While the news media continues to focus on our voter registration work, which ended back on Oct. 6, ACORN has been busy gearing up for our extensive Get Out the Vote efforts. We want to make sure that ACORN members, new registrants, immigrant citizens, young people, and infrequent voters in low-income and minority communities go to the polls to make their voices heard. This election is one of historic proportions, and we want make sure our registrants can get to the polls, cast a ballot, and have that ballot counted.

In the midst of attempts at voter suppression and intimidation across the country, ACORN is focusing its 2008 Voter Education and Mobilization Program on three sets of voters: 1) those who participated in only one of three recent major elections; 2) inactive voters registered since 2004; and 3) citizens registered since November 2006. ACORN members and organizers will be focusing their efforts in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Ohio, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania so that we can engage more than 250,000voters and contact them personally at least twice--once by phone and once by door-knocking--between now and Election Day on Tuesday.

We also plan to reach these potential voters by robo call and mail programs, getting the word to hundreds of thousands registered voters in 11 states to encourage voting and provide polling place information to new voters. ACORN members and canvassers are working to distribute more than half a million fliers and door-hangers with the 1-866-OUR-VOTE and www.govote.org (www.veavotar.com for Spanish speakers) election protection phone number and website to help ACORN's constituents understand their voting rights, bring proper identification, and find their polling place.

In this huge Get Out the Vote effort, we're partnering with We Are America Alliance (WAAA) to focus on Latino, Asian, and New American communities in Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Florida, and Washington. In Colorado and Arizona, our programs will mobilize voters to increase turn-out and help defeat harmful ballot initiatives: a predatory lending deregulation bill in Arizona, four anti-labor ballot Initiatives in Colorado, and an affirmative action ban in Colorado. Voter Education efforts about predatory lending, jobs, the economy, and other economic justice issues will help diverse voters in states across the U.S. make informed decisions regarding ballot initiatives and public policy so they can later hold politicians accountable to ACORN constituents and other low-income voters.

You can help us make sure that our program reaches the maximum number of eligible low-income, minority, and young voters by going here and giving a donation of whatever you can afford! And you can still stand with ACORN against the attacks from the Right by going here to sign the petition telling John McCain to stop the smears and by watching and passing on ACORN's first-ever TV commercial, which aims to fight voter suppression from the McCain campaign.