
• Action alert #1: Confusing ballots in North Carolina
• Voter Suppression Action Alert in North Carolina, Tracy Viselli's action alert post on Reno and Its Discontents
• Announcing The Launch Of The Voter Suppression Wiki - Learn, Report, Act, Baratunde Thurston's launch post on Jack and Jill Politics
• A wiki, saving democracy?, Jon Pincus' launch post on Liminal States and Pam's House Blend

Additoinal blog posts by Voter Suppression Wiki members are on our blogging about VSWiki page.

Members' first-person experiences with voter suppression

• Dropped from the rolls, LindaCA
• 18,000 ballots not delivered in Denver, Tommytoons
• District of Columbia absentee ballots not recieved, BlackWomenInEurope
• Chicago workers thought I should vote provisional due to their error, Anonymous
• Brewster County (TX) voting issues -- AGAIN, Anonymous

Resources for media and bloggers

We recommend that blogs and other online media sites prominently feature election protection information such as hotline numbers, links to sites where users can check their polling places, and election protection videos. This section also includes links to PSAs for television, radio, and print.

• Sample HTML code to include non-partisan election protection information on your site
• Election Protection's YouTube channel, a good source for high-quality videos
• New America Media's Voter education PSAs (available in multiple languages with state-specific information)

Selected coverage of the Voter Suppression Wiki

• Citizens, Media Use Social Media to Monitor Election, Simon Jones, Media Shift
• Txt the Vote: Election Protection Goes High Tech, Caitlin Johnson, OneWorld/Yahoo News!
  
• Casting A Ballot, And A Wary Eye, Noam Cohen, New York Times
• Voter Suppression Hits the Web, David Herbert, National Journal
• Voting activists fight voter suppression with wiki, Linnie Rawlinson, CNN's In the Field
• New wiki aims to blunt voter suppression in presidential election, Heather Havenstein, Computerworld
• Voter Suppression 'Wiki' Created to Track New, Incoming GOP Assaults on Democracy, Brad Friedman, The BRAD BLOG
• Pass On the Voter Suppression Wiki, Maegan Carberry, also featured on Wilshire & Washington -- podcast here
• Voter suppression wiki launched, Maegan la Mala, Vivir Latino
• Voter Suppression Wiki launches, Shai Sachs, myDD

Contact information

• Baratunde Thurston,jackturnerpolitics-at-gmail-dot-com Baratunde is co-founder of Jack and Jill Politics and created the Voter Suppression Wiki.
  
• Jon Pincus, Liminal States, jon {at} achangeiscoming {dot} net Jon is co-author of Tales from the net and the vice-chair for online visibility of the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference, and has been leading the creation of the Wiki and organizing the Workshop
  
• Tracy Viselli tracy@renofabulousmedia.com Tracy is founder of Reno and Its Discontents and has been leading the Voter Suppression Wiki's media outreach.
• Andrea Price, indyaccess {at} gmail.com Andrea is President and Chairperson of the Board at Public Access for Indianapolis, and has been working on local communication strategies including PSA distribution, and leading outreach to the Indianapolis community
  
• Harry Waisbren, hwaisbren {at} gmail.com Harry is the Campus Progress representative in Madison, and has been focusing on mobilizing students as well as leading our Madison-area outreach