Worried about voter suppression? There's an App for that.

Courtesy of Fox News Latino:

The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, National Association of Latino Appointed and Elected Officials Education Fund, New Organizing Institute Education Fund, Rock the Vote and the Verified Voting Foundation joined forces to release a new smartphone app to empower voters. 

Defenders of the right to vote have a new high-tech weapon in their arsenal. 

A consortium of civil rights groups unveiled a smartphone application Thursday as part of a comprehensive strategy to combat what it called a nationwide effort to disenfranchise minority and youth voters. 

"The Election Protection smartphone app is a dynamic tool that will educate voters on their rights and empower them to take action so they can vote," said Barbara Arnwine, executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, on a Thursday conference call with other organizations that developed the app. 

The free app is a "critical tool in our fight against voter suppression," Arwine said, referring to recent state voter identification laws that aroused concerns among civil rights advocates. 

The tool gives voters the ability to digitally verify their registration status, find their polling place, encourage their friends and family to vote, fill out voter registration forms, and contact election protection officials, amongst other means to encourage voting.

Well considering the fact that the GOP is clearly going to throw everything they have at us to keep us from voting this election cycle we could certainly use all of the help we can get.

And how cool is it that we have such a technological marvel at our fingertips to help us protect our civil rights?

Now we just have to make sure that this gets into the hands of those who are desperately going to need it.