(Impressive news for those who have worked with or used Project Vote. - promoted by Karl-Thomas Musselman)
Those who read our diaries know Project Vote as the organization that fights voter suppression and helps election protection efforts. What you may not know is that in addition to being on the frontlines in the fight for voter rights, Project Vote is also the largest voter registration organization in the United States.
Since 2003 over one-third of all registration applications submitted through voter registration drives in the U.S. have come through Project Vote. In 2003-04 we submitted 1.13 million applications, in 2006 just over 547,000, and by Friday we will collect our 1,000,000th registration for 2007-08. Half of our registrants are under 30, and almost all of them are African-Americans or Latinos. One-third of them have never registered before in their lives.
With one month left in the drive we have 270,000 more registrations to collect and you can help!
In 2004, just over 800,000 voted -- period -- in the primary.
When all was said and done, the increase in early vote totals in Texas' top 14 counties alone almost exceeded the 2004 totals. Here is the final early vote totals -- tomorrow, we see the real thing.
TX Primary Early Vote Totals - Only TX Top 14 Counties
Last Friday, Jerid Kurtz and Tim Russo of Buckeye State Blog -- the top political blog in Ohio -- invited me to have a conference call conversation about the latest news in the primaries.
We talked about the Clinton campaign's national security ad, how new paper ballots in Ohio could slow down reporting of numbers on Tuesday, NAFTA, our thoughts on what may happen Tuesday, and more. I also made fun of their sports teams about 10 times (hook 'em). I haven't listened to it yet -- I apologize in advance if I sound like an idiot.
To read and learn more about everything in Ohio, be sure to bookmark and visit Buckeye State Blog. Trust me -- you'll know a lot more about what's going on in Ohio tomorrow by staying in touch with their blog than watching CNN or (God forbid) MSNBC.
I'm part of the Groundgame in Houston, precinct co-captain of a Tier 1 Precinct, 0711, in a key Senatorial District 17 with 5 Delegates in the Primary... a real opportunity for an Obama +1... West Houston.
I want to share a simple tale of what a difference each Obama supporter can make in their own way every day. Each day I volunteer I find more and more reasons why Barack Obama is going to become the next President, and most of them come from simple actions me and my friends are taking every day to make sure that happens.
Please, follow me over the jump for a story sure to motivate you this day, one week out from March 4th...
There are a lot of Texans who live on and near the Texas coast. For the sake of all the coastal Texans of all political backgrounds, I don't want to go through another Hurricane season with Thelma Bush and his Louise GOP.
Please count Ohio's ballots now, during Hurricane season to save all our families on the coast. And, please count Ohio's ballots now, because the Climate is collapsing faster than scientists had earlier thought.
Also, time is running out as bee colonies are dying out this year. Bees need to be recovered this year.
If voter disenfranchisement bills pass in Texas, my vote in 2008 and beyond may not ever count again. That is already a big problem with the Republican owned "No Evidence" and "Hidden Evidence" Voting machines (kept in place if Holt's HR 811 passes) with which you have had to deal (will deal?). Our political power is being taken by elites who do not have the skills (nor intention if apocalyptic or profiting from catastrophy) for us to survive global warming.
Instead of waiting voteless and so powerless, for a meaningless 2008 election while our rulers drive us all over a cliff with Climate Collapse, we need to consider something different and meaningful.
If you are waiting to be asked, then I am begging, please count Ohio's votes now. And, if you won (which you may well know beforehand as each ballot has been copied/photographed for documentation), then hire Al Gore, John Edwards, Jim Webb, and James Lee Witt, among many other strong, caring and competent people to clean up the Bush/GOP disasters, help us through hurricane season, and save our Democracy, our Climate, and therefore, Us.
