About the SOS Project
The Secretary of State Project was created by concerned citizens to provide an easy-to-use, low-cost vehicle for online donations to key Secretary of State races. Read a recent USA Today front page story featuring our work: "Top vote counter becomes prize job."
Becky Bond directed a nonpartisan campaign in 2004 that registered over one million low-income and minority voters. She works for a socially progressive mobile telephone company based in San Francisco.
Megan Hull was a Project Director for Democracy Reform at the Center for Civic Participation*. In 2004, she was a Co-Director of the coalition that investigated polling place problems and vote counting irregularities in Ohio and New Mexico.
Michael Kieschnick is a social entrepreneur based in San Francisco. He is also a board member of the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, the Ballot Initiatives Strategy Center Foundation and Sojourners, among other progressive organizations.*
James Rucker is founder of ColorOfChange.org*. Founded in the wake of Katrina, ColorOfChange.org is the leading online citizen lobby for African-Americans and their allies. Formerly, Rucker was Director of Grassroots Mobilization at MoveOn.org.
*Organizational affiliation listed for identification purposes only.
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Web site design and strategy
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Donation Technology
ActBlue allows individuals, local groups, and national organizations to fundraise online for the Democratic candidates of their choice. Since June 2004 ActBlue has sent $7.2 million to over 500 Democratic candidates and committees.