NPAction Update
Vol 4, Issue 18
October 17, 2006

Welcome to the NPAction Update.

Featured Article: Nonprofits Fight Voter Suppression In 2006 nonprofits are leading the charge to protect voters' rights and the integrity of the electoral process. State and local groups have partnered with national organizations that provide information and legal expertise to challenge new laws and regulations that inhibit peoples' ability to register and vote. Known as the "new voter suppression tactics", these laws place unnecessary burdens on nonpartisan, civic-minded groups that want to help people register and vote. Find out more about how these nonprofits are coping with this new challenge. The moral of this story is simple. You don't have to be a voting rights group to fight voter suppression! Click here to read more.

NEW on NPAction.org

Mainstreet Moms (theMMOB.org), Working Assets,and VoteTrustUSA have joined together in creating a nationwide campaign asking American voters to sign up to work the polls. Poll Workers For Democracy seeks to engage voters, and respond to the shortage of poll works by recruiting and training people to work at the polls nationwide so that the election on November 7 runs as smoothly as possible. Sign Up to Volunteer!

New Resources: The Nonprofit Voter Engagement Network

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NPAction invites organizations to share our tools on their websites. Just copy the HTML code from our site, and you're ready to go (but when you steal the code, just let us know!).

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