Remember when we thought 2008 would be a tough election year at the polls? Guess what, 2010 in Virginia will be tougher, and your help is definitely needed this year.

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Please consider:

• volunteering inside as an offical poll watcher for the Democratic Party on Election Day (also for Absentee-in-Person voting) to make sure that every voter votes and every vote counts, and/or
• being an election canvass monitor after the election in the vote certification process, and/or
• telling others – recruit and encourage them to volunteer with you (attorneys, law students, interested Democrats – not just attorneys).

To volunteer: contact Kim Alton, attorney and Lee District coordinator for our Election Law and Protection Committee at ProtectTheVote@LeeDems.org. [Kim is coordinating in Lee District with the DPVA, FCDC and candidates campaigns.]

Qualifications: strong Democrat, believe that every vote counts and every voter votes, registered voter in the Commonwealth (the laws changed this year; previously only registered voters in Fairfax County could participate inside).

What will you need to know:

• the ‘What If’s’ - this is the key to making sure that every qualified voter casts a ballot, and
• Do’s, Don’ts and Guidelines for Poll Workers.

These have actually occurred in Lee District. Qualified voters have been turned away from polls because they did not have ID. Qualified voters have been steered into voting provisional ballots when an affirmation would have sufficed. Election day volunteers have been intimidated and activities unnecessarily restricted.

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Why are we even more concerned this year? Hans A. von Spakovsky.

The Fairax County Electoral Board Members:

• Margaret K. Luca, Chairman (D)
• Hans A. von Spakovsky, Vice-Chairman (R)
• Carol Ann Coryell, Secretary (R)

Spakovsky, currently a senior fellow at the right-wing think tank Heritage Foundation, and former political appointee in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division whom President Bush temporarily placed on the FEC using a recess appointment, is said to have “used every opportunity he had over four years in the Justice Department to make it difficult for voters – poor, minority and Democratic – to go to the polls.“

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