Ustream and Video the Vote Encourage Voters to Film Election Day Injustice

All you need is a smartphone and an eye for injustice to help protect democracy. Video the Vote is collaborating with Ustream in a nationwide project aiming to get video documentation of any examples of voter suppression and disenfranchisement on Election Day 2012.

Video the Vote formed in 2006 in response to what it calls "massive voter disenfranchisement," citing voting controversy in Florida (2000) and Ohio (2004). It utilizes a network of some 4,000 citizen journalists across the nation, most of of which are situated where suppression is most likely -- battleground states such as Ohio, Wisconsin, Florida and others.

Video the Vote project director Matt Pascarella has been cove…
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