It is every citizens right to vote, and the current registration process is a mess. Clean it up!
Read more »If elected, support complete universal registration.
publicize GOP's "lose your home, lose your vote" strategy
this is going to sting! anybody who has half a heart is going to be outraged, and it's tied right in with the foreclosure crisis and thus the economy. it's win-win! (ironically)
the story's hit NPR and I can only imagine it will go mainstream soon enough:
http://www.michiganmessenger.com/4076/lose-your-house-lose-your-vote
also publicize any other vote suppression strategies they have
Read more »DC voting rights are civil rights, minority rights
It has long been a plank of the Democratic party's platform that the District of Columbia, whose 600,000 residents pay federal
taxes but have no vote in congress, are being unfairly denied their equal rights as citizens of the United States.
DC and its Maryland suburbs are "safe" territory electorally for the Democrats, but a push for DC voting rights could have a profound halo effect:
Read more »iPhones for Obama
Recruit an army of volunteers on election day to not only observe polls as monitors but actually be a resource to voters who need help by providing information via an Internet enabled cell phone, like an iPhone or a Blackberry.
Read more »New Voting Rights Act
Obama should champion a new national voting rights act which would 1. Make it ILLEGAL for States to put up barriers to voting (like ID cards) 2. Make it ILLEGAl to remove voters from registration lists without good cause. The burden of proof as to why they should be forbidden from voting should be placed upon the state, not the individual voter. 3.
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