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Polls & Media Coverage
While polling organizations and the media sometimes provide a check on election fraud, they often make things worse by calling elections before the votes have been counted or by under-reporting large constituencies.
Organizing ResourcesVoter Bill of RightsFrom unreliable electronic voting machines and millions of uncounted ballots, to partisan election officials and 10-hour waits at the polls, it is clear that our electoral system is in dire need of an overhaul. To build a more just, secure, and robust democracy, please support the following 10-point Voter Bill of Rights . . . NewsCENSORED: Secret control of presidential debatesDate: November 1 , 2009NJ: Ruling barring exit polling likely to be challenged, legal experts sayDate: October 2, 2009NATE SILVER: Cellphone Effects on PollingDate: November 2, 2008Take ActionTell the media to report the truth on Election Nightsource: TrueVote.US & No More Stolen Elections!Standing for Voterssource: www.StandingforVoters.orgTake the Pledge of Action!source: No More Stolen Elections!EventsDemocracy Track at the U.S. Social ForumThe Democracy Track is a series of sessions and community spaces at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia, June 27-July 1, 2007. The purpose of these sessions is to centralize democracy in all of our everyday struggles. Extending Democracy w/The Progressive, Manski, Farsetta, Gray, Wellstone(May 1, 2009 - May 2, 2009)Major speakers include Robert Redford, Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Barbara Ehrenreich, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and the editorial staff of the Progressive Magazine. Liberty Tree's Ben Manski, together with various members of Liberty Tree's Board of Directors and Board of Advisors -- John Nichols and Robert McChesney, among them -- will also be speaking at this exciting event. Publications & TalksNICHOLS: Special Report on the 2008 Elections(November 5, 2008)"A great democracy that is home to a very busy people ought not ask citizens to wait up to eight hours to cast their ballots, But that is precisely what America has done during the course of this most volatile and critical of election seasons." Prospects for Participatory Democracy in the U.S.A"The task . . . is to facilitate the growth of an aggressive democracy movement in the United States." |
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