1 – Sign the Pledge of Action.

This is your first step. When you sign the Pledge of Action, you not only join thousands of other defenders of democracy, you subscribe to our alert list, ensuring that in the days leading up to and beyond Election Day, you get our complete reports, right away.

2 – Defend voting rights in advance of Election Day. Make plans to assemble on the day after the elections.

Next, watch for and respond to the Take Action alerts in your email and on this website. Make plans to hold a local voters assembly in your community on afternoon after the elections. Please let us know your plans for the location and time of the assembly as soon as possible so that we can help get the word out.

3 – On Election Day, November 4th, vote, and make sure your vote is counted.

Make sure you not only go to the polls to vote, but that nothing and nobody -- not lines, not broken machines, not ballot shortages, not anything 00 prevents you from exercising your voting rights. If you run in to difficulties in voting, or witness other people's voting rights being violated, please let us know.

4 – On the next morning, November 5th, stay tuned for our complete reports.

Keep an eye on this website and on your email for regular and complete reports drafted by leading voting rights experts. We will give you the best information available as to the level of voting rights violations in this election. We will also make recommendations for action.

5 – That same afternoon, gather at your local public assembly, consider the news, and take the appropriate action.

We can hope that the 2008 elections will be determined by the will of the people, not fraud, but we know that one thing is certain: The defense of voting rights in the following days and weeks will depend on us, our friends, and our neighbors.

If, as was the case in Florida 2000, the level of voting rights violations rises to election theft, we will act to prevent this from happening – pressing to prevent the theft and, if that is impossible, demanding a new honest election.

If it is at first unclear whether voting rights violations rise to the level fo election theft, as was the case in Ohio 2004, we will mobilize everywhere to demand a full and complete count of the vote.

If, instead, the election result was defined by the rigging of the process, but not deliberate fraud, we will rally nationwide to press for progress in enacting democratic reforms.