Watch the Vote 2008
Voter Action conducted a pilot Watch the Vote Program for the Indiana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Maryland presidential primaries of 2008 in preparation for our overall election monitoring work in the November election.
CALL 1-866-MY VOTE 1 to document your voting experience.
The information we receive contributes to our election protection work by allowing us to identify, document, report and address important voting issues.
Learn more about the Indiana Primary here
Learn more about the North Carolina Primary here
Learn more about the Pennsylvania Primary here
Learn more about the Maryland Primary here
PRIMARY REPORTS:
View a press release on reports from the North Carolina Primary here
View a press release on reports from the Indiana Primary here
View "Tale of Two Counties" press release here
Listen to audio from voters who called into the MyVote1 hotline here
There is one true antidote to help ensure that our elections properly function: citizen-led oversight of elections processes.
Overview
Voter Action’s Watch the Vote Program engages in oversight and monitoring of elections with state and national partner organizations. Through Watch the Vote, we provide voters with the tools and legal support necessary to “take back” our public elections processes by monitoring Election Day, as well as the systems and processes that record and tabulate votes and provide - or deny- access to the ballot. This includes auditing election results at the precinct and county levels, monitoring the voter registration databases, and tracking electronic poll book usage and testing.
History
In the early fall of 2006, Voter Action created a pilot program – Watch the Vote – which partnered with Verified Voting, Poll Workers for Democracy, Electronic Frontier Foundation, VoteTrust USA and Voters Unite to assist in a new type of election monitoring. Through a Voter-Action-trained, attorney-staffed hotline, we created education and outreach opportunities with national election monitoring and state based organizations, concerned citizens and poll workers.
See results of the 2006 program, based on post-election data gathered through our hotline and nationwide, citizen-led oversight activities in our co-published and comprehensive report: E-Voting in the 2006 Mid-Terms.
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Protect the primary, protect November.
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