2006 Voter Protection & Election Monitoring activities
Use this listing as a resource to find out what non-partisan groups around the country are doing in preparation for the upcoming elections.
National efforts
Common Cause - MyVote1
Common Cause is joining with other members of the nonpartisan MYVOTE1 consortium to publicize the voter hotline. When voters call the toll free 1-866-MY-VOTE-1 number, they are able to locate their polling place, leave a recording about a voting problem they are experiencing, or be connected to their local elections officials.
Pollworkers for Democracy
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Pollworkers for Democracy urges anyone who's not nailed down to pledge, right now, to work the polls with us this November.
Because you – the informed, the concerned, the online – are needed in the front row seats on Election Day. You'll be helping voters, assisting elections officials, taking firsthand notes, and leaving with a new understanding of American elections.
Visit Pollworkers for Democracy.
VoteTrustUSA
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Help every eligible voter cast a ballot that counts on November 7, and get paid by your county. Through "Pollworkers for Democracy," VoteTrustUSA and partner organizations are helping concerned citizens become informed election workers in polling places nationwide. We'll provide you with information, supplementary training and a national reporting system to report election problems.
Contact: Joan Krawitz, Executive Director VoteTrustUSA, 1-800-253-1767
Email: jkrawitz@votetrustusa.org
Election Protection
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Election Protection, the nation's largest non-partisan voter protection coalition, is led by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the NAACP, the National Bar Association, and People For the American Way Foundation. Through our national voter assistance hotline, 866-OUR-VOTE, and legal and field programs in targeted locations, Election Protection helps ensure that all eligible voters have the opportunity to cast a meaningful ballot.
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
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The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will monitor poll sites and conduct multilingual exit polls in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Illinois, and Pennsylvania, where there has been a history of discrimination against Asian American voters. On Election Day, call 800.966.5946 to report incidents of anti-Asian voter discrimination.
Visit the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
Vote Count Protection Project
The Vote Count Protection Project is a non-partisan, nonprofit initiative to monitor vote counting. We are conducting independent public exit polls, as well as forensic analysis on election data. We have tools for volunteers anywhere in the United States to conduct exit polls and collect data where they live.
Phone: (215) 715-3479
Visit the Vote Count Protection Project.
Election Protection 365
Election Protection 365, a coalition led by People For the American Way Foundation, the NAACP, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, is the nation’s most far-reaching nonpartisan effort to protect voter rights, working year-round to remove obstacles to the ballot box and ensure that every voter is able to cast a vote that will count. We work with election officials to eliminate barriers to the ballot box, file lawsuits to challenge election laws and procedures that would lead to voter disenfranchisement, have lawyers ready to go into court on Election Day for any necessary legal intervention, provide direct assistance to voters, document election problems and abuses, and push for reforms in election administration.
Contact: Nikki Hadder at nhadder@pfaw.org or (202) 467-4999.
Visit Election Protection 365.
Video the Vote
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Video the Vote is a virtual team of everyday Americans dispatched to capture election problems as they happen. All you need is a video camera, cell phone, and the ability to get to a problem polling place on Election Day. No camera? You can still volunteer to help with logistics. Join today.
Verified Voting Foundation - Election Transparency Project
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Our goal is to secure trustworthy elections in the U.S. To do that, we need as many witnesses present for as many steps in the electoral process as possible. Please sign up via our web site to collect information before, on, and after Election Day. The evidence you gather will be the springboard for future reform. We're counting on you.
Contact: (415) 487-2255 or observer@verifiedvoting.org.
Visit the Verified Voting Foundation.
Velvet Revolution - Election Protection Strike Force
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Visit the Velvet Revolution Election Protection Strike Force.
ACLU
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The ACLU Voting Rights Project and various ACLU state affiliates will monitor polling sites and respond to incidents of voter intimidation, vote suppression or election irregularities. Voters with complaints should call the organization's toll-free voter hotline: 1-877-523-2792, from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. (EST) on Election Day, Tues. Nov. 7.
Local Efforts
Committee of Seventy
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The Committee of Seventy, Philadelphia’s leading non-partisan political watchdog organization since 1904, is now recruiting volunteers for help in our office and in the field on Election Day. For more information or to register please see our website at www.seventy.org, or contact Liz Brown at ebrown@seventy.org or (215) 557-3600 ext. 112.
Visit the Committee of Seventy.
League of Women Voters of New Orleans
The League of Women Voters of New Orleans has a candidate information internet website at www.lwvno.org. It contains the candidates for the Congressional races for District 1 and 2. It also has the information on the candidates that won in the September 30th election and the spring elections. The bios and answers to questions by the winning candidates are being archived on the website so they can be referenced by the citizens and the media in the future. This site also contains election information for Orleans Parish.
Visit the League of Women Voters of New Orleans.
Fair Vote Colorado
Fair Vote Colorado is a statewide non partisan voter assistance project and is not affiliated with any party, candidate or ballot issue. Fair Vote can answer all questions about voting about polling location, voter registration absentee ballots and more through a toll free "vote-line" at 1-888-839-4301, or online.
Coalition for Voting Integrity
The Coalition for Voting Integrity is adjacent to Philadelphia. There is a close, critical election here in the 8th Congressional District, in Bucks County, PA. On Election Day, CVI is collecting data and obtaining voter feedback. We need additional volunteers to distribute voting machine instructions and travel throughout County as observers, if problems arise.
Contact: Ruth at VotingIntegrity@aol.com or (267) 250-2879