Protect Your Vote

Passing along an email from Voices for Working Families:

Are you sure your registration is up to date? Help Voices Be Heard! Even if you have a voter registration card in your wallet, your polling place location or even your registration status might have changed. There are no "do-overs" after November 2nd, so it's critical that you make sure you are ready and prepared to vote. As the deadline for registering to voter approaches (October 5 in New Mexico), you are running out of time to make any important changes to your voter registration. Call your State Board of Elections to get in touch with your county or city registrar to verify that you are able to vote. With so much on the line, we can't afford to be turned away from polls. Click here to find the number for your state board of elections

Do you know voter suppression when you see it? This is America-where every man and woman is entitled to the power of the vote and every vote carries the possibility of change. Unfortunately, it just isn't always so simple. Polling places are moved without advanced notice, uniformed police offers enter into homes and interrogate voters, poll places close before many have had a chance to vote, and vicious radio ads full of misleading statements are played that discourage citizens from voting. These strategies are employed because others think they will work. Not this time! We refuse to be intimidated, harassed, and silenced. We will proudly raise our voice this election and demand better schools for our children, better health care for our families, and better wages for a hard day's work. We refuse to let fear steal our votes, absolutely No Excuses! If you witness voter suppression call 1-866-OUR-VOTE

Click here to listen to our new PSA addressing voter suppression! And then please donate and let Voices air this ad across the nation!

Action Alert: Volunteer with Voices and Get Out The Vote! Give us 2 weeks of your time before election day to make a difference. If you're interested, please email info@voicesforworkingfamilies.org or call 866-211-7296.

Note: There's also a voter hotline operated by Hispanic organizations. The National Association of Latin American Elected Officials provides a bilingual, nonpartisan hotline that serves as a source of information on election-related issues, including voter registration, polling places and laws related to voting. The hotline will also help document and moinitor voter protection complaints and work with local election officials to respond to them. The toll-free number is 1-888-839-8682. Univision and the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund also are helping to orgnize and promote the new hotline.