Not much time left, so need a website and somebody who create instant publicity for it.

I'm still floored by that. He wants our bosses to control us completely, right down to how we vote.

the citizens of this country; he doesn't believe in the idea of a democracy.

I don't recall wide spread attempts at vote coercion in past elections.

The person I refer to, has changed political opinions since graduating from college and reports that her friend who used to be "conservative" with the exception of a very small number, have changed their opinions and the candidate for which they are likely to vote (Obama). These are red-state millennials. Their experiences, at least for those who are high information, inoculate them from the coercion (and p*ss them off), however these same employer emails are also going to a lot of low information voters. For low information voters fearing for their jobs, I fear this might be effective - unless it moves into the public common knowledge that this is an attempt to end democracy.

I work for a large defense contractor and the only direction we've been given in "register to vote", and that you shouldn't really talk about politics at work. It's a general don't talk thing. I mean quite a few people at work know how I vote, and I've had discussions about it. I know my boss votes republican and I told him that I'm very socially liberal and that women's rights are very important to me so I "tend" to vote democratic. It wasn't a hostile conversation, he was really interested in my opinion. And it has not hurt my reviews or raises since. Plus, the Obama administration has been very vocal in their support of the program I work on, so that's not a downside that I voted for him.

Actually another employee asked me how I could vote for Obama and work where I work. I said "have you read his defense bills..they make a lot of sense." Romney may want to up the defense spending, but it's not necessarily what the armed forces is asking for or needs.

Should say was, she's put in her 2 week notice. Can't afford the dismal pay, erratic late-night hours, last minute call-ins, and lack of health insurance for herself and her infant daughter. Big pressure from her boss to vote for Rmoney. That if he's not elected, X amount of employees will have to be let go due to impending Obamacare ... and the big threat a a 15 cent per pizza price hike. We've turned her onto DU and a few other sites to help her retain her sanity and give her "talking points" to respond to her bully boss.

That's some bullshit to have to deal with. And at the end of the day even with Obamacare and fifteen cents, Papa Johns will still be in business.

My boss actually asked me my politics out of curiosity. Even then I may as liberal, bur I do a darn good job.

I am employed by a large and well known company and while they do encourage us to donate to the PAC that deals with issues which would benefit the industry they have never made veiled threats.

Today I received an email that was sent to every employee encouraging us to vote no matter who we planned to vote for. I was so relived that it wasn't slanted toward rethuglicans because I really like my job and the company I work for so I didn't want to have to be PO'd about being coerced.

We are encouraged to contact our Senators/Representatives about Sequestration, but not about how we vote.

I wouldn't think that it was that big of a deal. It's a secret ballot so how can there be any coercion? If he asked everyone to get absentee ballots so that he could inspect them before they were mailed, I would be furious (and I am sure that this would be illegal). I guess I don't really get that a boss expressing a political opinion in the workplace is that big of an issue.

The coercion is the suggestion that your job will cease to exist, in a market where there are no other jobs in your field.