1-888-DEM-VOTE is the DNC hotline. Be sure your state parties have it.

[madfloridian]

People need to memorize this. It should be listed prominently.

I checked our state party, and it does not have it listed prominently. I did not even see it mentioned. I checked out county website, it does not have it either.

Check out your state party, make sure they do.

Here is the link:

http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/08/dnc_announces_e.php

"Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean today announced the DNC's expanded national voter protection efforts. In addition to the establishment of a national voter protection hotline and the placement of election protection staff in 15 key states, the DNC is implementing a comprehensive series of efforts aimed at helping Americans register to vote, learn how and where to cast their ballot, and provide assistance in overcoming Republican-led efforts to suppress voter turnout for the November elections.

These voter protection initiatives are part of Governor Dean's unprecedented investment in Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts for the 2006 elections. Under his leadership, the DNC has committed $12 million to help elect Democrats at every level in 38 states across America--roughly 10 times the hard money the DNC spent four years ago for coordinated campaigns.

The DNC's new national hotline, 1-888-DEM-VOTE, builds on the tremendous success of the toll-free number established in March 2006 by the DNC Voting Rights Institute to provide information about how and where displaced New Orleans residents could vote and to help Indiana voters disenfranchised by the Republican voter ID law passed by Indiana Republicans. It will provide critical assistance to voters all across the country, including in key electoral targets and in states facing Republican challenges to the right to vote by providing poll location information, assistance in applying for absentee ballots, and help reporting voting problems before, during, and after Election Day.

Across America, voters have confronted a dizzying array of Republican-led challenges to the right to vote. These include discriminatory voter ID laws in states like Indiana, Georgia, Ohio and Missouri; irresponsible voter registration rules in Ohio and Florida; inappropriate purges of voter lists in states like Indiana and Florida; the use of faulty election machines and inadequate machine maintenance that fail to protect the integrity of the vote; a criminal phone jamming scheme in New Hampshire; and discrepancies in election day practices that disproportionately effect rural, elderly, poor, minority, and student voters."

[kestrel91316]

1. They DO realize that on election night the RW will be doing another

phone jamming operation to clog this and other critical lines of communication, don't they?

Hope they have contingency plans.............

[madfloridian]

2. They can not phone jam everywhere.

I refuse to be so negative. I think it is harmful. We have to try.

[kestrel91316]

5. I'm not saying "don't try". I'm just saying we should put nothing past

these people. They have proven that no trick is too dirty for them to pull.

[shance]

3. This is good. Glad to see this.

Glad to see this being done.

[madfloridian]

4. It's been there for a while. Just not being put at state sites.

It should be at every state website, every precinct or county website.

[madfloridian]

6. It's now at the bottom right of the Florida party site.

It is right under the Florida Democratic Lawyer's Council button.

I did a rough search of some other state sites and don't see anything.

http://www.fladems.com/