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Change: impact, and soimpact. ifIf you're a voter who's got a little extra time to help out by spreading the word to your friends, family, and colleagues -- or an activist, journalist, or blogger -- we hope you'll get involved and help protect voting rights acrossfor America."everybody."
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Change: By working with highly-connected people online and then using traditional communication mechanisms to reach into at-risk communities, more Americans will have an opportunity to cast
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Change: Renamed from Workshop media release (draft) by Oct 30 2008, 3:14 PM EDT for: final version. (i hope)
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Change: to protect their votes because they are anticipating problems. The good news is that voters seem to have gotten the message about how important early voting is. Unfortunately, though, many voters still don't know what they can do if they're faced with a problem voting at the polls." Low-tech
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Change: Blend,Blend, one of the major hubs of the black blogosphere. There are also major opportunities for synergy between various online activism efforts, for example arming participants in citizen journalism projects like Twitter Vote Report and Video the Vote with the one-page summary information,
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Change: Wiki,Wiki, with a goal of "concrete, actionable ideas that can make a difference in the short time between now and election day". Roughly 30
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Change: or check back at our Media Room at http://www.votersuppression.net/page/Media+room For more informationThe full report is available at http://www.votersuppression.net/page/Workshop+ReportAudio clips of additional discussions of the report and the broader grassroots election protection and citizen journalism movements are available at http://www.votersuppression.net/page/Last-minute+strategy+roundtable. Visit our Media Room at http://www.votersuppression.net/page/Media+room About
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Change: ; audio clips of additional discussions of the report and the broader grassroots election protection and citizen journalism movements are available at http://www.votersuppression.net/page/Last-minute+strategy+roundtable.###The Voter Suppression Wiki is planning a followup call on Monday, November 3.3. To stay informed about this
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Change: have come together with and Voter Suppression Wiki, and we're just one of many organizations working in this space. There are still incredible opportunities to
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Change: get the wordshare outinformation about these one-pagers in time for people to distribute thesethe summary documents at their churches over the weekend and offices on Monday, we'll reach voters who might not otherwise know what to do if they -- or theretheir friends and
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Change: The not so good news isUnfortunately, thatthough, many voters still do notdon't know what they can do if they arethey're faced with a problem voting at the polls." Low-tech community-focused and word-of-mouth activities are likely to be
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Change: hereThere are also major opportunities for synergy between various online activism efforts, for example arming participants in citizen journalism projects like Twitter Vote Report and Video the Vote with the one-page summary information, and encouraging them to sign
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Change: and technologies to help bring to life the honored privilege of the right to vote and to make a difference."Rather than simply making people feel frustrated and disheartened about the challenge, the Voter Suppression
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Change: bloggersbloggers, community organizers, media professionals, technologists, and voting rights activists have issued a report with several last-minute recommendations to reduce voter suppression in the upcoming US Election. Some of the most siginificant opportunities involve increasing awareness of
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Change: Harry Waisbren, a Campus Progress representative at the University of Wisconsin, emphasizes that "these new tools provide activists, especially the more tech savvy student activists, with the remarkable ability to discover and prevent voter suppression while it is occurring by receiving directions from the web or their cell phones." Additional
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Change: with more details are available here.FOR RELEASE Thursday, October 30, 2008, 9 a.m.CONTACT: Baratunde Thurston, Jack and Jill Politics, jackturnerpolitics-at-gmail-dot-comTracy Viselli, Reno and Its Discontents, tracy@renofabulousmedia.comJon Pincus, Liminal States, jon {at} achangeiscoming {dot} net Voter Suppression Wiki workshop highlights last-minute opportunities
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