Thanks for signing up for the Protect the Vote / Election Protection Task Force. Below are important training links, and tools to help you this week as you prepare for observing. Please bookmark this page, because you can't get to it via the main website pages or navigation.
If you missed the Sunday, Oct.18 training, there is a link below for you to watch it.
Here are contact numbers for Open Democracy, coordinating the Protect the Vote / Election Protection Task Force in New Hampshire. .
Olivia Zink, Executive Director, 603-661-8621
Brian Beihl, Deputy Director, 603-620-8300
If you have friends who are interested in helping with this cause, please send them to https://www.opendemocracynh.org/election_task_force to review the roles and to sign up. I'll contact them as they sign up. Thanks again for everything you do to keep our elections safe & secure!
Brian Beihl, Deputy Director
Open Democracy
Sign Up & Training
Check out the observer role descriptions here:
https://www.opendemocracynh.org/election_task_force
You'll be asked what roles in which you'd be interested in doing.
Then sign up for roles, days and towns here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R16WWThQ66BXhjHSYIdVu5QKsAUTPYklF9OL70Na0ww/edit?usp=sharing
If you have any trouble signing up, send an email to Doreen and she'll be glad to help.
If you haven't taken the main Oct. 18 training yet, go here
Recording of Election Protection Task Force Training - Unedited
Start Time : Oct 18, 2020 06:49 PM
Meeting Recording:
https://zoom.us/rec/share/fHyMRhpFXVJcZVGrQuKv4b4T-pANdzSGJmUg-tPXnB9IwK7n1ol0cAu9gHXRA3-U.X4s32F3WVoP6Zr77 Access Passcode: *m5=RmtS
Meeting Recording:
https://zoom.us/rec/share/fHyMRhpFXVJcZVGrQuKv4b4T-pANdzSGJmUg-tPXnB9IwK7n1ol0cAu9gHXRA3-U.X4s32F3WVoP6Zr77 Access Passcode: *m5=RmtS
The supplemental training is here, from Sunday. October 25th Start Time : Oct 25, 2020 06:44 PM
Meeting Recording:
https://zoom.us/rec/share/0GtdXupOp9kAw49SIrdL5P2MNhcb4KsLhq3QzUurvXcVDjlIq5RX6UPOwyGSyv2T.6tZIEqKo9955h2vt
Access Passcode: Tx8zNhL.
Other important tools and links
Important Links:
- The presentation slides are here, which includes the embedded links we talked about.
- Secretary of State's page for Election Workers, where you'll be able to learn more about the election regulations. Please go one-by-one through the documents.
- The NH Attorney General Polling Place Checklist to know what rules and actions you should be observing, and what voter intimidation and suppression to look for.
- We've made up a Nonpartisan Observer badge for you to fit in a standard event/ trade show badge holder. We also have a small Poll Observer Resources document to print out, fold, and keep in your pocket. It has your key phone numbers on it, which I would also suggest putting in your phone contacts.
- If you're interested in helping with our OD/Common Cause social media monitoring, go to our page for this https://www.opendemocracynh.org/rdt_common_cause and there's a training link that Common Cause did for us in the first paragraph. We also did a practice with our Monadnock team which might be helpful:
Meeting Recording:
https://zoom.us/rec/share/RUDs3EaZAPbgd0Re3Tjf3MQxlsrTcmZrR0YT0aP3oOFt-_NwBbGYs0vrDAtnKf40.PEil1BRaZG69W0Jz Access Passcode: MY+wb5%i - Here's a really informative document from the Brennan Center on voter intimidation. We're not likely to see it, but because of all of the rhetoric coming from President Trump about the military, federal agents and law enforcement coming to the polls, this is a great document on where the lines are on this issue. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/voters-should-not-be-intimidated
Reporting back to Open Democracy
If you have taken an action while observing (Talking to Clerk, Moderator, Secretary of State's office, or Attorney General's office) we would like to know what action you took and why. We've created Google Forms to help you do this:
Record a Rejected Absentee Ballot from a preprocessing session or on election day
Record an incident, after you've reported it to the appropriate election authorities.
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