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can I find out more?
Voter
registration links and resources
WAND
– Click here
for loads of useful information about the election
and candidates on a state-by-state basis.
Federal
Election Commission – www.fec.gov
Federal
government-provided information on how elections work
for each state.
League
of Women Voters – www.lwv.org/voter/index.html
(202-429-1965)
Official
Congressional web site – www.congress.gov
Voter
Projects and Organizing
America
Votes – www.americavotes.org
America
Votes is a new coalition of many of the largest membership-based
groups in the country.
National
Women’s Alliance – www.nwaforchange.org
NAACP
Voter Registration and Voter Empowerment Program -
www.naacp.org
Step-by-step guide for registering and approaching
the public for voter registration.
League
of Women Voters – Navigating Election Day:
What Every Voter Needs to Know www.lwv.org.
Women
National
Council of Women’s Organizations (NCWO) –
www.womensorganizations.org
The National Council of Women's Organizations is a
nonpartisan, nonprofit umbrella organization of almost
200 groups that collectively represent over ten million
women across the United States.
Women’s
Voices. Women’s Vote. – www.wvwv.org
Women's
Voices. Women Vote is a project to determine how to
increase the share of unmarried women in the electorate
and develop a set of messages to motivate their participation.
Voices
for Working Families – www.voicesforworkingfamilies.org
Voices
for Working Families is a nonprofit, nonpartisan 527
organization created to ensure that everyone in this
country can participate fully in America’s political
life.
National
Women’s Alliance – www.nwaforchange.org
Voter
disenfranchisement, voting rights, how to vote/register,
governmental elections background and process, federal
government structure and purpose.
Communities
of Color
African
American: NAACP Voter Empowerment and Voter Registration
Program
– www.naacp.org,
24-hour hotline 410-521-4939, toll free 1-877-NAACP-98
(1-877-622-2798)
Step-by-step
guide for registering and approaching the public for
voter registration.
African
American: National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
– www.bigvote.org;
The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
envisions a nation in which all citizens, from children
to seniors, have the tools to participate fully in
the democratic process at the local, state, national
and global levels.
Center
for Community Change – www.communitychange.org
Helping
low-income people, especially people of color, build
powerful, effective organizations through which they
can change their communities and public policies for
the better.
Low-income
Project
Vote –
www.projectvote.org
Nonpartisan
voter registration and mobilization work.
Center
for Community Change – www.communitychange.org
Helping
low-income people, especially people of color, build
powerful, effective organizations through which they
can change their communities and public policies for
the better.
Youth
Rock
the Vote – www.rockthevote.com
MTV’s
reminder that it’s “Choose or Lose” has resources
for voter registration and civic engagement.
Declare
Yourself – www.declareyourself.com;
Declare Yourself is a national nonpartisan, nonprofit
campaign to energize and empower a new movement
of young voters to participate in the 2004 presidential
election.
Peace
and Security Issues
WAND–
www.wand.org
National
Priorities Project – www.nationalpriorities.org
The
National Priorities Project (NPP) offers citizen and
community groups tools and resources to shape federal
budget and policy priorities which promote social
and economic justice.
Project
Vote Smart – www.vote-smart.org,
1-888-VOTE SMART (1-888-868-3762);
Candidates and officials and five basic categories:
backgrounds, issue positions, voting records, campaign
finances and performance evaluations.
20/20 Vision – www.2020vision.org
Information and action on peace and the environment.
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
– www.peacewomen.org
The PeaceWomen Project monitors and works toward rapid
and full implementation of United Nations Security
Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security.
Strategies
for U.S. National Security – Click
here;
National Security report, a program of The Stanley
Foundation
Election
Monitoring and Reform
Verified
Voting – www.verifiedvoting.org
Champions
transparent, reliable, and publicly verifiable elections
in the United States.
Center
for Voting and Democracy – www.fairvote.org
The Center for Voting and Democracy is dedicated
to fair elections where every vote counts and all
voters are represented.
People
for the American Way – Click here
Election Protection is the nation’s most ambitious
nonpartisan program for preventing Election Day disenfranchisement.
We provide same-day legal support to voters who experience
problems on Election Day to ensure that our nation's
democratic voice speaks clearly and inclusively.
