Activist Corps Action: (15 weeks until election): Help Prevent Republican Election Fraud

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For more information about the Activist Corps, click here. Thanks to sfexpat2000 for suggesting this week's action.

DU ACTIVIST CORPS ACTION: HELP PREVENT REPUBLICAN ELECTION FRAUD

For years now, Republicans have been quietly using "voter fraud" laws to perpetrate election fraud. According to a recent story in the American Prospect, "Using the Department of Justice, friendly governors, and its usual propaganda outlets, the GOP has propagated the myth of voter fraud to purge the rolls of non-Republicans."

Democrats all over the country need to check their registrations and make sure they are still eligible to vote in the November elections. This week's action is to write an email or letter to Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean and encourage him to make all Democrats aware that they may be prevented from voting in November, and to take action now to prevent any problems on election day.


CONTACT INFORMATION

Howard Dean
Democratic National Committee
430 S. Capitol St. SE
Washington, DC 20003

Web contact form: http://www.democrats.org/page/s/contact


TALKING POINTS

• Republicans have set up vote caging operations all over the country.


• Republicans plan to exploit the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) by using electronic databases to scrub registered Democrats from voter rolls.


• We need to counter by advising all Democrats to check their voter registration between now and October.


• In addition, Democrats should be reminded to vote in person, and in a group if possible.


• It is especially critical that Democrats in SWING STATES check that they are eligible to vote.

TIPS FOR SUCCESS

Be brief... be polite... be coherent!!

You can find a sample letter here.