Robert F. Kennedy, jr started No Voter Left Behind to counter the electoral crimes of 2000 and 2004, and make sure that they don't wreck the 2008 elections. The Democratic Party and the Obama Campaign had a multitude of lawyers on standby in swing states. Lawsuits in several states were needed to prevent illegally throwing people off the voter registration rolls, or to restore them. One case in Ohio went to the Supreme Court.

Obama has won his election, but this fight is not over. There is a runoff election for the US Senate in Georgia between Jim Martin (D) and Saxby Chambliss (R). Chambliss ran by far the sleaziest campaign of 2002, accusing Vietnam war veteran and multiple amputee Max Cleland of being unpatriotic. Voter suppression is rampant this year. Volunteers are needed nationwide to phonebank for the runoff.

Methods of vote suppression before Election Day include

• Removing properly registered voters from the rolls using very loose matching with lists of convicts, foreclosures, and other kinds of information, without public notice
• Rejecting registration forms for trivial errors
  
• Removing voters for failing to respond to mailed notices, even if they were serving in the military overseas
  
• Sending false information of many kinds to voters: incorrect ID requirements, incorrect polling places, even incorrect voting day, threats that people with outstanding traffic tickets would be arrested, claims that wearing an Obama shirt or pin would prevent people from voting, and on and on
• Throwing away registration forms for the "wrong" party
• Failing to send absentee ballots in time

Election Day and Early Voting problems include

• Setting absurdly short hours for Early Voting
• Failing to provide enough provisional ballot forms at polls
• Requiring specific forms of government-issued ID at the polls
• Refusing to fix problems at the polls
  
• Closing polls even with long lines waiting
• Providing poor quality voting systems, and not enough of them, creating extremely long lines at the polls
• Using incompetently-programmed and easily-hacked voting machines
  
• Jamming telephone lines set up to report problems