Action Items Archive
Action Items Conducted in 2018 – 2019:
ProtectOurVotes.com conducted 12 Action Items with our volunteers in 2018 – 2019. All of these Action Items come from Jenny Cohn’s article: ¨The midterms are three months away. Here’s what we still can and must do to protect our votes!¨
We provide a structure for election integrity activists to take action NOW, with a limited time commitment. Many of our volunteers participate in some or all of our action items. You can decide how active you want to be. We are excited to have you participate in our 2020 action Items.
Our flexible structure allows you to donate time or money. Some of our action items are no cost and some require the purchase of state voter registration databases (to look for voter registration purges) or absentee voter lists (to monitor return rates and ballot rejection statistics and reasons).
For many action items, we provide:
- A defined goal
- Methods (emails, calls, postcards)
- Link to our Action Item Kit
- Proposed graphics
- Proposed Script
- Email Address
- Label content to print at home
See below for a sample list of ProtectOurVotes.com Action Items conducted with volunteers in 2019. Some of these were activly supported and some were designed for independent action. We have included links to our supportive actions:
Action item 1: Demanding that Congress subpoena ES&S, Dominion, and other vendors re: their use of remote access software and cellular modems.
Methods: Emails, calls, social media posts, letters-to-the-editor, and postcards
Link to our: ACTION ITEM KIT
Proposed Graphics: HERE
Proposed Script: HERE
Email addresses: HERE
Labels: SENATORS LABELS
Action item 2: Demand that members of Congress pass the PaveAct (This post not longer appears in our archives. You can still see the proposed graphics and scripts below).
Link to our: ACTION ITEM KIT
Methods: Emails, calls, social media posts, letters-to-the-editor, and postcards
Proposed Graphics: HERE
Proposed script: HERE
Email addresses: HERE
Labels: SENATORS LABELS
Congressional telephone numbers and contact forms: HERE
Action item 3: Demand hand marked ballots from state election officials — and state and county election boards — that use touchscreens.
Methods: Emails, calls, social media posts, & postcards
Link to our: ACTION ITEM KIT
Proposed Graphics: HERE
Proposed Script: HERE
Proposed Contacts:
STATE BOARD of ELECTIONS DIRECTORS
additional contact lists can be found on our: ELECTION ACTIVIST RESOURCES page
Action item 4: Petitions for hand marked ballots directed to state and county election boards in key states that use touchscreens.
Methods: Change.org (Please coordinate with us at: info@protectourvotes.com)
Link to Our Petitions: PETITION FOR PENNSYLVANIA
Action item 5: Discuss voter registration and electronic pollbook security.
Methods: Calls and emails to state election officials and state and county election boards
Proposed Graphics: HERE
To contact your local election official (Board of Elections) in your county, try the drop-down menu at this FVAP.GOV link: List of Local Elections Officials
Proposed Graphics: 
Link to our: ACTION ITEM KIT
Action item 7: Educate voters and campaigns as to the need for poll observers (social media posts, letters-to-the-editor, and postcards).
Methods: Social media posts, editorials, and postcards to voters
Proposed Script:
Dear voter/candidate for elected office:
It is critically important to have poll observers at every single polling place on Election Day. Poll observers are needed not only to monitor problems that might occur during voting, but also to take pictures of the “poll tapes” (printouts listing the vote totals) when the polls close so that the poll tape totals can be compared against the official vote total. If they don’t match, this can be used in an election challenge.
Taking photos of the poll tapes is also important to ensure machines don’t mysteriously delete races from their totals, as happens on occasion.
Action item 8: Campaign to preserve the paper ballots and paper audit trails from the swing states in the 2016 election, which are scheduled for destruction in September. The truth matters, whatever it may be.
Methods: Social media posts, letters-to-the-editor, and postcards
Preserve paper ballots from 2016 (scheduled for destruction in September)
Methods: FOIA all paper ballots in Swing states by End of August 2018
To join our FOIA team, please contact us at: info@protectourvotes.com
Action item 9: Watch & record results on SOS or County websites thru the night. Take/save screenshots as you go, & include a timestamp in the filename when you do. Web results can change, sometimes in the wrong direction, thru the night. Your screenshots could save an election! Results of this Action Item can be viewed Here: Election Reporting Monitoring of Ohio SOS and County Election Results
Methods: twitter posts, emails, calls
Proposed Graphics: HERE
Proposed Scripts: HERE
Action item 11: Demand that counties in Wisconsin and elsewhere conduct manual audits (emails, phone calls, sit ins, etc.)
Action item 12: Amplify existing lawsuits championing election integrity (social media, editorials, etc).
Methods: Social media posts and letters-to-the-editor
Which Lawsuits can we support:
The Georgia lawsuit.
The South Carolina lawsuit.
Ballot image lawsuits when filed (see John Brakey & AuditAZ)