Link TV's live election day coverage will feature up-to-the-minute election results, unconventional commentary, and live battleground state reports from Salon.com, America's premier online news source.  Link and Salon will aggressively report any instances of vote tampering, fraud and voter intimidation so citizens can respond in real time.  Anchored by veteran journalists Mark Hertsgaard,  Wendy Hanamura, and Peter Laufer, and radio journalist Davey D, Link TV will explore whether the 2004 election is marred by any of the irregularities that occurred in 2000. Link will also highlight international reaction to the election, much of which is focused on the on-going war in Iraq.

Link's coverage will also highlight international reaction to this election through regular reports from MOSAIC, the Middle Eastern desk at Link TV and other international media. In what is shaping up to be one of the most contentious elections in U.S. history, Link TV’s one-of-a-kind election coverage will include:

• Up-to-the-minute Reports on Election Fraud or Voter  Intimidation--As It Occurs.    These reports will be filed by Salon.com’s on-the-ground reporters in key electoral states and by Global Exchange’s International Voter Observation Team.
  
  
• More Election News from the Middle East Than You’ll Find Anywhere Else on Television.  Link TV’s Jamal Dajani, Producer of MOSAIC: World News from the Middle East, will present highlights of Middle Eastern election coverage and analysis from over 24 different broadcasters in the region. These include Lebanon, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and others. Dajani will also look at  how half a million Arab voters in key states like Michigan, Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania will be voting.
  
  
• A Decidedly INTERNATIONAL View of the Election. Viewers will learn how the rest of the world is reacting to election results. Included are reports from Western Europe, Latin America, the Middle East  and Asia. Leading the international analysis team will be Chalmers Johnson, President of the Japan Policy Research Institute, Global Exchange’s Ana Perez, UC-Berkeley's Jonathan Levy, and others.
  
  
• Breaking Election Day Online and Blog News.  In recognition of the major role the online community and bloggers have played in this election, Link TV will reporting on the top election-related Internet stories. Stewart Cheifet of the Internet Archive, called the "dean of TV technology journalists” and the "original TV techie", will be monitoring the Internet and top political blogs in real time. He’ll report on the breaking election stories as they unfold online and will highlight the top election stories that broke on the Internet.  Cheifet’s techie credentials include serving as the host of two PBS television series on technology - Computer Chronicles and Net Cafe and as a technology commentator for NPR's All Things Considered. He was named by AdWeek magazine as one of the five most influential broadcast journalists in the field of technology.

ADDTIONAL STUDIO AND CALL-IN GUESTS INCLUDE:

Greg Palast, author and BBC correspondent, who has reported extensively about Florida's voting irregularities in 2000 and 2004.

Steven Hill, author of Fixing Elections: The Failure of America's Winner-Take-All Politics.

Gloria Duffy, CEO of The Commonwealth Club, will discuss the international reaction to the election.

HOW TO PROTECT YOUR VOTE ON ELECTION DAY:

To find your polling place, click here.

If you want to volunteer to be a “mystery voter” and help collect polling data and exit polls, visit votewatch.us

Sign up to be a poll watcher at electionprotectionvolunteer.org.

To resolve legal voting questions or report voting problems, call the non-partisan Election Protection Coalition at 1-866-OUR VOTE (687-8683).

For a map of the specific voting technology used in your area, visit verifiedvoting.org. 

To report an election irregularity, visit voteprotect.org

To recieve Action Alerts, send a letter or fax to a member of congress, sign and circulate a petition, or download the Voter's Guide to Electronic Voting (PDF format) or the Poll Monitor's & Poll Worker's Guide to Electronic Voting (PDF format), visit verifiedvoting.org.  This organization has 1300 technicians all over the country standing by to monitor any electronic election irregularities.