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Groups Launch 'Real-Time' Election Protection Web Site
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society —
... Another Web site to monitor voting obstacles, glitches and other problems for voters was launched by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Election Protection Coalition. The Web site, OurVoteLive.org, was developed to “help ensure that (1) the Election Protection Coalition could rapidly and efficiently assist voters in real-time, and (2) that the general public could monitor the health of the electoral system during the 2008 presidential election.” Yale Law School professor Heather K. Gerken ...
Over 80,000 Have Complained About Voting Problems
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... Today, Barbara Anwine of the Election Protection Coalition (1-866-OUR-VOTE), a nonpartisan group, told MSNBC about voter suppression tactics they have witnessed around the country. ...
Over 80,000 Have Complained About Voting Problems
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Today, Barbara Anwine of the Election Protection Coalition (1-866-OUR-VOTE), a nonpartisan group, told MSNBC about voter suppression tactics they have witnessed around the country. ...
MOJO VIDEO: Inside a National Election Hotline Call Center
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
... , is hosting the nation's premier voter hotline — 1-866-OUR-VOTE. Yesterday, I visited the org's national command center in downtown Washington DC, where trained volunteers were handling phone calls by the thousands from voters seeking information or reporting problems. As you can see on Election Protection's online database of voter reports, the volunteers received more than 10,000 calls by 9:20 am today. A new report is added every few seconds, in real time. ...
Voting Problems: The Election Protection Coalition's Widget
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
The Election Protection Coalition is providing voter assistance throughout the day across America. Check out the widget below, courtesy of Ourvotelive.org, to track the group's ongoing reporting of voter problems. ...
Voting Problems: The Election Protection Coalition's Widget
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
The Election Protection Coalition is providing voter assistance throughout the day across America. Check out the widget below, courtesy of Ourvotelive.org, to track the group's ongoing reporting of voter problems. ...
11:00 am Update
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
Long lines everywhere; rain in Northern Virginia; sporadic voting machine problems -- to be expected. Follow voting problems here. Follow vote fraud reports here. Watch RockTheVote's live phonebanking here. ** In Cuyahoga County, only two percent of poll workers were no-shows. That's a vast improvement over last cycles. ** In Cheasapeake, VA, ballots were too wet to be cast. ** Some problems are being reported with the phone number that Barack Obama's campaign is using to report voting problems. ((877-572-6226) ...
Coalition Fields Vast Team To Help Voters
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society —
... a senior attorney with one of the coalition’s members, the Advancement Project, is one of an “army” of attorneys ready to help out voters nationwide. Westfall and the scores of other election-protection attorneys “will field a projected 200,000 calls on a nationwide hot line from 32 call centers, mostly staffed by lawyers volunteers and located at 40 private law firms,” McCarthy reported.
The Election Protection Project is also hosting a Web site, OurVoteLive.org, where voting obstacles can be reported in ...
