Voter Protection

Have a Transformative Election Day

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics


Sarah van Gelder

Votekindly.org is not naive about possible voter suppression activities. But they are calling on voters to stand up to these methods -- with clarity and kindness.

Know Your Rights on Election Night

Leslie Griffith | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics


Leslie Griffith

How to make sure your vote is counted. It is up to American citizens to do their own reporting and their own investigations. Here's how to insist on a democratic election by your own means.

Virginia Fever: Easy To Catch

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics


Andrea Chalupa

An important job this year is doing election protection in the Richmond area, where African American voter turnout is expected in record numbers.

Protecting your vote using Net technolgies

Craig Newmark | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home


Craig Newmark

It's better to prevent voting problems than to try to fix them after the fact. I'm not talking about "voter fraud," like where nonexistent humans are...

How Electronic Voting Machines Could Steal Our Democracy

Jonathan Kim | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics


Jonathan Kim

A small number of people could easily program DREs to flip votes, and the evidence of this crime would be safely locked inside the machines.

Obama to Florida: We'll Make Sure Your Vote Will Count

Shawna Vercher | Posted 11.20.2008 | Home


Shawna Vercher

A team of military veterans, state and local government officials, Barack Obama and, less than twenty-four hours after winning game #7 of the American...

Sam Stein

GOP Congressman Jokes About Pro-Obama Vote Suppression

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics


As the McCain campaign and allied Republicans protest loudly over voter registration efforts by groups like ACORN, it is important to note the subtext...

Announcing The Launch Of The Voter Suppression Wiki -- Learn, Report, Act

Baratunde Thurston | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics


Baratunde Thurston

What about the votes that don't count? What about the systematic attempts to erect barriers between voters and the ballot box? What about voter suppression?