Action memo from No More Stolen Elections

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This news today: State officials in Texas and Iowa threatened to arrest UN election observers. The Romney campaign is sending out 34,000 volunteers in swing states on Election Day with smartphone technology to instantly flag "voter fraud" activity for their attorneys. The Obama campaign has its own teams monitoring polling locations. The Republican National Committee issued a call for the recalibration of electronic voting machines in six states on Election Day. Here's the question. Who can be absolutely counted on to protect the voting rights of American citizens. Republican election officials? The Romney campaign? The Obama campaign? The Republican party? The United Nations? The answer is: You. The voter.  If you see a voting rights violation, report it immediately at  NoMoreStolenElections.org Our special software gives the public real time information allows us to rapidly respond to problems and write a post-election report. No More Stolen Elections! is not the only effort watchdogging the election. But we are an independent, non-partisan campaign that relies on you to file your  reports to make the difference. Here is the other part of the picture. It is vital that people everywhere organize and plan on attending Voter Assemblies in their communities on the day after the election (that's next Wednesday). Voter Assemblies are easy to organize, even if you have never done activism before.  Voter Assemblies empower voters to speak out against unjust election practices and to push forward with election reforms that end election fraud - both structural and blatant. Voter Assemblies allow people to sidestep the mainstream media's blackout on election integrity issues and connect with others in our communities who share the same concerns about free and equal elections.  We will help you do it, just send us an email or join our nationwide conference call this Sunday, November 4, 2012 - 3:00pm PT / 6:00pm ET On the call you'll learn about what you can do to protect against election fraud on November 6, 2012, and how to organize a Voter Assembly in your community. Click here for conference call sign-up. With the clock ticking, every hour brings new reports of serious voting rights violations. We can't wait. Act now. Remember: Sign the  Pledge of Action and forward it to everyone you know. Donate to our Rapid Response Fund. Organize a  Voter Assembly in your community for Nov 7th, the day after the election. Report election irregularities and voter suppression. Yours for Democracy,    ~ Adam, Jolie and Sarah for No More Stolen Elections! Report all election violations and share with everyone you know. Please donate to our Rapid Response Fund. Like us on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. P.O. Box 260217 | Madison, WI 53726-0217 US

No More Stolen Elections

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Over the course of the next few days Liberty Tree's No More Stolen Elections! campaign will be sending out a series of action alerts, updates, and tomorrow, a request for financial support.  Additionally, this week our Wisconsin Wave project and the Hand Count Votes Now Coalition will be releasing their final report with results from the citizen audit of Wisconsin's recall election. We recognize how busy you are, and in normal times, we would not send out this many requests. But these are not normal times, and future generations will be counting on every one of us to do everything we can to expand democracy and defend voting rights in the final days of the 2012 election cycle.  American democracy is in crisis. The election of November 6th, 2012, is just one week away, and certain aspects of that election are already perfectly clear.  Millions of Americans may be denied their inalienable right to vote. Millions more will be denied the right to vote for the candidate of their choice. And the vast majority of Americans will have their votes tabulated by unverifable electronic voting machines.  Meanwhile, the power of a tiny, wealthy minority is greater than ever, causing private campaign funding to reach previously unimaginable levels and making this the most expensive election in U.S. history. We need you to act now in two important ways: 1) Read and sign the pledge pledge of action and forward it on everyone you know. 2) Organize a voter assembly in your community for the day after the election and post it here.   No matter what happens Tuesday, we will be ready on Wednesday to take action. This is the fifth No More Stolen Elections! mobilization.  Because we were prepared in 2004, there was a Presidential recount in Ohio, and because we were prepared in 2011, there was a recount in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. The lesson is simple: be prepared, alert, and ready to act. Sign the pledge of action today.  Please accept my personal pledge of non-violent action to prevent another stolen election: "I remember Florida 2000, Ohio 2004, and Wisconsin 2011, and I am willing to take action this year if the right to free and fair elections is denied again. I support efforts to protect the right to vote leading up to and on Election Day.  If necessary, I pledge to join nationwide pro-democracy protests starting on the next day, either in my community, in key states where fraud occurred, or in Washington, D.C., and if necessary, to demand a recount, investigation, and criminal prosecutions of those responsible. I pledge: No More Stolen Elections!" Join Noam Chomsky, Thom Hartmann, Tom Hayden, Jill Stein, Medea Benjamin, Rocky Anderson, Daniel Ellsberg, and Margaret Flowers and many others in signing this pledge. Sign the pledge of action today.  Thank you for your support. In solidarity with those protecting the vote everywhere, Ben Manski Adam Porton Jolie Lizotte Sarah Manski Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! P.O. Box 260217 | Madison, WI 53726-0217 US

Ohio Republicans send voters wrong election date, voting location

Last week, the Republican-run Ottawa County Board of Elections sent a mailer to 2,300 voters in three northwestern Ohio precincts informing them that Election Day was November 8. It is, of course, November 6. Further, voters were told in the mailer their voting location had been moved to a building on the east side of Danbury High School. Unfortunately, the actual voting location is on the west side of the high school. These are the sorts of obstacles we face getting Democratic voters to the polls in Ohio, and it's why we have to go all-in to make sure Democratic voter turnout efforts in this must-win swing state are as effective as possible. To help out, at Daily Kos we've placed the biggest and best Democratic voter turnout efforts in Ohio on a single Act Blue page: President Obama's reelection campaign, Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown's reelection campaign, Democratic U.S. Rep. Betty Sutton's reelecton campaign, and Workers' Voice, the union-backed Democratic voter turnout program in Ohio. Please contribute $3 to each of these Democratic candidates and voter turnout programs in the all-important swing state of Ohio. Keep fighting, Meteor Blades, Daily Kos P.S. If you can't make a contribution, or if you would like to do more than just contribute, please sign up with Workers' Voice to make phone calls to help get Democratic voters to the polls.

Website for attorneys, paralegals, & law students to help with voter protection

If you're an attorney, paralegal, or law student who wants to help prevent the GOP's stealing the 2012 presidential election, here's the place to sign up: https://my.barackobama.com/page/s/join-the-victory-counsel

"Romney-linked voting machine company to count votes in Ohio" ~ Salon Magazine

From Salon Magazine:

The company counting critical votes in Ohio and Colorado has extensive connections to the Romney camp

By Craig Unger

Voting machine provider Hart Intercivic will be counting the votes in various counties in the crucial swing states of Ohio and Colorado and elsewhere throughout the country come Nov. 6 — even though it has extensive corporate ties to the Mitt Romney camp, and even though a study commissioned by the state of Ohio has labeled its voting system a “failure” when it comes to protecting the integrity of elections.

Reports of Hart Intercivic’s ties to Romney first surfaced in late September, in a blog post by Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis in the Free Press, an Ohio website that reported that a key investor in Hart was HIG Capital, seven of whose directors were former employees of Bain & Co., a consulting company of which Mitt Romney was once CEO. (Romney left the company in 1984 to co-found a spinoff company, Bain Capital.) HIG Capital announced its investment in Hart on July 6, 2011, just one month after Romney formally announced the launch of his presidential campaign.

Nor were those the only ties between Hart and the Romney camp.....

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It's come to this: international monitors needed for US elections

Republican attempts to reduce voter turnout in minority neighborhoods are so widespread that, at the request of American civil rights groups, international monitors will oversee our elections: United Nations-affiliated election monitors from Europe and central Asia will be at polling places around the U.S. looking for voter suppression activities by conservative groups, a concern raised by civil rights groups during a meeting this week.[...] The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a United Nations partner on democratization and human rights projects, will deploy 44 observers from its human rights office around the country on Election Day to monitor an array of activities, including potential disputes at polling places. It's part of a broader observation mission that will send out an additional 80 to 90 members of parliament from nearly 30 countries. Liberal-leaning civil rights groups met with representatives from the OSCE this week to raise their fears about what they say are systematic efforts to suppress minority voters likely to vote for President Obama. The election is going to come down to a battle between Democratic voter turnout efforts and Republican voter suppression efforts. At Daily Kos, we have made it easier to win this battle by putting the two largest Democratic voter turnout operations—President Obama's reelection campaign and the union-backed Workers' Voice—on a single Act Blue page. Please help get Democrats to the polls, and make sure their votes count, by contributing $3 each to President Obama and Workers' Voice. Keep fighting, Chris Bowers Campaign Director, Daily Kos

"My father's vote was just stolen in Ohio" -- reprint from Democratic Underground

The following is reprinted from this post at Democratic Underground:

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My Father's vote was just stolen in Ohio...

My father had a stroke a few years ago, and he has trouble reading. He votes absentee, so my mother can help him with the ballot. Well, he sent in his ballot a couple weeks ago, and he did EVERYTHING as instructed. Everything was signed, documented, etc. Proper postage and everything.

Yesterday, he got a letter from the Butler County board of elections saying something was not up to snuff with his ballot, and he had to provide one of the following blah blah blah. One of the choices is his drivers license number, which he already included on the absentee ballot. It says he has to deliver it by hand to their office and his deadline is November 16th.

So basically they're only gonna count it as a provisional ballot. What really happened is they opened his ballot, and saw that he voted for Obama, and now they're not going to count it. I don't know who to contact. I'm so pissed I can't see straight.

Original post at Democratic Underground