This week in the War on Voting: Down to the wire

Here are some helpful links for Election Day

' Vote411. Plug in your address and find out where your polling station is and information about your registration.
' An interactive map with hundreds of links to state-by-state election websites, including voter guides, provisional voting information and polling place hours and locations.
' 1-800-311-8683 Voter Help Line set up by the Democratic Party
' 1-866-MYVOTE1 (866-698-6831)
' 1-866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683)
' 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA (en Español)

If you would like to help with phone banking (which in many cases you can do from home), this diary contains links to organizations and individual progressive candidates to facilitate that process.

Group will directly fight voter suppression on Election Day

The Advancement Project, a civil rights organization, has targeted more than 30 cities and counties in nine states as possible 'Election Day Hot Spots.' In these, it is expected efforts will be made to suppress voting by means of trickery, intimidation or challenges to voters' eligiblity.

Katherine Culliton-Gonzalez, the project's senior attorney and director of voter protection, said the places the group has chosen are among those in the nation 'where voters of color would be most vulnerable.'

The project will be on hand with lawyers to handle voter complaints of such suppression in Virginia's Fairfax and Prince William counties; and in Florida's Osceola, Orlando/Orange, Pinellas, Seminole, Volusia, Miami and Broward counties. The cities: Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio; Allentown, Harrisburg and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, Texas; Durham and Raleigh, North Carolina; Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri; Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada; Milwaukee and Racine, Wisconsin.

Videographers fan out to document suppression

Through its partnership with Video the Vote, The Leadership Conference and its sister organization, The Leadership Conference Education Fund, which are both nonpartisan, will send teams of videographers to key polling places to record voters' experiences. Under the auspices of The Education Fund's 'Every Voter Counts' campaign, the videographers will help ensure that problems or barriers related to voting procedures are documented and reported to authorities in a timely manner. The teams will also work in conjunction with local partner groups and state-based election protection coalitions.  

'Voting is the language of democracy,' said Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference and The Education Fund. 'And the right to cast a vote free of intimidation has never faced a more sophisticated or coordinated attack. Our videographers are proud to join local and national efforts to make sure that every voter counts in this election.'

(Continue to read about the War on Voting'and its foes'below the fold)