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Based on the recommendations of leading voting integrity advocates, the staff at YES! put together simple ways you can protect your own vote and the fairness of the system.
| Safeguard the Vote
:: VOTE and make them count your vote. |
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 12 Ways You Can Safeguard the Vote Read our checklist for protecting your vote in this election. DOWNLOAD PDF :: FORWARD EMAIL |
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VOTE :: And make sure your vote is counted.
 Are you registered? Check at www.CanIVote.org or see the Legal Guide for Student Voters. Can you vote early? Where is your polling place? |
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 Practice Voting Voting on an electronic voting machine can be confusing. Verified Voting's map shows what voting equipment you'll be voting on, and the organization is preparing video tutorials for each voting machine. Avoid Straight Party Voting |
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 Document and Report Call 1-866-OUR-VOTE to report any problems you witness. Video the election process in your community and upload your footage for the world to see at www.videothevote.org Twitter about your voting experience @votereport. Publish to the Election Protection Wiki, a one-stop shop for reports of voter suppression. |
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Don't just go home, if you or others have problems with the machines. Stay at the polling place, so that if your numbers grow, the media will see you. |
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ACT :: Help protect the integrity of the vote in our elections.
 Be a Poll Worker Protect democracy and get paid—sign up to work the polls on Election Day. You can do so at Pollworkers for Democracy. |
 Be a Poll Watcher Join a poll watching group of the party of your choice or create your own with this poll watching guide. |
 Mandatory Election Audits Help make routine audits mandatory and divorced from political considerations. Find out more at electionaudits.org. |
 Vote Trust USA Stay informed about voting integrity issues with rapid updates from this national organization working for election reform. |
 Verified Voting Help turn the whole map green with two basic laws: voter-verified paper records and mandatory manual audits of those records. |
 Brennan Center for Justice Bad ballots don't just happen—they're designed. Learn more at the Better Ballots Action Project. |
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Hit Play to watch the We've got the Power segment. |
Live From Main Street offers a virtual town hall meeting on voting issues:
As Goes Ohio: Voter suppression and protection in Ohio and other battleground states. The Battle for the Vote: The fight to register voters in battleground states. High Tech Voting: Technology for a clean election, and how you can be prepared on election day. We've got the Power: Latest efforts to combat voter disenfranchisement, voting machine fraud, and how not to get turned away at the polls. |
LEARN MORE :: What are the threats to our elections—and what are the solutions?
 How to Stop the Rigging of Election ’08 by Sarah van Gelder The ACORN issue is a smokescreen designed to cover the much more serious issue of voter suppression, aimed at poor and minority neighborhoods, and young people. |
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 Ten Swing States in '08 by Common Cause and the Century Foundation A close look at voting preparedness in 10 swing states. Common Cause has launched a Protect the Vote campaign based on the findings of this report. |
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 Protecting the Vote by Laura Flanders Election protection and voting rights should be central to any conversation about the '08 vote. |
 How the GOP Wired Ohio's 2004 Vote Count for Bush to Win by Stephen Rosenfeld What are the risks of vote manipulation in the transmission from voter precinct to secretaries of state? |
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 How Safe Is Your Ballot? by Greg Palast In the 2004 election, more than 3 million ballots were never counted. Palast explains where they went. :: More investigative reporting on voting problems at gregpalast.com |
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 Safeguarding the Vote by Doug Pibel Computer professionals were already sounding the alarm in 2003: paperless voting may result in massive error, fraud, or worse. |
 What Americans Want :: Election Reform by Sarah van Gelder 66% of Americans believe intentional acts are likely to cause significant voting machine errors. |
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 Getting Corporations Out of Government and Elections by Charlie Cray 7 hot spots where activists are getting corporations out of government and elections. |
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 Instant Runoff Success by Elle McPherson Instant runoff elects Vermont mayor. :: more Instant Runoff Voting |
 Backing the Popular Vote by Noah Grant A movement makes the popular vote decisive, rather than the Electoral College vote. |
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 Vote Hope 2008 Mark Ritchie by Sarah van Gelder Where are the opportunities for real change in the 2008 election? MN Secretary of State Mark Ritchie on Election Reform. |
 Vote Hope 2008 Rev. Lennox Yearwood by Sarah van Gelder The vote of the dream generation. Rev. Yearwood and the Hip Hop Caucus.  Listen to the interview |
