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What every voter needs to know : Useful info
Your right to vote : Useful info about what to do when there is a problem voting (2006)
Voting : helpful info about voting and problems at the polls
County Election Offices : 50 state links
Election rules and deadlines : 50 state links
Election Divisions and Election Codes : 50 state links
Secretaries of State : 50 state links
Voting equipment across the country : Searchable database
Help for overseas voters

Find Your Polling Place

Because there are thousands upon thousands of polling places, information from the web pages listed below may not be up-to-date. Your best resource is to call your county elections office.

Google Maps
www.GoVote.org
www.Vote411.org

Voting Hotlines

866-OUR-VOTE, 866-687-8683 for help with voting problems (866OurVote.org, Español, Live feed of reports)
877 US-4-OBAMA, 877-874-6226

Voting Incident Websites

Election Monitoring

Election Verification Exit Poll
Citizens' Election Verification Poll
BlackBoxVoting's Citizen Tool Kits
Election Protection Wiki
Video The Vote
Monitor Local Elections and Procedures
Monitoring Electronic Voting Systems in California (v 2.2, 10/08) : MS Word
Sample poll watching form for LA but helpful anywhere : PDF
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What You Can Do

No Voter Left Behind.net
Get Active, Get Active Index (Stealing America the Movie)
Election Day Action Plan (Election Defense Alliance)
What You Can Do To Defend Election 08 (Election Defense Allinace)

Wikipedia Articles

Voting, Voter Suppression, Electoral Fraud, Caging, Provisional Ballot, Ballot Stuffing, More Articles ...

Recent Articles

Avoid the 'Straight Party' vote stealing trap (Black Box Voting)

Reports are coming in from various states that straight party voters will not have the presidential vote counted.

Straight-Ticket Voting States (National Conference of State Legislatures)
Potential Problems at the Polls (Time Magazine)

"the most successful democracy in human history has yet to figure out how to conduct a proper election" :
Voter suppression (Election Protection Wiki)

Methods of voter suppression :
1. Jim Crow laws
2. Felon disenfranchisement
3. Voter roll purges
4. Vote caging
5. Partisan election administration
6. Inequality in Election Day resources
Block The Vote by Robert Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast (PDF, 1 MB)

The recently enacted barriers thrown up to deter voters include : (page 3)
1. Obstructing Voter-Registration Drives
2. Demanding "Perfect Matches"
3. Purging Legitimate Voters From the Rolls
4. Requiring Unnecessary Voter ID's
5. Rejecting "Spoiled" Ballots
6. Challenging "Provisional" Ballots
Ten ways the GOP is now stealing the Ohio vote

Here are some of the key factors that still endanger the vote in Ohio and around the nation :
1. Illegal Destruction of Evidence Surrounding the Vote Count
2. Massive Residual Elimination of Registered Voters
3. Renewed Attempts to Eliminate Additional Registered Voters
4. Resisting Universal Access to Absentee Ballots While Re-Introducing Chaos
5. (2 part item includes above)
6. Resisting Same-Day Registration and Voting
7. The Persistent Spread of Electronic Voting Machines
8. Residual Chaos From Precinct Elimination and Manipulation
9. Data Mining
10. Expanded Voter Identification Requirements
U.S. Election Problems May Affect Nov. 4 Election Outcomes (Kathy Dopp)

Recent news articles have reported (10/29/08):
1. Tens of Thousands of Eligible Voters Purged from Electronic State Voter Rolls
2. Purged Voters Must Use Provisional Ballots That Are Not Necessarily Counted
3. Electronic Pollbook Problems Prevent Voters from Voting, or Force Voters to Use Provisional Ballots
4. Straight Ticket Voting Causes Vote-Flipping & Undervotes
5. Discernible Touch-screen Vote Flipping
6. Indiscernible Vote-Flipping
7. Voting Machines Not Working
8. Voter Intimidation & Dirty Tricks
9. Unequal Allocation of Voting Resources

Electoral College Map

Electoral College Map, www.Pollster.com, October 30, 2008

Please note the "272 Strong" number in the upper right corner of the map. Even if Senator McCain sweeps all seven yellow states, and sweeps all four light blue states, Senator Obama's 272 "strong" votes win the election.

Probability Charts

The charts below show that the odds are very heavily in favor or Senator Obama. He has a "Win Percentage" of better than 25 to 1. Conclusion : if Senator McCain somehow wins the election on November 4, it was stolen.