1. Print out election protection documents on Friday and Saturday, at work (unless you'd get fired) and at home (if you have a fast printer): My Vote, My Right state-by-state voter bill of rights fliers,  Election Protection and Ya es hora more detailed state-by-state legal information, and/or some of the other information linked to in this post.  Don't be greedy and hog the printer.  Let your colleagues protect their votes too.

   
2. Give them away and discuss with friends, family, fellow canvassers and phonebankers, and at places of worship over the weekend ...

   
3. Print out some more on Monday

   
4. Take them to the polls

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On Thursday Jack and Jill Politics announced the launch of the Voter Suppression Wiki, complete with an intro video from Baratunde Thurston (who used to co-host Drinking Liberally with me):

The goal of the wiki is simple: to document and expose reported cases of voter suppression, whether they be targeted at veterans, students, folks on foreclosure lists, or otherwise.  The wiki also includes an action center to help activists get involved in preventing voter suppression.  Anyone can register and contribute to the wiki - in fact, I did just that Friday morning, adding a link to Pollworkers for Democracy to the action center page.

As a brief aside - I think Pollworkers for Democracy is an extraordinary idea.  But I wonder if there are other, similar activities which could supplement poll-working, would be less demanding than an all-day job, and still be useful in preventing voter abuse.  To take a simple example, what if every precinct had someone whose job it was to get in line exactly when the polls closed, and could somehow prove it?  In a precinct with long lines, that person could help ensure that everyone in front of him or her would get to vote - or testify in front of a judge, if it came to that.  This kind of job could even be done by a campaign's GOTV volunteers, since GOTV usually is over about 30 minutes or so before the polls close.

In any case, kudos to Jack and Jill, as well as others involved in helping set up the wiki, including Jon Pincus.  This is a great resource for pulling together all of the sundry voter suppression efforts going on across the country, and for helping activists fight back.

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Yesterday Jack and Jill Politics announced the launch of the Voter Suppression Wiki, complete with an intro video from Baratunde Thurston (who used to co-host Drinking Liberally with me):

The goal of the wiki is simple: to document and expose reported cases of voter suppression, whether they be targeted at veterans, students, folks on foreclosure lists, or otherwise.  The wiki also includes an action center to help activists get involved in preventing voter suppression.  Anyone can register and contribute to the wiki - in fact, I did just that this morning, adding a link to Pollworkers for Democracy to the action center page.

Kudos to Jack and Jill, as well as others involved in helping set up the wiki, including Jon Pincus.  This is a great resource for pulling together all of the sundry voter suppression efforts going on across the country, and for helping activists fight back.

There's more...

Yesterday Jack and Jill Politics announced the launch of the Voter Suppression Wiki, complete with an intro video from Baratunde Thurston (who used to co-host Drinking Liberally with me):

The goal of the wiki is simple: to document and expose reported cases of voter suppression, whether they be targeted at veterans, students, folks on foreclosure lists, or otherwise.  The wiki also includes an action center to help activists get involved in preventing voter suppression.  Anyone can register and contribute to the wiki - in fact, I did just that this morning, adding a link to Pollworkers for Democracy to the action center page.

Kudos to Jack and Jill, as well as others involved in helping set up the wiki, including Jon Pincus.  This is a great resource for pulling together all of the sundry voter suppression effort going on across the country, and for helping activists fight back.

There's more...

Under the old, "broadcast" model of journalism and academia, undergraduate students were generally limited to consuming the scholarship of others while their own research and writing was largely confined to practice exercises. Now Congresspedia is engaging students in the new, participatory model of media and society by publishing their writing on the wiki rather than having it collect dust in a file drawer somewhere. As part of this project (our Student Editor Program, I met last week with the students of Prof. Phil Tajitsu Nash's Asian Pacific Americans and American Public Policy class at the University of Maryland. Prof. Nash's students are engaged in a fascinating research project on the movement for redress for Japanese Latin Americans who were put in internment camps during World War II. Despite enduring similar conditions to US-based Japanese Americans, they were exempted from the redress bill President Reagan signed in the 1980s.

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