With hundreds of millions going to the various political campaigns, virtually nothing is going to many of our hardest-working election integrity organizations (especially at the STATE and LOCAL level) who have been fighting for this issue daily for years now.
These are the people who have been doing the day-to-day education, about the paperless electronic voting machines, the lack of audits, the voter caging. These groups are doing their best to get the word out so that more and more people learn that there is even a problem. These are the people who have been fighting for better choices on the county and state level when it comes to our voting systems. These are the people who have been collecting data, and doing on-the-ground research.And these are the groups and people who will be expected to jump in if another election "goes goofy" and the politicians fold their tents for fear of being labeled a sore loser. Only by then it will be too late, again.
At a time when we should be strong and prepared, many of our best state and local election integrity organizations are struggling to hang on, while (again) hundreds of millions are being donated to others.
And just few thousand could mean the difference between life and death for some of these best groups. For example one of my local groups in PA needs just $2000 to continue their ongoing project of citizen exit polls for the general election this year. But $2000 is very hard to raise in rural Pennsylvania.
So again -- when donating to the candidates (or big national advocacy campaigns) please, PLEASE throw a few bucks also to the Election Integrity group of your choice.
Do this now. So you won't have to next December.
Marybeth
http://www.VotePA.us 
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