District of Columbia voting issues

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Election and registration information

Voting Machines used November, 2008 in District of Columbia

The source for this section is Verified Voting's Verifier tool.

Main article: Voting machines

Direct-Recording Electronic (DRE) machines with a paper trail:

• Sequoia's AVC Advantage

Optical scan machines:

• Sequoia's Optech III-P Eagle, also sold by Election Systems & Software

Governmental election authorities

Board of Elections and Ethics

• Website: http://www.dcboee.org/

Contact information:

• DC Board of Elections and Ethics
• 441 4th Street, NW, Suite 250 North
• Washington, DC 20001
• Tel: (202) 727-2525 TTY: (202) 639-8916 Tollfree: 1-866-DC-VOTES

• Email: boee@dc.gov

Election threats

• For an extensive log of voting machine problems, see the VotersUnite! report on election incidents.

State and local non-governmental election organizations

League of Women Voters

LWV of District of Columbia, Ms. Elizabeth M. Martin, President

• 1717 Massachusetts Avenue NW
• Suite 600, c/o Friends of the Earth
• Washington, DC 20036
• Phone: 202-222-0710
• Fax: 202-783-0444
• E-mail: lwvdc@aol.com
• http://www.lwvdc.org

Articles and resources

See also

• The main page on election protection and reform organizations.
• All articles in the Election Protection Wiki project.
• For election day: Things citizens can do to monitor elections and If you are told you cannot vote.

External resources

Poll location

• GoVote.org locates your polling place and other voting information.
• Google map polling locations locates most polling location, may be missing or out of date.

Election Protection hotlines

• 866-OUR-VOTE (National Election Protection Hotline)
• 888-VE-Y-VOTA (Español)
• 800-966-5946 (AALDEF, Asian languages)
• 866-MYVOTE1 (Tom Joyner Hotline - VoterAction, NAACP National Voter Fund)
• 877-523-2792 (ACLU Voting Rights Project Hotline)
• 877-US4-OBAMA (Obama campaign Voter Hotline)
• 866-976-VOTE (McCain campaign Honest and Open Election hotline - leave a message)
• 877-GOCNN08 (CNN Voter Problem Tipline)
• 888-VOTE-TIP (VelvetRevolution Election Protection Hotline for fraud)
• 567-258-VOTE (Twitter Vote Report key in report or leave audio message)

Voting information

• Vote411.org from the League of Women Voters provides all kinds of information to help you vote.

Voting rights

• ACLU's "Know Your Voting Rights - State by State" -- printable brochures summarizing your voting rights, for most states.
• One-page know your rights summaries for 27 states from the AFL-CIO.

Voting requirements

• Click here to see the voter ID requirements in all states. From the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Election officials, election reform groups, and elected officials

• Why Tuesday? offers a page for DC that helps locate DC's elections officials, election reform groups, and elected officials, as well as a page titled Find a group in your area that lets you find similar information for other states.

Absentee voting

• Click here to request an absentee ballot. Go Vote Absentee is a project of the Women Donors Network.

Disabled voters

• Information for voters with disabilities from NDRN.

Student voting rights

• See DC Student Voting Rights for a guide to student voting rights in DC. See Student Voting Rights for a guide to other states. From the Brennan Center for Justice.

State ballot

• See how organizations you trust recommend you vote on ballot measures and other statewide contests at TransparentDemocracy.

Languages

• Help in other languages from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. 中文, 日本語, 한국어, Tagalog, Tiếng Việt, Español

Voting machines

• Verified Voting's DC page, which provides detailed information on voting equipment in use in every county in DC.

Election law

• Election Law @ Moritz's DC page, which provides detailed information on election law developments in DC. See map page to see the information for election developments in any given state.

• Election Law @ Moritz's DC general information page, which provides information on DC election authorities, post-election processes, and other topics. See map page to see this information for any given state.