Our Vote Live

Hobbes

Felt this needed a separate thread.

There is a non-partisan group in the US who are monitoring voter suppression or voting issues with people. Phone number is on the site.

http://www.ourvotelive.org/

They have a really nice map system that breaks it all down by location and type.

Some of the reports are interesting.

Larry Lomax stop looking at me!

We got a Democrat here!

You can't vote if you have a black child.

No Obama T-Shirts

You can vote by phone.

Way to many to find the juicy ones.

Hobbes

they have locked off the search so you can no longer view the reports but you can still view via URL.

http://www.ourvotelive.org/responses.php?op=show&id=64992

Just change the number at the end.

You can also see the latest reports via their RSS feed. Think this may of been disabled due to performance (or bad admin).

tribulus

Hobbes wrote: »

Felt this needed a separate thread.

There is a non-partisan group in the US who are monitoring voter suppression or voting issues with people. Phone number is on the site.

http://www.ourvotelive.org/

They have a really nice map system that breaks it all down by location and type.

Some of the reports are interesting.

You can't vote if you have a black child.

I think you may have misread this report (or maybe linked to the wrong one).

The report talks of "back child support" rather than black child support.

Hobbes

tribulus wrote: »

The report talks of "back child support" rather than black child support.

Looks like more added since last time I looked so your correct. Either misread or was typo when I read it.

The blog is interesting too.
http://blog.ourvotelive.org/

Also if you find a particular search you want when you get to the page with "Access denied" change responses.php in the URL to rss.php and you can review that search criteria.

Geordie_Girl

The Obama t-shirt thing is a bit misleading too. You're not supposed to display your preference to either candidate at the polling station as it can be seen to be trying to influence other voters. Apparently posters, rallies etc all need to be a certain distance from the polling stations for the same reason.

Crash

Aye, its standard practice in most elections. In fact, i'd be quite worried if they had let him in with an obama tshirt

Hobbes

yea I saw others where people are asked to cover up.

Here is one report where the prankster was dumb enough to give their phone number in the calls.

http://www.ourvotelive.org/responses.php?op=show&id=64167

Hobbes

Site is back up and they have a live updater on the main page now. Pretty cool.

lostexpectation

interesting page but getting page not found when i click thriugh to the reports...