The Obama campaign needs your help with voter protection in three states: Ohio, North Carolina and New Mexico.
Below is a message from the campaign. MCM Today's message from policy committee member Ali Nathan highlights another important area where we need everyone's help: Voter Protection. You know from our previous messages how important it is that we turn out our supporters to vote on Election Day but it is just as important that the states count the votes of everyone qualified to vote who shows up to vote. Ali is our National Voter Protection Senior Advisor. She headed up our voter protection efforts in several of the primary states this spring and is working hard to make sure everyone's vote gets counted on November 4. But before we get to Ali's message, I have some guidance for those of you who are not lawyers and a separate suggestion for those of you who are lawyers (or at least think like a lawyer). First, all you non-lawyers, I'm sure you are saying to yourself that this appeal does not concern you. You are wrong. Even if you are not a lawyer, I'll bet you know a lawyer. So what you should do is forward Ali's message to every lawyer you know and ask all of them to forward it to all the lawyers they know. If you can recruit one or more lawyers to this task, you will be a huge help to the voter protection effort. Second, for all of you lawyers and law students, you're probably thinking that if you sign up for voter protection on Election Day, you'll be doing enough for the campaign in the last 16 days. You too are wrong. Certainly, we appreciate your help on Election Day to protect the vote but we still have more than two weeks until Election Day. We hope you will consider signing up for GOTV for the next two weekends as well in addition to protecting the vote on Election Day. Now, here's Ali's message: ---------------------------------------------------- Dear Larry, I also want to write from personal experience about what a difference volunteering makes. In this case, the particular volunteer need is on the voter protection front. In the primaries, I was involved in several key states on the voter protection team. In an election that is bringing so many new and first-time voters into the process, the help that lawyers and law students can provide to voters on Election Day is enormous and very meaningful. During the primaries I spoke to hundreds of new voters who might not have voted because of inaccurate information they had about the voting rules. Just today, I spoke to a newly registered voter in Pennsylvania who said that he wanted to vote for Barack Obama but wrongly assumed he couldn't because he had lost the voter registration card that had been sent to him by the County. Other folks I have spoken to thought they could not vote for Barack Obama in the general election because they are not registered Democrats. And with massive turnout expected and the voter suppression efforts under way by the McCain campaign, the need for a deep army of lawyers and law students to help promote and protect the vote is truly significant. The campaign and DNC have set up an unprecedented voter protection program. But we still need more volunteers. And there is a particular need for folks who live in or are willing to travel to Ohio. I strongly encourage folks who are not already committed to activities in a battleground state to consider traveling to Ohio for the weekend, do get-out-the vote activities on the weekend and Monday, and then volunteer as a voter protection poll observer on Election Day. The sign up is here: http://my.barackobama.com/counselforchange Volunteering for voter protection is truly working on the front lines of democracy! Best, Ali Nathan ------------------------------------- Steven G. Brant Founder and Principal Trimtab Management Systems 303 Park Avenue South, Suite 1413 New York, NY 10010 (646) 221-1933 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: stevengbrant http://www.trimtabmanagementsystems.com http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-g-brant "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H. G. Wells --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Mark Crispin Miller's "News From Underground" newsgroup. To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
