What are YOU doing to protect the vote? We CAN make a big difference!

[IndyOp]

THE election will not be stolen. Why? There isn't ONE election -- elections are held at the county level and there are over 9,000 counties in the U.S. using different voting systems and different procedures and different teams to accomplish the work.

THERE WILL BE SOME ELECTIONS STOLEN.

How many? That depends on us.

What will you do to protect your local elections?


Spread the word about...

Election Protection Hotline
1-866-OUR-VOTE / 1-866-687-8683
1-(888) VeY-Vota / 1-[phone] para la ayuda en español

Calls to 866-OUR-VOTE will be logged in the Election Incident Reporting System (EIRS). The EIRS is a project of the Verified Voting Foundation, in cooperation with other Election Protection Coalition member organizations, including the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and People for the American Way Foundation. Trained volunteers will staff the Hotline providing immediate, state specific, assistance to callers. Call center operators will inform voters and solve problems on issues such as voter identification requirements, voting machine malfunctions, problems at the polling place, and voter intimidation. Following the 2004 election, the Election Protection Coalition released "Shattering the Myth: An Initial Snapshot of Voter. Disenfranchisement in the 2004 Elections."

Voter complaints from the 2004 and 2005 Elections appear now on the Election Incident Reporting System at http://voteprotect.org/

Two other voter hotlines: 1-866-MyVote1 and 1-888-DEM-VOTE are available and they will help voters, but they will not release information about the number and nature of the problems on the ground on election day to citizens & activists who want to muster a quick response. 1-866-MyVote1 is sponsored by non-partisan groups including Common Cause, and grad students at Johns Hopkins will be analyzing patterns of problems in the incoming calls, and MSNBC and Telemundo will be reporting them. 1-888-DEM-VOTE is obviously the Democratic Party system and reports from the toll free line will most likely be sent to teams on the ground across the U.S.


Voter Action E-Voting Hotline
1-888-SAV-VOTE
This hotline is set up to collect information about problems with e-voting or e-poll books - the information will be fed into a centralized database which will also incorporate listings from the EIRS, Verified Voting's Election Transparency Project and Video the Vote. Voter Action's Hotline is supporting Verified Voting's Election Transparency Project.


For citizens, pollworkers & activists:

Watch the Vote
http://www.watchthevote.org /
Watch the Vote is a national outreach campaign to encourage citizens to engage in the most important aspect of our democratic process - the right to vote and have that vote counted.

Pollworkers For Democracy
http://www.pollworkersfordemocracy.org /
Reports from pollworkers and pollwatchers will be entered into the Election Incident Reporting System database.

Video the Vote
http://www.videothevote.org /
Starting this election, citizen journalists—people like you and I—will document problems as they occur. We'll play them online, spread word through blogs and partner websites, doing our part to make sure the full story of our elections is told.

Election Protection Strike Force
Election Fraud Hotline 1-888-VOTETIP
http://www.velvetrevolution.us/electionstrikeforce/

Working Assets
http://www.workingassets.com/election_protection.cfm
We'll text you on election day if there's an urgent issue where your participation -- such as a phone call or carefully-targeted local action -- can make a big difference.

Verified Voting Election Transparency Project
https://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/article.php?id...
Election Transparency – fill our survey forms about your county’s actions.
Gathering info for best practices

Election Defense Alliance
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org /
Independent exit polls, poll closing data collection, etc

Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://www.eff.org/Activism/E-voting/protection.php
Electronic Voting Machine Quick Reference Guides - 2006

[RiverStone]

1. Appreciate your optimism! Yes, we won't get ripped off again. One more link to add:

http://coalition4visibleballots.homestead.com/EVENTS_NOV_2006.html

[riona]

2. Thanks

:kick:

[madfloridian]

3. Why are you guys not posting the one for the DNC? 1-888-Dem-Vote

DNC voting assistance page.

http://www.dnc.org/a/national/election_reform/voting_rights/vri/

In fact I posted this because some people were saying NOT to call the DNC.

I want to know why.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/539

How can they answer to the media if no one gives them the info.

At least list the number among the others.

[IndyOp]

5. I do have the DEM number in my OP...

With the following information in my original post:

Two other voter hotlines: 1-866-MyVote1 and 1-888-DEM-VOTE are available and they will help voters, but they will not release information about the number and nature of the problems on the ground on election day to citizens & activists who want to muster a quick response. 1-866-MyVote1 is sponsored by non-partisan groups including Common Cause, and grad students at Johns Hopkins will be analyzing patterns of problems in the incoming calls, and MSNBC and Telemundo will be reporting them. 1-888-DEM-VOTE is obviously the Democratic Party system and reports from the toll free line will most likely be sent to teams on the ground across the U.S.

1-888-DEM-VOTE will make a major positive impact on citizens getting to vote and on the Democratic Party's ability to take action to make sure the votes are counted. I am torn because I want an organization that both helps citizens vote and creates a lasting record available to voting rights activist groups like mine ( http://www.verifythevote.org ).

Why? We need to know what problems are cropping up where to get citizens to take action! If the Dems would create a database like the Election Incident Reporting System then I would list it in bold, too...

Election Incident Reporting System - 2004 & 2005 data
https://voteprotect.org/index.php?display=EIRMapNation

Election Incident Reporting System - Very new database
http://eirs.cs.net:8080/EIRS_WEB/Map/begin.do

[BelgianMadCow]

4. Awesome link list. K&R

not doing muc myself, not being a voter and all. But I AM concerned, and try to keep the relevant ACTION threads kicked at DU.

[texpatriot2004]

6. K & R for Transparent Democracy nm

[IndyOp]

7. Kick & Rec! We all hang together or we hang separately.