Cut the pre-emptive whining and do something - DAMN IT!

[Jcrowley]

IndyOp put this up here and deserves full credit:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2574147&mesg_id=2574157

Evidently he/she did not put up this excellent port on it's own, two of us asked that it be done, and if he/she wants to do so I would gladly pull this one. The information here is valuable and to have this in one place until and during the election is very helpful.

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 /

Voter Alert Line
1-866-MY-VOTE1
Voters will be able to call 1-866-MY-VOTE1 to report problems at the polls or to find out their voting location. Callers will be transferred to their local election board help line and MyVote1 will track whether their call was answered. Hopkins graduate students will be analyzing call patterns. MyVote1 is funded by the Carnegie Corporation and is supported by a consortium of non-partisan advocacy groups and academic institutions, including the Fels Institute, Common Cause, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, the Service Employees International Union, the Reform Institute and We Care America. NBC News is the project's promotional partner. Real-time analysis of the 2006 election will be broadcast exclusively by NBC News, Telemundo and MSNBC.com.

In 2004, the MyVote1 hotline received more than 200,000 calls; provided information about more than 100,000 polling locations; transferred 96,000 calls to local boards of Election; and recorded more than 55,000 voter complaints. An additional 3 million hits were received on the poll locator website, www.mypollingplace.com . In comparison, the Federal Election Assistance Commission hotline only received 700 calls, none of which was recorded. Following the election, the Fels Institute released the "MyVote1 National Election Report: Voice of the Electorate 2004," the first data report of its kind in election history.

During the 2004 Election, MSNBC had an interactive map online that showed the problems reported to the hotline state-by-state. The Voting Problems webpage at MSNBC is at: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4999529 /

(The MY VOTE line sounds virtually identical to the 1-888-DEM-VOTE line).

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.


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 /

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


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.

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