A Campaign To Protect Our Votes
Protect Our Elections is a new campaign to push for passage of pending national legislation to protect the votes and public elections of millions of Americans. We have identified common sense federal legislation that will help ensure the fairness of elections, starting with the 2010 mid-term election. It is necessary to call on Congress to demand passage of these important bills.
Specifically, passage of legislation to stop unfair voter challenges, purging of voter rolls, felon disenfranchisement, misleading election information, unlimited corporate financing, and mandatory photo IDs in federal elections will protect voters this year. In addition, a strong, paper ballot requirement, to be fully implemented by 2012, will help protect our elections in time for the next presidential election and mitigate the threat from Internet voting.
You can help in the following ways:
1) Sign the petition to tell your Congress Members to pass this pending legislation. Every person who signs on will have their name added to a second petition that we will deliver to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid demanding quick passage of these bills.
2) Call your Congress Members and tell them that you want strong election protection legislation supported by ProtectOurElections.org passed this year. Enough delay! No legislation is more important than that which shores up our increasingly vulnerable electoral system. You can find the phone numbers here.
3) Urge your friends and favorite organizations to join with this campaign to protect our elections by calling on Congress to act now!
4) Spread the word through social networking tools so this campaign goes viral on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Let us know when you post something so we can add it to this site.
Obama Endorses DISCLOSE Act- Chides Republicans for Filibuster
Raw Story, August 21, 2010: President Barack Obama Saturday urged Republican leaders in Congress not to block a bill aimed at reducing the role of big corporations and foreign entities in domestic elections.
Citizens United Strikes Again! Newscorp gives $1 Million to Republican Governors Association.
Did anybody really think Citizens United would benefit both partuies equally? Have any corporations (or unions) given anything close to $1 Million to the Democrats? If Corporatist candidates are allowed to take control of Congress in 2010, the new order created by Citizens United will become permanent as fewer and fewer candidates who represent the people will be elected or even nominated. Corporate control of the American government will be complete.
Agit Pop stages performance-art style protest at Target store
In response to their $150,000 donation to the anti-gay, anti-labor candidate for Minnesota governor, thousands of people have pledged to boycott Target. Agit Pop took that a step further with a surprise demonstration at a local target store.
Learn more about the boycott at WWW.TARGETBOYCOTT.ORG
NY Times: A Welfare Check and a Voting Card
Aug 9, 2010- After years of deliberate neglect, the Justice Department is finally beginning to enforce the federal law requiring states to provide voter registration at welfare and food stamp offices. The effort not only promises to bring hundreds of thousands of hard-to-reach voters into the electorate, but it could also reduce the impact of advocacy organizations whose role in registering voters caused such a furor in 2008.
Full Story HERE
HuffPo: US Chamber of Commerce Implicated in Money Laundering, Election Rigging
Election fraud attorney Bob Fitrakis is sending letters today to attorneys representing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and American Crossroads requesting that they retain all documents, emails, accounting records and other records. This "document hold" is the first step toward legal action based on the groups' alleged laundering of illegal campaign contributions from large corporations.
Fitrakis, in a telephone interview, explained, "We are planning on notifying the groups [as part of our] investigation and we're requesting that they hold all those documents pertaining to what we believe is an illegal money laundering scheme."
Full Story Here
Washignton Post: Ex-lobbyist Paul Magliocchetti charged with campaign-finance fraud
Paul J. Magliocchetti was one of the most powerful and influential lobbyists in Washington not too long ago, known for steering campaign contributions to favored lawmakers while securing millions of dollars in projects for his clients.
Magliocchetti, 64, the founder and owner of the now-closed PMA Group, was charged in U.S. District Court in Alexandria with eight counts of illegal campaign contributions and three counts of making false statements. He is accused of funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to lawmakers to enhance his firm's stature and business prospects.
Capitol Report: Corporate Spending Figures Heavily In 2010 Elections
More fallout from Citizens Unitied:
Larry Jacobs from the Humphrey institute talks about the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision and how it will impact the 2010 elections in Minnesota, particularly Target's donation to MN Forward.
Call On Senator Harry Reid To Tell GOP Senators, "No Vote, No Vacation"
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Protect Our Elections calls on Senator Harry Reid to tell Republican Senators, "No Vote, No Vacation!"
Last month, the House of Representatives passed the DISCLOSE Act to put some common sense limits on corporate funding of elections. But last week, when the bill was called for a vote in the Senate, Senate Republicans voted unanimously to continue debate, which effectively kept the vote from occurring.
