Introducing RaiseYourVote.com

from Natalie Foster, New Media Director, Organizing for America

We just launched RaiseYourVote.com, the centerpiece of our huge voter registration effort.

RaiseYourVote.com isn't just a voter registration site. It serves as a powerful clearinghouse for voter information across the country -- armed with pretty much everything you need to know to cast your ballot. It even automatically personalizes to the user's location -- so when you visit the site, you'll see voter information for your state.

But the power of a site like this depends on how many voters see it.

Check out RaiseYourVote.com today -- and please share it with your friends.

The 2008 election was a pivotal moment for our democracy. We saw 15 million people cast ballots for the first time and millions more vote for the first time in decades. These voters helped put President Obama over the top, and made the difference in tight races across the country.

This site is about ensuring that we build on that same energy this year. Congressional elections are known to have lower participation than those for president, so we're starting early with a tool that will help get more Americans involved. And, really, RaiseYourVote.com is just the online part of our unprecedented voter registration efforts already under way on the ground, which we're ramping up with a national voter registration day of action across the country on July 17th.

Casting a ballot shouldn't be too hard or confusing for anyone -- and we're trying to make it as easy as possible for everyone to get the information they need. In fact, we even created a RaiseYourVote.com "widget" that users can install on their own blogs or websites, making it easy for people everywhere to make registering to vote as simple as possible.