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1-309-946-5100 Passcode: 869727
Wednesday, October 29 at 11:00am - Cyber-workshop: fighting voter...
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Saturday, October 25 at 1:00pm
Voter Suppression Wiki
11 AM Eastern/8 AM Pacific time
The Voter Suppression Wiki's Workshop on Last-minute strategies to reduce voter suppression identified several major opportunities to protect voting rights during the week of the election. While election officials, campaigns, and non-partisan organizations have all made major effort so in...form voters, there is still a significant lack of awareness of key resources such as state and national hotline numbers and online sites that allow people to check their polling location. Blogs and other online media could play a big role by providing election protection information on their front pages between now and the election; real-world community hubs such as libraries, coffeeshops and bars, and community technology centers also can make this information much more prominent. More effective coordination between election protection organizations, student groups, and community activists can help spread the word more quickly in response to last-minute election alerts such as polling location changes, undelivered ballots, and extensions of poll closing times.
In addition to briefly presenting the report's recommendations and giving the press and opportunity for questions, this call will also discuss the broad grassroots election protection/citizen journalism movement, including projects like the Election Protection Wiki, Twitter Vote Report, and Video the Vote; the involvement of corporations such as CREDO Action and Wetpaint; and how these efforts can have a significant impact on the 2008 election.
Moderator: Jon Pincus, Workshop Organizer, Vice-chair of online visibility for the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) conference
Baratunde Thurston: blogger at Jack and Jill Politics and founder of the Voter Suppression Wiki
Tracy Viselli: blogger at Reno and Its Discontents and member of the Voter Suppression Wiki and Twitter Vote Report
Harry Waisbren: Madison lead for Campus Progress, co-host of Forward Forum
Dave Johnson: Election Protection Wiki
Alex Wise: Credo Action
Dustin Woodard and Devin Hughes: Wetpaint
Nancy Scola, techPresident
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The Voter Suppression Wiki's Workshop on Last-minute strategies to reduce voter suppression identified several major opportunities to protect voting rights during the week of the election. While election officials, campaigns, and non-partisan organizations have all made major effort so in...form voters, there is still a significant lack of awareness of key resources such as state and national hotline numbers and online sites that allow people to check their polling location. Blogs and other online media could play a big role by providing election protection information on their front pages between now and the election; real-world community hubs such as libraries, coffeeshops and bars, and community technology centers also can make this information much more prominent. More effective coordination between election protection organizations, student groups, and community activists can help spread the word more quickly in response to last-minute election alerts such as polling location changes, undelivered ballots, and extensions of poll closing times.
In addition to briefly presenting the report's recommendations and giving the press and opportunity for questions, this call will also discuss the broad grassroots election protection/citizen journalism movement, including projects like the Election Protection Wiki, Twitter Vote Report, and Video the Vote; the involvement of corporations such as CREDO Action and Wetpaint; and how these efforts can have a significant impact on the 2008 election.
Moderator: Jon Pincus, Workshop Organizer, Vice-chair of online visibility for the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) conference
Baratunde Thurston: blogger at Jack and Jill Politics and founder of the Voter Suppression Wiki
Tracy Viselli: blogger at Reno and Its Discontents and member of the Voter Suppression Wiki and Twitter Vote Report
Harry Waisbren: Madison lead for Campus Progress, co-host of Forward Forum
Dave Johnson: Election Protection Wiki
Alex Wise: Credo Action
Dustin Woodard and Devin Hughes: Wetpaint
Nancy Scola, techPresident
Read More
A week's still enough time to make a difference!
Time:11:00AM Wednesday, October 29th
Location:1-309-946-5100 Passcode: 869727
RECENT ACTIVITY
Voter Suppression Wiki discussed increasing awarenes of the Election Protection hotline on the Voter Suppression Wiki discussion board.
Voter Suppression Wiki discussed how can students help? on the Voter Suppression Wiki discussion board.
Voter Suppression Wiki discussed cyber-workshop: general brainstorming on the Voter Suppression Wiki discussion board.
Voter Suppression Wiki
Finalizing ideas to reduce voter suppression before and on election day (November 4). Our goal is to come out of the session with concrete, actionable ideas that can make a difference in the next ten days.
To join in, please check out the web site at http://www.votersuppression.net/page/Wor
Our first conference cal...l will be Saturday, October 25, at 4 PM Eastern/1 PM Pacific. Check the wiki for an RSVP thread and dialin info.
For background, please see Jon Pincus' post on Liminal States at http://www.talesfromthe.net/jon/?p=249Read More
To join in, please check out the web site at http://www.votersuppression.net/page/Wor
Our first conference cal...l will be Saturday, October 25, at 4 PM Eastern/1 PM Pacific. Check the wiki for an RSVP thread and dialin info.
For background, please see Jon Pincus' post on Liminal States at http://www.talesfromthe.net/jon/?p=249Read More
Ideas for the final week
Time:1:00PM Saturday, October 25th
RECENT ACTIVITY
Voter Suppression Wiki changed their Company Overview.
