Today is the day. Please make voting your #1 priority.

It’s not too late to make some last-minute phone calls! Make sure your family and friends all make it out! Some “Get Out The Vote” resources here and here.

Here are your important Election Day links and resources:

• Find your Polling Location at www.govote.org.
• Find out the times your polling location will be open.
• Put this number into your phone before you go to vote: 866-OUR-VOTE! (Call 888-VE-Y-VOTA for Spanish-language help). Call that number to report any problems.
• Any problems? Never walk away from the polls if you are having problems. Simply report the problem immediately to poll watchers on-site and then call 866-OUR-VOTE.
• If you are turned away, ask to vote by provisional ballot. You should be able to vote by provisional ballot right then. The ballots will be counted separately but should be added to the total within 7 days of Election Day.
• Any more questions? Check out the helpful Voter Resources page at NYT.
• If you see anything fishy, don’t hesitate to contact the media. CNN has a Voter Hotline: 877-GOCNN-08. Send photos and videos to iReport.com.
• Do you Twitter? Report problems, lines, delays, and any other such update to TwitterVoteReport.com. Check the site before you go to the polls to see if there are any problems in your area. Reader Simon O. lets us know about a really neat site showing fresh tweets of voters, displaying voters’ keywords in proportion of how many times that term was used by Obama voters versus McCain voters… in realtime… Really cool.
• Watch the results come in at an Obama party (search by zip code), Talking Points Memo, or FiveThirtyEight.com! Sign up for text message alerts at FiveThirtyEight.com by scrolling down and looking on the left-hand side of the web page, look for a light-blue box, and sign up!

Does every NYC vote count even though the state is likely to go for Obama? Absolutely. This was posted yesterday at The Politico:

A reader in New York City emails:

I was just contacted by my late grandfather’s union, to arrange transportation to the poll tomorrow for my elderly grandmother. After I made arrangements over the phone, I called my grandmother to be sure she wanted to vote, as she has not been feeling well lately. I explained to her that New York was sure to be won by her candidate (and mine), Barack Obama.

Grams showed a flash of anger. First, she said, she’d have to be dying not to vote tomorrow. Second, she said, and I quote: “If this thing gets to 269-269, we have to whoop McCain good in the popular vote to show the House of Representatives we mean business.”

Not bad for a frail 80-year old black woman with who didn’t finish middle school.

Best of luck to all candidates, but especially Barack Obama and progressive Democrats!

Now let’s change the country and change the world!

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Okay, yes, I am election obsessed.

And yes, Barack is looking pretty electable right now.

But let me paint a picture for you.

There are a handful of counties around Philadelphia: Berks County, Bucks County, Chester County, Delaware County, Lehigh County, and Northampton County. They are a mixture of suburban and rural… If Barack Obama does well in those counties, plus Philadelphia-proper and Pittsburgh, he wins Pennsylvania and makes it virtually impossible for McCain to pull off a dramatic last-minute upset.

Also, Pennsylvania does not have early voting. So for PA voters, it all comes down to one tiny slice of time out of one day of the year — from 7 am - 8 pm, tomorrow, Tuesday, November 4th — and that slice of time could very well determine the course of history.

Does every single vote matter? Yikes! Of course! Especially places like Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio.

Remember this: 537 people, out of millions, saying things like: “Nah, I just don’t have the time,” or, “I just don’t feel like it,” effectively gave George W. Bush the Presidency in 2000. Yes, George W. Bush beat Al Gore by 537 votes in the state of Florida in 2000, and thus took the Oval Office. And we’ve seen the results…

I’m just saying…. that if we don’t want a President who will deregulate the power industry to benefit the worst polluters…. if we don’t want a President who would rather cater to the NRA, logging, and drilling than protect endangered species…. if we don’t want a President who gives billions upon billions of dollars to massive corporations that produce unsafe food from factory farms…. if we don’t want a President who will refuse to stand up to Detroit and their 20 mpg cars…. if we don’t want a President who will promote “Drill, baby, drill” over 5 million green jobs…. if we don’t want a President who will stay in Iraq for 100 years or 1,000 years or will joke about bombing Iran….

THEN WE HAVE TO WIN THIS ELECTION.

We have to. And that means making sure PA stays blue.

They will slime, they will suppress, they will subvert…. but regardless of those underhanded tactics not trying hard enough to get Barack elected is simply not an option.

Okay, so what to do?

First, if you know anyone in PA, here are some important links for them:

• www.votespa.com — The Pennsylvania Department of State’s online voting information and resource center
• Find your polling place in Pennsylvania.
• VotesPA.com’s Voting Reminder Sign-up — receive alerts delivered right to your phone or computer
• Any questions? Contact your county elections representative.
• Any problems? Were you not allowed to vote for some reason? Was your voting machine switching your vote from Barack Obama to John McCain? Never walk away from the polls if you are having problems. Simply report the problem immediately to poll watchers on-site. If you are turned away, you should be able to vote by provisional ballot. You can vote by provisional ballot right then, and they will be counted separately but added to the total within 7 days of Election Day.
• If you have any problems or see anything fishy, don’t hesitate to contact the media. CNN has a Voter Hotline: 877-GOCNN-08. Send photos and videos to iReport.com. Another number to call is 866-OUR-VOTE (or 888-VE-Y-VOTA for Spanish-language help). Put that number into your cell phone before you go to the polls! Do you Twitter? Report problems, lines, delays, and any other such update to TwitterVoteReport.com.

And lastly, below is an email I sent to my whole address book yesterday. Feel free to copy and paste it into an email of your own:

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Hi,

So we have this big election on Tuesday. I have decided to do everything I can to help my candidate, Barack Obama.

My message is two-fold:

First: Please vote. Please make voting on Tues Nov 4th your #1 priority. Please be determined to cast your ballot come hell or high water. Vote as if your life depended on it. B/c the direction this country takes will drastically effect your life, as we have seen.

Second: Take 5. Please take 5 minutes and send an email to your whole address book. Call 5 people - or all people - in your cell phone. Take 5 people to the polls with you on Tuesday. Call 5 swing state voters. Meet up with 5 friends at a phone bank and make some calls (there are dozens of phone banks set up in cafes and clubs all over the place)… Please remind people to vote and ask them to remind 5 of their friends.

Here are some links/resources where you can help out… pass ‘em on!

• Find your Polling Location (and what you need to bring in order to vote, if anything):
  http://www.govote.org
• Call Swing States from Your Home:
  http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/phonebankmap
• Call Obama Voters in Swing States from Phone Banks in NYC-area (these are committed Obama voters, you’re just reminding them to get out and vote):
  http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/nylastcall/
• Obama Events, Gatherings, Parties, Phone Banks, etc (search by zip code and radius):
  http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/search_simple
• Call MoveOn.org Members in Battleground States:
  http://pol.moveon.org/obama/teams/index.html?id=14931-3543074-GKMyW2x&t=2
• Are you a lawyer? Volunteer to help the Obama Voter Protection Program make sure the election is fair and legal:
  http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/vpcvol2
• Got Friends + Fam in Florida? Schlep out the Vote!
  http://www.thegreatschlep.com/schlep/election_day_reminder
  http://www.thegreatschlep.com/schlep/phone_call
• NYC to Philly GOTV Trips:
  http://www.brooklynforbarack.org/2008/09/26/gotv-weekend-help-bring-pa-home-for-barack/
  http://www.brooklynforbarack.org/2008/09/25/oct-26-fired-up-for-philly-lets-bring-pa-home-for-barack/

Let’s get out the vote, and, as Barack says: “let’s change this country and change the world!”