Practical Kindness: Vote Kindly and Help Others Vote
Click here to comment on and share this video about the pledges people are making to vote kindly. How will you vote kindly?
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Your commitment to kindness might just be your most practical response to Election Day stresses. Check out this video to see how and why you can test the power of kindness to secure a fair election. Vote Kindly and share your story here.
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The cable news network CNN is working hard to be the go-to place for political coverage, and as such, many of their anchor people are interacting with viewers and encouraging viewer-generated content. Here’s a brief rundown of the politically-oriented shows and the preferred methods of contacting each host. Even if your contribution doesn’t make it on the air, it will appear on CNN.com where it could receive wide attention, so please consider participating. At the end of this post I’ll give you some guidelines for submitting your materials in ways that will do the most good for the cause of Vote Kindly.
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Google is going all out to help you vote. Watch this video to see what they’ve done for you.
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To insure your vote can be cast and that it will be counted, you may be able to get an official verification of your registration from your state. If your state is not named in the list below, search online for: “(your state name) board of elections” to see if that’s possible. Even if it’s not, you’re likely to find other useful voter resources on the official websites.
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A teenager in Portland, Oregon—too young to vote but wanting to be involved in the political process—put up a few yard signs. (They happen to be for Obama, but that’s beside the point of this story.) His signs were promptly stolen in the middle of the night. Undaunted, he made his own sign.
Being a tech-savvy 16-year-old, Preston Fosback then focused a webcam on his new sign in hopes of catching the political vandals. His mom (fairly tech-savvy herself!) posted a link to his webcam on a political blog. That turned out to be the link clicked ‘round the world.
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Here’s your chance to make a genuine difference in this vital election and to witness democracy up close and personal.
This Election Day, November 4, attorneys, law students and paralegals are still needed to protect the rights of American voters. The nonpartisan Election Protection 2008 coalition (1-866-Our-Vote and www.866OurVote.org ) is in search of legal volunteers to help with Election Protection Hotlines and to act as mobile volunteers on the ground all over the country.
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If you want to do everything you can to make sure your vote is counted, you’ll need to be a diligent voter, no matter what kind of voting system is used at your polling place. This post begins a series of tips about what to pay attention to for early, absentee, Election Day and provisional voting with paper and electronic systems.
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As voters, we only frequent our polling places a few times a year. But for election officials, voting place management is a year-round full-time job. And this year, election managers’ jobs are bigger than ever. (So be especially kind to them, okay?)
Thanks to record-breaking voter registration drives, millions of potential new voters are entering the election system. Many election officials across the nation are already straining to process the abundance of registrations in time for Election Day while also preparing for projected history-making voter turn-outs.
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The vast majority of States now use electronic voting machines, a voting system that has proven notoriously vulnerable to mysterious technological snafus and vote theft. Computer scientists have shown many times over how easy it is to tamper with voting machines in ways that are nearly impossible to detect.
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