Is this good or bad? It sounds good.

[lonestarnot]

Thanks to all of you who, over the past several weeks, have generously contributed to our election protection efforts. With your support, Voter Action filed a federal lawsuit today on behalf the NAACP and voter plaintiffs in Pennsylvania.

The lawsuit, filed with our co-counsel, Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady and the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, seeks to prevent the disenfranchisement of countless voters by ensuring that emergency paper ballots be distributed to voters when 50% or more voting machines break down at any polling location in Pennsylvania.

The origins of this lawsuit date back to the Pennsylvania primary this past April and our Watch the Vote election monitoring effort. A significant number of calls (listen to a sample here) into the 1-866-MY-VOTE-1 hotline during the primary described how voting machines were failing, causing long lines to form and blocking people from exercising their right to vote, particularly in African American communities.

Voter Action and its partners, including the NAACP National Voter Fund, are continuing to monitor the InfoVoter Technologies database, fed by the 1-866-MY-VOTE-1 and now the CNN hotline (1-877-GO-CNN-08). Both hotlines are available to voters 24 hours a day in English and Spanish. This week has brought even more calls from early voting sites reporting problems. Among the reports, votes are flipping from one candidate to another on electronic voting machines, candidates are not appearing on some voting screens, and voters are being unlawfully scrubbed from voter rolls.

As the case filed in Pennsylvania illustrates, we believe in taking action to reclaim our democracy; a democracy that is led by and for the voters- not private interests.

We can only do this work with the support of people like you. Will you continue to support these efforts? Please make a tax deductible donation today.

As Voter Action board member and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta says, "Sí-Se Puede!"

And, be sure to tune into Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! Friday October 24, 2008, live at 8 am EST, or on the web thereafter. Voter Action's Legal Director John Bonifaz will be a featured guest.

For democracy,
Holly Jacobson, Director and Co-Founder

[lonestarnot]

1. kick

[dorkulon]

2. Good. The PA Sec. of State has said that voting sites need not distribute paper ballots...

...unless ALL of the machines stop working. Even one machine breaking down can lead to lines around the block. So yes, good.

[lonestarnot]

3. That was my impression, but so much shit, I can't keep up!