Only an informed, dedicated, grassroots groundswell can protect this election.
Less than three months remain to make that happen.
PRESSURE POINTS
Among the key challenges demanding grassroots election protection:
- Stop stripping the voter rolls
- Restore those wrongly removed
- Register new voters
- Proofread paper ballots before they're printed
- Make sure they're printed on time
- Make sure enough are printed for all registered voters
- Win reasonable official deadlines for ballot returns
- Get the ballots sent out early enough to return on time
- Provide secure neighborhood ballot drop boxes
- Provide safe places for any citizen to vote in person
- Support early voting
- Protect submitted ballots from arbitrary, partisan disqualification
- Get provisional ballots rightly counted
- Protect digital images
- Use the digital images to quickly provide the initial tally
- Preserve paper ballots for recounting
- Make sure deadlines for counting and recounting are met
- Protect the vote counts
ACTION PLAN/EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Anti-democracy forces have pledged $20 million to deploy 50,000 "volunteers" to the polls.
At least as many Election Protectionists must embed with state/county election boards, as soon as possible, for as long as necessary...
The millions who've marched for civil rights and police reform must now join local election operations through November 3 and beyond to guarantee a sustainable outcome.
After protecting the voter rolls, implementing Vote by Mail, and monitoring the vote count, we can deal with gerrymandering.
Groups listed at www.grassrootsep.org need your help to protect the election in key states and counties that will determine our future.
THE GRASSROOTS STATE & COUNTY ACTIVIST CORE
DC, the states, and the territories all vote differently, as do the 3141 counties within them. A single local board could flip an entire US presidential election.
A Koch-financed 2010 "Redmap Coup" embedded far-right legislatures in most of this year's key swing states.
Nearly all have decimated election protection, promoting sabotaged, stolen vote counts. The key right-wing "pincer strategy" is to limit voting places while decimating vote by mail, vastly reducing turnout.
The COVID pandemic has reduced the 116,990 polling places in 2018 to a tiny fraction in 2020. Franklin County (Columbus) Ohio's 2020 primaries had a single, shabby voting center in an abandoned, hard-to-find Kohl's. Voters in Wisconsin and Georgia were exposed to COVID and armed Trump terrorists, who will certainly return November 3.
In response, the NBA Atlanta Hawks have volunteered their 21,000-seat arena. Voters can take a number, sit socially distanced, and see their turn on the scoreboard. Most stadia offer central, secure locations, with ample parking, restrooms, and food services.
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