Action alert from Ben at True Majority

Nine states nationwide are at “high risk” for voting rights violations such as excluding registered voters from casting their ballots.
Your state is not one of nine that are considered high risk, but you can still take action to help ensure that all legitimate votes are counted.
A coalition of groups is training volunteers to be Election Day “poll watchers” who will go to polling places, monitor what takes place there, and educate voters about their rights.
Traveling to another state is a huge ask, but making sure they don’t steal this election is that important. I get that this isn’t for everybody, but thousands of people are going to take up the challenge.
To participate, you’d need to vote early by absentee ballot and then fly or drive to your assigned polling place in another state for monitoring on Election Day. If you are an attorney, you may be able to staff the election fraud hotline set up to jump on problems as volunteers identify them.
To volunteer or learn more, visit www.electionprotection.org.
TrueMajority.org is teaming up with our friends at Working Assets, People for the American Way Foundation, and the Election Protection Coalition to put together this program that will work.
Yours in making sure every vote is counted,
Ben


There’s a long history of antidemocratic forces interfering with voters’ right to cast ballots. Here’s the kind of stuff that Election Protection volunteers will be taking action to prevent:

This summer, Representative John Pappageorge (R-Troy) of Michigan was quoted in the Detroit Free Press as saying, "If we do not suppress the Detroit vote, we're going to have a tough time in this election." African Americans comprise 83 percent of Detroit's population.

In South Dakota's June 2004 primary, Native American voters were prevented from voting after they were challenged to provide photo IDs, which they were not required to present under state or federal law.

Earlier this year in Texas, a local district attorney claimed that students at a majority black college were not eligible to vote in the county where the college is located. It happened in Waller County—the same county where 26 years earlier, a federal court order was required to prevent discrimination against the college's students.

In Kentucky in July 2004, Black Republican officials joined to ask their state GOP party chairman to renounce plans to place "vote challengers" in African American precincts during the coming elections.

In 2003 in Philadelphia, voters in African American areas were systematically challenged by men carrying clipboards and driving a fleet of some 300 sedans with magnetic signs designed to look like law enforcement insignia.

In 2002 in Louisiana, flyers were distributed in African American communities telling voters they could go to the polls on Tuesday, December 10—three days after a Senate runoff election was actually held.

In 1998 in South Carolina, a state representative mailed 3,000 brochures to African American neighborhoods claiming that law enforcement agents would be "working" the election and warning voters that "this election is not worth going to jail."