Help Secure Close Congressional Races

While the nation's eyes are on the presidential race, Congressional races are in significant danger of manipulation affecting the outcomes. Thousands upon thousands of voters are being disenfranchised through voter purges and other targeted efforts, especially in communities of color, college communities, and poor and working class communities. Electronic voting systems and vote tabulation systems can be easily rigged or hacked. Even in races that are not close, but especially in close races, we must be vigilant.

We need to make sure that no candidate concedes before all valid votes are counted. The thousands of provisional ballots that will be cast by people knocked off of the voting rolls will not be counted election night.

We also need to make sure that challenges will be mounted where elections are suspicious. Sometimes voters can mount these challenges. Sometimes that's cost prohibitive or otherwise not doable.

We must prepare candidates to take action!

Standing For Voters is calling on candidates to take this election integrity pledge:


There is also a stronger "Super Pledge" that candidates can take.

If you're a candidate, please take the pledge at StandingForVoters.org
ANY candidate for ANY office in ANY state can pledge!

If you're a voter, please call candidates' campaign headquarters and ask how you can get a request to your candidates to take the Standing For Voters pledge.
Details on how to do this here.

Candidates ask voters to stand for them. Now it's time for voters to call on candidates to commit to Standing For Voters!

The list of pledgers is growing. For updates, or to see full list rather than only the Democrats, click here.

Super Pledges:

Clint Curtis (signed before he lost in the August primary)
Democrat
Candidate for U.S. Congress
Florida's 24th District

John Russell
Democrat
Candidate for U.S. Congress
Florida's 5th District

Fred Arnold
Democrat
Candidate for State House
Wyoming's 38th District

Bill Monning
Democrat
Candidate for Assembly
California's 27th District

Eufracia Boyle
Democrat
Candidate for Community College Governing Board
San Bernadino County, CA

Tony Madrigal
Democrat
Candidate for City Council
Santa Cruz, California

David Terrazas
Democrat
Candidate for City Council
Santa Cruz, California

Basic Pledges:

Jason Osgood
Democrat
Candidate for Secretary of State
State of Washington

Jason Wright
Democrat
Candidate for State Senate
Wyoming's 2nd District

Mark Ridley-Thomas
Democrat
Candidate for County Supervisor
2nd District, Los Angeles, California

Katherine Beiers
Democrat
Candidate for City Council
Santa Cruz, California

Don Lane
Democrat
Candidate for City Council
Santa Cruz, California