Your Call 110408 Election Day Reports

What is happening at polling stations across the country? On the next Your Call, we'll check in with voters nationwide and we want to hear from you. Voter turnout has already surpassed the expectations. On Election Day, we expect long lines, electronic voting machine malfunctions and ballot shortages in several swing states. So what was your experience like at the polling booth? And how did it feel to finally vote? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests: Suzanne Gravette Acker, Communications and Development Director of Coalition on
Homeless and Housing in Ohio

Bob Hall, Executive Director of Democracy North Carolina.

Tomas Garduno, the statewide organizer for the SouthWest Organizing Project, a
non-partisan, non-profit group in New Mexico

Bob Schaeffer, with Florida's Center for Civic Participation

Joe Szakos, Executive Director of Virginia voting project

Carmen Rhodes, executive director of Front Range Economic Strategy Center
(FRESC) in Colorado

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Your Call 102108 Is voter suppression widespread?

How widespread is voter suppression? On the next Your Call, we'll have a discussion about tactics used by political parties to discourage or prohibit eligible voters from casting their votes. From voter purges to electronic voting, thousands of voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering. What are voters doing to fight back? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests: Adam Skaggs is counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice and an attorney for the voting rights organizations challenging Florida's "no match-no vote" law.

Bob Schaeffer with Florida's Center for Civic Participation

Tomás Garduño, the statewide organizer for the South West Organizing Project, a non-partisan, non-profit group in New Mexico that educates minority citizens.

Brian Rothenberg, Executive Director of Progress Ohio

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Your Call 091608 Voter Suppression

Will the enforcement - or violation - of voting rights decide a narrow election in November? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about voter suppression. We'll be joined by Steven Rosenfeld, author of Count My Vote: A Citizen's Guide to Voting, and Dorothy Fadiman, producer of Stealing America: Vote by Vote. What are the most pressing issues in the swing states that we should know about? What can we do to ensure that all eligible voters actually cast their votes? And who's looking out for them? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Steven Rosenfeld, author of Count My Vote: A Citizen's Guide to Voting

Dorothy Fadiman, producer of Stealing America: Vote by Vote.

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Your Call 091608 Voter Suppression

Will the enforcement - or violation - of voting rights decide a narrow election in November? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about voter suppression. We'll be joined by Steven Rosenfeld, author of Count My Vote: A Citizen's Guide to Voting, and Dorothy Fadiman, producer of Stealing America: Vote by Vote. What are the most pressing issues in the swing states that we should know about? What can we do to ensure that all eligible voters actually cast their votes? And who's looking out for them? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Steven Rosenfeld, author of Count My Vote: A Citizen's Guide to Voting

Dorothy Fadiman, producer of Stealing America: Vote by Vote.

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Your Call 090908 Will Your Vote Count?

Do you believe your vote will be counted in November? On the Next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Dorothy Fadiman about her new film Stealing America: Vote by Vote, and Richard Hayes Phillips about his new book, Witness to a Crime. Nearly 30 percent of voters will use touch-screen machines in November. Last year, an independent review panel found that California's electronic voting systems were vulnerable to attacks. How are you voting in November? And how can we be sure our votes will be counted? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Richard Hayes Phillips, author of Witness to a Crime: A Citizen's Audit of an American Election

Dorothy Fadiman, producer and director of the documentry film Stealing America: Vote by Vote

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