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Be Vigilant. Be Active. Call It In.
Daily Kos —
... through, use this online form and/or call your local campaign HQ. Alternately, or in addition, I strongly encourage you to call Election Protection, a nonpartisan organization: For immediate assistance, call the 866-OUR-VOTE hotline. To report problems to Election Protection’s state teams through Twitter, use these guidelines. Track incident reports received through the hotline at OurVoteLive.org Keep an eye on voting issues as they are reported at the OurVoteLive ...
Election Protection: Make Sure Your Vote Counts
Firedoglake —
... to the Election Protection hotline. Write this information down, just in case you or someone you know needs it:
• For immediate assistance, call the nonpartisan 1-866-OUR-VOTE hotline. • To report problems to Election Protection’s state teams through Twitter, use these guidelines.
Also, these resources will allow anyone to track Election Protection's breaking news as it happens on Election Day:
• OurVoteLive.org (http://OurVoteLive.org) – A live map and full database of all the reports received through the ...
Tracking Voting Problems--OurVoteLive Blogs Problems All Day
Open Left - Front Page —
The Our Vote Live is the place to go for info about voting problems. Built with the assistance of the Electronic Freedom Foundation it documents the groundbreaking voter assistance work of the Election Protection Coalition in real time. You can report problems by calling Election Protection's toll-free hotline, 866-OUR-VOTE. They recoded over 40,000 incidents before today, and have already recorded more than 10,000 incidents today.
Highlights are recorded on their blog. Incidents can also be tracked through their map interface. They also have a ...
Don't forget to vote! It only takes a couple of hours! (And your vote might not be counted....)
Classical Values —
Don't forget to vote! It only takes a couple of hours! (And your vote might not be counted....) What a coincidence that I titled that last post " Never has arrived ," because I just expended nearly two hours voting. The actual time from arriving at my polling place to finally voting was one hour and ten minutes. Huge lines were compounded by incredible pollworker ineptitude, but the biggest problem was that each voter of all of the hundreds there were forced to stand in a long line after marking their ballots and wait to feed each ballot into a single "Accu-Vote" machine. (Yes, that's all there was. One ...
Voter Protection Resources
TalkLeft —
Voters must know where to turn to if their right to vote is being hampered or outright denied on Tuesday or if they need any assistance: For immediate assistance, call the nonpartisan 866-OUR-VOTE hotline To report problems to Election Protection’s state teams through Twitter, use these guidelines. These resources track breaking news as it happens on Election Day: OurVoteLive.org – A live map and full database of all the reports received through the hotline OurVoteLive ...
Be vigilant.
Daily Kos —
... you're seeing. If you can't get through, use this online form and/or call your local campaign HQ. You can also call Election Protection, a nonpartisan organization: For immediate assistance, call the 866-OUR-VOTE hotline. To report problems to Election Protection’s state teams through Twitter, use these guidelines. Track incident reports received through the hotline at OurVoteLive.org Keep an eye on voting issues as they are reported at the OurVoteLive ...
Glitch round-up
Ben Smith's Blog —
Reports from around the country indicate that lines are long, but there's no indication so far that there are any systemic problems.
Election Protection received reports of mis-matched voter logs in Kansas City that have been fixed.
Drudge and Fox are pushing footage of "Black Panthers" intimidating voters in Philadelphia.
In Chesterfield County, VA, wet ballots jammed some of the machines.
NBC News is reporting on confusing ballots in Palm Beach County.
And ourvotelive.org is keeping track of voter problems. Please email other ...
California's Prop 8: Too Close To Call!
The BRAD BLOG —
California's proposition 8 currently has more "yes" (to discrimination) votes than "no" votes tallied, 52.2% to 47.8%, according to California Secretary of State Debra Bowen's website. This represents a difference of 434,830 votes. But according to the No on 8 campaign, three to four million votes remain uncounted.
The uncounted ballots for the initiative, which would eliminate the right to same sex marriage through an amendment to California's Constitution, are largely provisional ballots and vote-by-mail ballots. There may also be ballots uncounted due to machine ...
Machine Problems Worsened 2008 Voting Woes
The BRAD BLOG —
Guest blogged by Steven Rosenfeld of AlterNet
The electronic voting problems in the 2008 election are broader than recently-publicized snafus such as machines not turning on, voter databases omitting names, or touch screens not properly recording votes, according to an analysis of 1,700 incident reports from the nation's largest voter hotline.
Moreover, the voting machine issues and the confusion they caused among poll workers appear to have compounded the delays faced by untold thousands of voters this fall, a preliminary analysis of 1-800-OUR-VOTE reports by Joseph Lorenzo Hall, a ...
