Sunday, January 13, 2008

VotePoke: Keep Your Right to Vote

How do you KNOW you are registered to vote?

You voted last year, huh? Well so what. The Republican Party worked very hard to throw thousands of validly registered voters off the rolls in 2004 and 2006. They'll try again in 2008, you can bet on it!

But - you can fight back by checking your voter registration online at http://votepoke.org

Voter registrations are PUBLIC information. The GOP uses this information to match again lists of voters who are likely to vote Democratic, and then submit forms swearing that they know those voters don't live at that address - usually committing perjury the process, but they haven't been prosecuted. See http://projectvote.org/issues/voter-caging.html

The 1st thing to do is to confirm you're still registered at your home address (or change your registration to match your home address): http://votepoke.org

The next thing is to pass this information to people who you think would find it interesting. Regardless of political affiliation, all American citizens have the right to vote!

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