Protecting the Vote: What to Look For, What You Can Do

Harvey Wasserman, a wonderful writer and activist from Ohio who I had the opportunity to work with some years back, made the following statement preceding an interesting talk in Ohio entitled The History of Stolen Elections where he covers 200 years of American voting history in 20 minutes:

The one thing that the American people can say about George W. Bush is that we have never elected him president of the United States.
--Harvey Wasserman

With the situation in a number of states poised to poison our next election, you might find this site not only instructive on the issue, but there is a state-by-state map of the current conditions where problems are known to exist currently, and a way to report abnormalities in your state (click on the link in the first sentence of text to take you to the map).

Current abnormalities are documented in:
Arizona
Colorado
Florida
Michigan
Missouri
Ohio
Wisconsin
Pennsylvania

If you are a political blogger or a blogger interested in election integrity and/or voter suppression in the United States, please link to this post or to the site itself. This is the only site attempting to consolidate information and act on it.

We know the vote was stolen from Gore in 2000. We know the vote was stolen from Kerry in 2004.

We cannot and must not let this happen again.

More Campaign News for Today

1. Palin refuses to release e-mails. Wah! Read it here.

2. Wisconsin article covers McCain's campaign efforts to steal votes through errors. Finally! Not just happening here, either. It's going on in at least four other states (notably all of them are key battleground states). Read here.

That has caused consternation of the part of vote

rs around the state. "They're trying to knock me off the rolls," says Beverly Jambois, of Middleton, who complained after she got one of the McCain mailings. "I can't tell you how upsetting it is to me. This is how (McCain tries to) win elections? By disenfranchising voters?"

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And coming at the same time that Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, a McCain campaign co-chair, launched an aggressive new effort to purge voting rolls, this development is deeply unsettling.

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The McCain camp has created serious concerns for Wisconsin voters. Those voters will not be able to trust the Republican nominee or his party unless those concerns are addressed quickly and completely.

3. One minute video from our guy Joe on the campaign trail in Michigan... get em Joe!

4. Obama was in Colorado (so was McCain's liar). Here is a yet unreleased add on John McCain opposing equal wages for woman.

Watch it here.