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key Senate races Hope everyone's doing ok in surviving Hurricane Sandy. Another example of the fragility of our world, as we continue to make it even more fragile with climate change. Our Campus Election Engagement Project has just created nonpartisan guides for selected close US Senate and House races as well as for the presidency. People find these guides immensely valuable precisely because large numbers really don’t know where the candidates stand. You can find them here, so please distribute them as widely as possible in the networks you're part of. <http://www.campuselect.org/engagement-resources.html> Senate races: Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. House races: New York’s 18th, 24th and 27th districts, Ohio’s 16th,Colorado’s 6th, Nevada’s 3rd, Florida’s 18th, Michigan’s 1st and 11th,North Carolina’s 7th and Pennsylvania’s 12th. [And remember that if students really want to multiply their impact, they can volunteer with campaigns of their choosing, including calling in to other states to turn out key voters] SEVERAL OTHER USEFUL TOOLS FOR LAST-MINUTE ENGAGEMENT: VoteWithFriends <http://www.votewithfriends.net/> This is a tech tool we think is very useful, especially at this late date. www.votewithfriends.net gives you a Facebook app where you pledge to vote, ask your Facebook friends to pledge, and then keep reminding them until they do. It seems both useful and well-designed, and it identified our friends as soon as we logged in with it. We didn't find any bugs, although the best way to invite friends in bulk, under Missions, didn’t reach all of them, so sometimes you have to click friends one by one. It's created by the group that organized the massive online protest against the Stop Online Piracy bill, including the famous day when Wikipedia went dark, so it's created by seriously skilled techies and it’s definitely worth forwarding to your networks. Google Polling Place Finder <https://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/vote> If it's Google, you know it's good, and their Politics and Elections page now includes a tool that gives voters their polling place and the major items on their ballot; all they have to do is type in their address. There are plenty of great digital voting programs out there, as you surely know if you get our updates, but the combination of speed, simplicity and a respected brand name makes this a great one to recommend to voters who just need to quickly and efficiently get their basic voting info. Check it out! LongdistanceVoter <http://www.longdistancevoter.org> Deadlines for absentee ballot applications are coming up in the next few days for a lot of states, so if you're in a state other than the one they're registered in, or far from their voting precinct, should ensure they'll have the chance to make their voice heard by voting long-distance. Nonprofit Vote's Nov. 6 Posters <http://www.nonprofitvote.org/get-your-poster.html> Nonprofit Vote has put together some outstanding posters encouraging people to vote, and they would make a great addition to public spaces and announcement boards on your campus. There's less than a week to go before Election Day, but these eye-catching, attention-grabbing posters are an excellent way to make sure students with a lot of other commitments remember to exercise their right to vote and make their voices heard. They've also got information in English and Spanish directing people to resources to help them vote, which could prove especially helpful in states with strict voter identification laws and areas hard-hit by Hurricane Sandy. You can peruse and download the posters right here; scroll down to see all the options. Thanks for all you do. Paul Loeb loeb@soulofacitizen.org
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