USA Today has a front page article on the various efforts by political groups - both partisan and non-partisan - to protect votes this election cycle.
According to the article:
The Justice Department will dispatch more than 800 observers, a record for a non-presidential election year, to look for evidence of discrimination, intimidation and other obstacles to voter accessibility in at least 20 states.
We hope, of course, that they won't be needed. But realistically, Tuesday will come and there will be instances of voter intimidation and discrimination, on top of voting machine malfunction and pollworker mistakes.
And that's why we're going to be there, with the 1-866-My-Vote-1 phone line, where voters can call in to get information on where to vote, and to report any problems they encountered at the polls. In 2004, 1-866-My-Vote-1 logged several tens of thousands of calls, enabling us to pinpoint the hot spots and identify problems almost as they happened.
This Tuesday, we'll be there again.
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