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Election Protection Wiki Portal

Welcome to the Election Protection Wiki - "Citizens tracking voter suppression and election integrity."

The Election Protection Wiki is a non-partisan, non-profit collaboration of citizens, activists and researchers to build a one-stop-shop for reports of voter suppression and the systemic threats to election integrity. We collect just the straight facts that are fully referenced to external, verifiable sources, and we need your help.

Things you can do:

Add a report of voter suppression.
Join us at the EP Wiki Google Group
All the things you can do.

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State-by-state information

Select a state below to see its election protection information.
(Red states have most recent or most serious threat and problem reports.)
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Issues and topics

Full index: All EP Wiki articles

Selected issues:

Absentee voting (new article)
ACORN and elections
Election reform proposals (new article)
Electronic voting
Exit polls, Election verification exit poll
Felon disenfranchisement
Films on election issues (new article)
If you are told you cannot vote (new article)
Provisional voting (new article)
Student voting rights
Things citizens can do to monitor elections
Voter caging, Voter roll purges
Voter fraud (new article)
Voter registration How to ensure you're registered to vote (new article)
Voter suppression (new article)

Resources

Election protection and reform organizations
Election protection resources (Includes printable election-day pamphlets, brochures, fliers, etc.)
Full archive of election protection/voter suppression
news reports (see right for current stories)

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Election protection news

Ohio Secretary of State receives death threats for allowing new registrants. (October 22, 2008)

New Jersey Elections Board Says this Election is Too Important to Allow Outside Observers (Oct 21, 2008)

Michigan: GOP admits foreclosure voter suppression scheme. (Oct 20, 2008)

California: voters say they were duped into registering as Republicans. (Oct 18, 2008)

Obama Assembles lawyers to Monitor Election. (Oct 20, 2008)

West Virginia: voters say electronic voting machines changed their votes from Democrats to Republicans (Oct. 18, 2008.)

NJ State Supreme Court hears testimony proving voting machines are easily hacked (Oct. 18, 2008)

Thousands of voters incorrectly rejected from voter rolls. Oct. 18, 2008.

AFL-CIO is working in nine states to educate citizens about voting rights. Oct. 16, 2008.

Obama campaign asks that special prosecutor expand probe to see if the ACORN investigations are related. Talking Points Memo, Oct. 17, 2008.

US Supreme Court sides with Ohio election officials against striking 200,000 from the voting roles.. (Oct. 17, 2008.)

Georgia: Judge won't stop Ga. voter citizenship checks that are called a "systematic purging" of rolls before the election. (Oct. 17, 2008.)

Colorado: Call for demonstrations at Secretary of State's office to protest disenfranchising thousands of voters (SquareState.net. Oct 16, 2008)

Ohio: More than 200,000 registered Ohio voters may be blocked from casting regular ballots because of discrepancy with gov't database. (Oct. 15, 2008)

Ohio: Federal court: Ohio must check voter registrations. (Oct. 14, 2008)

West Virginia: Optical Scan voting machine programming glitch affects ballots statewide. Commissioner blames ES&S mistake. (Oct. 14, 2008)

Indiana: Judge orders expanded early voting to commence in Lake County. (Blue Indiana, Oct. 14, 2008)

Ohio: Ohio sheriff rekindles voter suppression fears. (Oct. 14, 2008)

Ohio: A voting rights organization foresees problems Nov. 4 (Toledo Blade, October 14, 2008)

Michigan: Judge: Michigan illegally purging voters. (Oct. 13, 2008)

Videos from the Ohio Election Protection Conference: (Free Press, October 11, 2008)

Michigan and New Mexico: mass voter roll purges in very poor native New Mexican pueblos and Detroit's "war-zone" (Oct. 11, 2008)

Missouri: St Louis Mailer Causes Absentee Confusion (Oct. 10, 2008.)

New York: Barack 'Osama' on Absentee Ballots Sent to Voters. (The Brad Blog, Oct. 10, 2008.)

Georgia: Lawsuit: Georgia Illegally Purges Votes

Pennsylvania: False flyers aim to intimidate voters (Oct. 9, 2008)

Ohio: Law enforcement seeking records on hundreds of same-day voters. (Oct. 9, 2008)

States’ Voter Roll Purges Appear Illegal (NY Times, Oct. 9, 2008)

Is Colorado the next Florida? (Oct. 7, 2008)

Delayed report on N.J. voting machines' reliability raises concerns. (Oct. 6, 2008)

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Voter Suppression Battle Brewing In Northwest Indiana. (Oct. 4, 2008)

Study Finds States Purging Millions of Voters in Secret, Often Erroneously. (Oct. 1, 2008)

Virginia students protest voting eligibility probe. (Sept. 30, 2008)

South Carolina election officials show a broad misunderstanding of ex-felon voting rules. Sept. 17, 2008. (More on felon disenfranchisement.)

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Other election protection efforts

Other efforts to report on or counteract election threats:

Voter Suppression Wiki - A citizen-led project to coordinate information and activism around any foul play and/or mess ups that might make election '08 less than on the level.

Election Protection - A non-partisan coalition orchestrating the largest voter protection effort ever this election. Election Protection runs the 866-OUR-VOTE hotline for any voting questions or reports of foul play.

TwitterVoteReport - A non-partisan coalition using text-messaging to map what's working, what's not, and what needs to be done at voting sites so everyone can vote, and everyone's vote will count.

See the full list of national election protection and reform organizations or select one of the states from the map at left to see its local election protection and reform groups.

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