[Following is an email I sent out this morning...]

Good morning from the south side of Brooklyn, all!

Many of you know my commitment and activism around protecting voters from fraud, disenfranchisement and general craziness. In 2004, I traveled to Ohio to volunteer with the Election Protection coalition; this year, I wasn't able to make it out of town (due to this lovely little addition to the family: meet Izzy Louise).

I've instead been working on a digital election protection project that uses a variety of tools to allow people to report on their voting experiences: check out Twitter Vote Report at http://twittervotereport.com/ . There are a couple amazing things about this project:

– you don't have to use Twitter to report: text messages, phone calls, iPhones, Androids are all in play
– an *amazing* all-volunteer team came together from across the country to build out the coalition, site & tools in under two weeks

"This is a historic moment" is what we're going to hear all day today, and I could be prouder to have played a part in making new technologies the means to a better end. (For those keeping score at home: I did the logo, design, website buildout, and helped make the maps and other bits look nice.)

I'll also be reporting live for GRITtv with Laura Flanders from 12pm-2pm ET today on what we're seeing; you can also watch the 5-minute clip of me on yesterday's show, too:

Hope this finds you well… don't forget to go vote. ;-)

Check me out on GRITtv discussing the pros and cons (well, mostly the cons) of electronic voting. Along with me in the segment are Steven Rosenfeld, senior fellow at AlterNet and the author of Count My Vote: A Citizen's Guide to Voting, Bo Lipari, Executive Director of New Yorkers for Verified Voting, and of course, host with the most, Laura Flanders.

Oh! And here are the tutorials I promised. Well, at least for Mac Mail, and for Gmail… Thunderbird is still in the works, and here's a good one you can watch for Outlook.

Listservs & Mac Mail:

Listservs & Gmail:

I'm super excited to announce that my new segment on GRITtv with Laura Flanders has launched! I'll be doing regular segments featuring all things tech: politics (like episode 1, here), life hacks, sanity checks, gadget giddiness, you name it. Have suggestions or hot tips? Send them to blog AT deannazandt.com!