Electionland: Election monitoring project by ProPublica

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If you know anyone in your local press pass this along.

Edit: I should have noted that individuals can sign up as well to report wait times, etc of their polling location.

https://www.propublica.org/article/monitoring-the-vote-with-electionland

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Historically, newsrooms have focused on covering the outcome of Election Day, relegating voting snafus to be followed up later, if at all. Today we’re announcing Electionland, a project to cover voting access and other problems in real time. The issue is particularly urgent this election year, as states have passed laws that could affect citizens’ access to the ballot box.

We’ll leave the horse race to others and focus on the ways in which problems prevent people from voting: Which voters are getting turned away (and why)? Where are lines so long that people are giving up? Is there actually any evidence of people casting fraudulent votes?

To answer these questions we’re teaming up with a group of media partners to create a virtual newsroom that will produce stories on voting problems as they happen, and distribute leads about voting problems to local journalists who can follow up on them. It is our hope that this journalism will have immediate impact, helping people who might otherwise have been turned away to cast their ballots.

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1. Selfishly bumping because I think its important. Email to your local news outlets.

Things are going be ugly this year. From voter roll purges to changing ID requirements, the Republicans have been working overtime to make it hard to vote.