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OIBA OFFICERS:

Arvo Q. Mikkanen, OIBA President(Kiowa/Comanche)

405/420-9912

405/553-8737; 405/553-8888 fax

Stephanie Hudson, OIBA

Vice President

(Kiowa)

Oklahoma Indian Legal Services

Oklahoma City, OK

405/943-6457

Dana Jim, OIBA

Secretary

(Cherokee/Navajo)

Staff Attorney - Cherokee Nation

Tahlequah, OK

918/457-6626

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(Comanche)

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Oklahoma City, OK

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the Generations

to Come

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PROBLEMS at the Polls?

Check First with Your County Election Board Official or call

866-OUR-VOTE

VOTE AT YOUR LOCAL POLLING

PLACE ON ELECTION DAY

TUESDAY, Nov. 4, 7:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Voter turnout has been historic. Be prepared for possible lines, bring a folding chair, water, cell phone, a book or your ipod to occupy you while waiting. As long as you are in line when polls close, you can still vote.

BRING YOUR ID with you, in case you are asked, especially if your registered or changed your registration by mail !

VALID ID: a photo ID with your voting address on it, a drivers license, a utility bill showing your address, a passport, your car tag registration, a government paycheck showing your address, a tribal membership card (with photo & address is best) or another government issued document

VOTERS IN LINE AT 7:00

SHOULD STILL BE ALLOWED TO VOTE

OIBA Election Protection Attorneys volunteered throughout Oklahoma to assist by phone on Election Day

and

Oklahoma City University Law Students (the OCU Chapter

of IMPACT) were at 9 locations in the OKC Metro

ELECTION PROTECTION

nonpartisan

VOTER ASSISTANCE

Problems Voting?

Turned Away from the Polls?

Polling Place Not Open on Time?

Polling Place Closing Early?

No Accomodations for the Handicapped?

Problems with your ID?

Voting Fraud?

Misleading Flyers or Information to Suppress the Vote?

Forced to Cast Provisional Ballot?

Tribal ID not accepted?

Intimidation of Voters waiting in Line?

Need to Verify Your Polling Place Location?

CONTACT YOUR LOCAL ELECTION BOARD FIRST

OR IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE CALL:

NATIONAL ELECTION PROTECTION HOTLINE

1-866-OUR-VOTE

(1-866-687-8683)

TRAINED ATTORNEYS AND LAW STUDENTS

ARE AVAILABLE TO HELP ANSWER

YOUR QUESTIONS AND ASSIST BY PHONE

INTERNET LINKS & RESOURCES

Why is Election Protection Needed?

Take a look at voter suppression efforts

already underway across the nation...

Reports Received to OIBA's Oklahoma Election Protection Headquarters

on Election Day

OKLAHOMA'S ELECTION PROTECTION TEAM

25 Oklahoma Indian Bar Association Attorneys and Law Students

will be assisting by telephone from the following cities:

Oklahoma City, El Reno, Norman, Tahlequah, Miami, Ada, Lawton,

Anadarko, Tulsa, & Okmulgee

Oklahoma City University Law Students from

the OCU Chapter of IMPACT were in the OKC Metro near the following locations:

North Park Mall, 12100 N. May

1st Southern Baptist Church, 6400 S. Sooner

Trinity Intl. Baptist Church, 1329 NW 23rd Street

Knob Hill Baptist Church, 2700 SW 59th Street

Coffee Creek Baptist Church, 1650 220th St, Edmond

Communtity Estates Church, 1815 S. Central Ave.

Asbury United Methodist Church, 1320 SW 38th Street

Monroney Jr. High School, 7400 E. Reno

Prospect Baptist Church, 2809 N. Missouri Ave.

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OIBA'S ELECTION PROTECTION PRESS RELEASE

Deceptive Flyer Circulating

in Virginia stating Democrats Vote on Nov. 5 (click for story)

Attorneys & Counselors at Law

200 N. Broadway, Suite 3300, Oklahoma City, OK 73102

PROVIDING

LOGISTICAL SUPPORT TO

THE OKLAHOMA INDIAN

BAR ASSOCIATION'S

ELECTION PROTECTION

PROJECT

Click on Photo Above to See a News 9 Story on OIBA's Election Protection Efforts in Oklahoma

The Oklahoma Indian Bar Association

Supports Rock the Native Vote !

Joseph Williams & Arvo Mikkanen, OIBA Election Protection Co-Chairs

VOTER REGISTRATION INQUIRIES 19

numerous calls to verify polling place, check on registration,

confirm location of polls

VOTER INQUIRIES ABOUT TIME OFF FROM EMPLOYER TO VOTE 3

POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY - OIBA EP Attorneys contacted

the employer and advised that state law requires at least

2 hrs off to vote, if notice given day before.

CADDO COUNTY - OIBA volunteer was contacted by employee

of Indian tribe who indicated that her employer was

reluctant to let her leave early to drive over an hour and half to

her polling place and wanted to let us know that she may

need assistance in explaining law regarding voting leave to employer.

CADDO COUNTY - Tribal employer would not allow employees

any time off to vote

VOTING MACHINE MALFUNCTIONS/PROBLEMS 2

LOGAN COUNTY (Langston University - Sanford Hall)

Voter waiting since 6:30 am Reported at Langston University that

the only voting machine there would not work or accept ballots,

the light was "on" for the machine, but it would not pull ballots in,

election workers opened the top of the machine and voters

manually put ballots in the top of the machine like a mailbox, One

voter was given a regular pen to mark his ballot, did so and voted

by putting his ballot in the box. He then realized that others were

using a special pen and asked if he could retrieve his ballot to mark

it so it would be sure and be counted, poll workers told him he

could not. OIBA EP ATTORNEYS contacted Logan County Election

Board who advised the machine was replaced at 8:00 a.m. the

ballots cast earlier that were not scanned will be scanned tonight

they advised.

OKLAHOMA COUNTY (Polling Place at NE 16th & MLK)

Malfunctionng Voting Machine, Was Not Properly Counting

Votes, Poll Workers Reported that they would Hand Count

Tonight. OIBA EP ATTORNEYS were not able to verify nature of

the malfunction or what was observed.

VOTER SUPPRESSION/INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR3

POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY (Pink Town Hall, Precinct 27)

At least 2 voters (one American Indian) stated that a male poll

worker was instructing every voter to vote for the "Eagle" if they

wanted to vote a "straight party ticket." The poll worker did not

distinguish between democrat straight party or republican straight

party vote, but simply told every voter to vote the "Eagle" for

a straight party vote. The 2 voters reported many elderly people

voting at this precinct. The voter figured out that the "Eagle"

is a straight party vote for the republican candidates. OIBA EP ATTORNEYS

CALLED BOTH THE POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY ELECTION BOARD

AND THE STATE ELECTION BOARD BUT COULD NOT GET

THROUGH ON PHONE LINES. A CALL WAS MADE TO THE

SHERIFF'S OFFICE BUT THEY CONTINUED TO REFER ATTORNEYS

TO THE ELECTION BOARD. ATTORNEYS CONTACTED

DIANA KNIGHT, ELECTION BOARD SECRETARY AT ABOUT 2:20 P.M.,

WHO VERIFIED THAT THIS ISSUE WAS REPORTED TO HER BY

STATE ELECTION BOARD SECRETARY MICHAEL CLINGMAN. MS.

KNIGHT SAID THAT SHE ADDRESSED THE ISSUE WITH THE POLL

WORKER AT ABOUT 9:00 A.M. AND DID NOT BELIEVE IT WAS

INTENTIONAL.

OKLAHOMA COUNTY

Law student Election Protection volunteer who was helping voters

outside of restricted area of polling place was screamed at by motorist

who accused her of telling voters who to vote for when she was actually

providing assistance to voters.

POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY

Caller reported seeing dufflebags being removed from voting area with

what she believed to be ballots on Monday in the middle of the day.

OIBA EP ATTORNEYS CONTACTED DIANA KNIGHT, POTAWATOMIE

COUNTY ELECTION BOARD, She stated that the citizen probably saw

poll workers picking up supplies which were in blue dufflebags, not ballots.

Ms. Knight indicated that ballots are not placed in dufflebags and

are collected and handled at the end of the day, not the middle of the day.

POLLING PLACE CONFUSION2

CADDO COUNTY - Sunset Elementary School, Anadarko

voting location was poorly marked

OKLAHOMA COUNTY - Precinct 484, 1st Free Methodist Church

1900 NW 13th St., Oklahoma City, OK

Voter reported that due to power problems at the polling place where only 1

outlet would work, only 2 of the 4 voting machines were functional. Poll officials

told voters to put state question ballots in one machine and candidate ballots

in the other and if they put a ballot in the wrong machine it would not

be counted. Voter asked for a sign to be put up over each machine to clarify

which was which and poll worker refused and said she would be fired if she

did that.

Click on photo above for CNN's

"Call in Voter Irregularities"