Weekend Voting Tips

When you go to vote--if you encounter problems--take action. From The Brad Blog:

Yesterday, VelvetRevolution.us' election integrity expert Emily Levy suggested that when this problem occurs, voters should first tell officials, and ask them to remove the machine from service.

Then...Alert everyone else in line waiting to vote which machine caused the problem, and warn everyone else not to use it!

These are among the steps she recommends, with which I strongly concur:

• Call poll supervisors to observe the problem
• Fill out a problem report
• Refuse to vote on that machine
• Request that the machine be taken out of service
• Get a serial number of the machine if possible (may be unlikely in many cases)
• Tell other voters not to vote on that machine
• Call county/town election office
• Call local reporters
• Call voter problem hotlines (eg. 866-MYVOTE1 and 866-OUR-VOTE)
• Contact bloggers and Election Integrity websites.
• Raise holy hell.

[Disclosure: The BRAD BLOG is a co-founder of VR.]

Also, before you go to vote, bring a video camera (a cell phone video camera will do), to document the vote-flipping when you vote, and then upload it to VideoTheVote.org and YouTube, etc.!