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Areas of Focus
Look here for news, events, action alerts, publications and talks, all organized by area of focus.
Stolen Elections
The big picture: When vote suppression, election manipulation, and misinformation add up to a stolen election.
Shortages at the Polls
Election authorities violate our equal protection rights when voters in poor areas are turned away from the polls due to long lines, broken machines, and shortages of ballots and election workers.
Vote Suppression
All about the organized efforts to keep qualified voters from voting.
Voting Machines
Problems with voting machines remain widespread, including equipment malfunction, shortages, hacking, and non-verifiability.
Counts & Recounts
The ability to accurately count the votes, and to conduct a full and accurate recount if necessary, is a hallmark of any genuine democracy.
Election Officials
Voters rightfully question the sanctity of the vote when those responsible for running elections are themselves partisans of specific candidates or political parties.
Polls & Media Coverage
While polling organizations and the media sometimes provide a check on election fraud, they often make things worse by calling elections before the votes have been counted or by under-reporting large constituencies.
Ballot Access
The right to vote includes the right to vote for, and hear from, the candidate or issue of one's choice.
Election Reform
The voting rights movement is winning important victories across the country.
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No More Stolen Elections
Creative Copyright 2005
Creative Copyright 2005
It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once.
~ Thomas Paine
~ Thomas Paine