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What is Project Vote? projectvote

What is Project Vote? www.projectvote.org. It looks like they are a Get Out The Vote organization. Are they really nonpartisan?. What does “ relationship with service and advocacy partners ” mean?.

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What is Project Vote? projectvote

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  1. What is Project Vote?www.projectvote.org It looks like they are a Get Out The Vote organization

  2. Are they really nonpartisan? What does “relationship with service and advocacy partners” mean?

  3. It means that Project Vote works with public assistance programs like Medicaid, Food Stamps, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

  4. Who is Project Vote? 2010-2011 Board of Directors 5 of the 9 directors Frank Askin – Also General Counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~askin/ Renee Brereto – Also member of Advisory Council for Catholics in Alliance For The Common Good: Engaging Lay Catholics in the Social Justice Movement. http://commongoodcatholics.org/advisory-council Margaret Groarke – Also Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Peace Studies Program at Manhattan College. She co-authored a book with Frances Fox Piven and Lorrainne Minnite, both of whom are social justice advocates. Ms. Groarke’s bio can be found on her blog on Michael Moore’s Website. http://www.michaelmoore.com/blogger/MargaretGroarke Craig Kaplan – Also counsel to the Voter Protection Project of America’s Families United with the mission to promote social justice and equality. http://www.advancementproject.org/home Frances Fox Piven – Also honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America. Ms. Piven has a long history of radical ideology and statements. Recently stated that Americans needed to riot as they have in Greece against cutbacks. She is also a friend of President Obama. http://www.dsausa.org/about/structure.html

  5. Excerpt from a Project Vote Poll About the Poll The poll surveyed 1,947 Americans who cast ballots in 2008, with special samples drawn of black voters, low-income voters, and voters under the age of 30. This allowed Project Vote to make reliable comparisons among these three groups, self-identified Tea Party sympathizers, and a representative sample of the 2008 electorate.  The poll was written and analyzed by Dr. Lorraine Minnite, Project Vote Researcher Director and associate professor of Political Science at Barnard College, and conducted by Discovery Research Group between July 7, 2010 and August 11, 2010. Dr. Minnite holds a Ph.D. in political science and is a scholar of voting trends, social change, and institutional reform. [. . .] • About the Tea Party Tea Party sympathizers are predominantly white, older, and affluent. Their views on the role of government and government spending are not only starkly different from black voters, young voters, and low-income voters, but from the majority view of a representative sample of all 2008 voters. • 76% of Tea Party sympathizes reported their personal financial situation as fairly good or very good; 76% are married; 78% went to college; 84% are working or retired; and 92% are White. • Less than 6% of Tea Party sympathizers reported having to worry about buying food for their families in the past year compared to 39% of low-income voters, 37% of black voters and 21% of young voters.

  6. Project Vote is also protecting voter rights against such abuses as: • Having to show a photo ID • Proof of U.S. citizenship

  7. We must take a stand and say NO to required photo ID to vote; it is to repressive!!!

  8. The Founding Fathers believed the long term welfare of our nation would be best served by an informed and invested electorate. A excerpt from the Intercollegiate Socialist, the publication of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS), October-November, 1916 page 8, paragraph 3: To be sure, the Socialists have never seen advantage in perpetuating a capitalist state as such; but they usually have seen very great advantage in preserving such of its machinery as can be used in furtherance of the cause of democracy; and in preserving even the capitalist state itself from chaos until it can be conquered from within by the ballot and economic pressure and converted from a capitalist state into a co-operative commonwealth. "The Intercollegiate Socialist, Volume 5." Goggle Books. Princeton University, 1916. Web. 02 Aug 2011. <http://books.google.com/books?id=5UFWAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA5&dq=%22INTERCOLLEGIATE+SOCIALIST+VOLUME+5%22&hl=en&ei=lUNaTuKbBM_F0AGW2dCTCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false>.

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