Watch The Vote Program History

Voter Action’s Watch the Vote Program is a comprehensive election monitoring and election protection effort. Watch the Vote provides voters with the tools and legal support necessary to “take back” our public elections processes by monitoring Election Day, as well as the systems and processes that record and tabulate votes and provide or deny access to the ballot. This includes auditing election results at the precinct and county levels, monitoring voter registration databases, and tracking electronic poll book testing and usage.

In the early fall of 2006, Voter Action created a pilot program – Watch the Vote – which partnered with Verified Voting, Poll Workers for Democracy, Electronic Frontier Foundation, VoteTrust USA and Voters Unite to assist in a new type of election monitoring. Through a Voter-Action-trained, attorney-staffed hotline, we created education and outreach opportunities with national election monitoring and state based organizations, concerned citizens and poll workers.

See results of the 2006 program, based on post-election data gathered through our hotline and nationwide, citizen-led oversight activities in our co-published and comprehensive report: E-Voting in the 2006 Mid-Terms.