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by: Living Liberally
Wed Sep 10, 2008 at 13:15
Drinking Liberally Shot of Truth by Justin Krebs
What if I told you there was a way you could ensure voting rights on election day?
You might say, "Sure I know about Election Protection and being a poll-watcher."
What if I told you that you wouldn't be a watcher -- but could protect votes from the inside?
You might look at me funny.
What if I told you that you could get paid?
If we've got your interest, it's time you become a Pollworker for Democracy.
Our friends at CREDO have done it again: taken a simple idea, created a straightforward program, and made it easy for people to make a difference.
You know those impossibly ancient people that populate polling sites across America? Well, thank god for them -- because without pollworkers, we wouldn't have elections. That said, let's be kind to them -- let them retire! And the only way to do that is to take their spot.
In many states, the Boards of Elections are still in need of pollworkers. They pay you for your day's labors, and in many cases feed you. And they entrust you with the keys to the automobile of democracy. That means that you get to verify a person's right to vote; you get to proactively offer provisional ballots; and you get to be the point-person for irregularities.
Let's be clear: you are not the watcher voicing an objections -- you are the operator making sure shit works.
If you can keep lines moving, keep counts honest, keep people enfranchised, and keep right-wing efforts to suppress and intimidate out of your polling stations, then you will have spent November 4th wisely.
So sign on up -- and somebody you can be the impossibly ancient pollworker who knows that for decades you made our democracy work.
Here's the site:
http://act.credoaction.com/event/events/index.html?id=&action_id=11&rc=dl
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