Volunteer On May 19

Help us with Election Protection

We need your help in ensuring the integrity of the vote on May 19. E-mail us to volunteer today!

Primary 09 Voter Guide

The PA League of Young Voters and Sierra Club's Allegheny County voter guide is now available.

Keep up with national ARRA & Green Jobs activites.

The Green For All Recovery Blog is the place to be to check out best practices, innovation and news on Stimulus funding and the Green Jobs movement.

Announcing the B-PEP Regional Equity Monitoring Project (REMP) survey!

Our partners at B-PEP are developing the REMP project and want your input. Please take the REMP Strategic Plan Survey.

The Initial Results Are In!

First reporting on the 2008 General Election results are in!

Take a look at PA VOICE 2008 Preliminary Reporting and PA VOICE 2008 Election Administration & Protection Report from our partners at Pennsylvania VOICE .

And NVEN reports include Voter Turnout in Pennsylvania 2008 and at national outcomes in the NVEN America Goes to the Polls Brief

Over 300 Election Protection Volunteers helped us on in Allegheny County on Election Day!

Attorneys, law students, paralegals, faith groups, non-profits, unions, students, and community organizations mobilized to "Protect The Vote" on November 4th.

Thanks to the Union Project, 801 N. Negley Avenue for serving as our Election Day field HQ!

You helped to safeguard Pennsylvania's right to vote!

We are committed to protecting elections and informing voters of their rights, making sure that every vote is counted and every voice is heard. Monitoring:

Voter Purges
Unprocessed Voter Registrations Obstacles to Student Voting
Voting Machine Allocations
Poll worker training and shortages
Partisan voter challenges, voter intimidation and deception
Disability access
Language barriers
Incorrect use of emergency and provisional ballots

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866-OUR-VOTE
888-VE-Y-VOTA

Through their state of the art hotlines: 1-866-OUR-VOTE (administered by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law) and 1-888-Ve-Y-Vota (administered by the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Education Fund), their website www.866ourvote.org , and comprehensive voter protection field programs across the country, Election Protection is providing Americans from coast to coast with comprehensive voter information and advice on how they can make sure their vote is counted.