Help fight election theft by being a Poll Worker -- Pollworkers for Democracy

[flamingdem]

http://act.credoaction.com/pollworkers/index.html

http://www.pollworkersfordemocracy.org

* NOTE: their website is slow today... no doubt they are popular after Palin's speech

Pollworkers for Democracy is an effort to recruit, train, and network 5,000 citizen pollworkers for the November 4, 2008 election and beyond. Official pollworkers have a vital role in running fair, accountable elections in which all eligible voters are able to cast their ballots and have them counted.


Update: New Voter ID laws increase need for qualified pollworkers

On April 28th, the Supreme Court upheld Indiana's strict voter ID law, which requires all voters to present photo ID at the polls. This has opened the floodgates for other states to implement their own stringent laws. If voters don't present the correct ID, they will have to vote provisionally, which greatly increases the likelihood that their votes won't be counted at all. So who makes the decisions about which voters get to vote on Election Day and which have to vote provisionally.

[NMDemDist2]

1. if you work for any government they will give you the time off, no problem

I work the polls and it's easy.

when I worked the primary (Dem or Rep ballots available based on your registration) I was happy to explain to the Republican man with the gun on his belt (a law enforcement officer of some kind) why it was illegal and against the Constitution to demand a photo ID to vote.

he was pissed and then embarrassed as I explained the whole "poll tax" concept to him in the sweetest and most conciliatory tones possible in from of a large Lunch time crowd.


:evilgrin:

[flamingdem]

2. Are you in Arizona? The Arizona Transparency Project looks interesting

http://www.alternet.org/democracy/92366/?page=entire&ses=43da1a7d441cc25377984e10107d6aba

[NMDemDist2]

4. nope, NM now n/t

[flamingdem]

5. How is the get out the Latino vote campaign going there?

And the registration drive? Any obvious signs of that?


Here in California we are phone banking to New Mexico.

[NMDemDist2]

6. here in the SE of NM we have a VERY active hispanic voting community

I live in the reddest part of the state

[flamingdem]

7. The hispanics are going to swing several states, whew!

McCain is doing exactly nothing for them..

[flamingdem]

3. Also check out Grep Palast and Robert Kennedy Jr.'s investigation into voter roll fraud

http://www.gregpalast.com/robert-kennedy-greg-palast-the-final-investigation/

One million Democrats attempting to vote in this year’s primaries found their names missing from voter rolls. WHERE THE HELL DID THEY GO?

Law professor Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and journalist Greg Palast are launching an investigation. We want to know: where are these votes? Who swiped them? How? And how do we prevent it from happening in November?