You can help National Public Radio spot the efforts of independent groups to sway voter opinion. These groups aren’t part of any campaign but make no mistake about it, they use “push polls”, robo-calls, and all sorts of advertising in print, radio and television to help the candidate of their choice.

NPR’s Peter Overby has been doing stories on this activity and NPR has set up a web page where you can report what you’ve seen and heard. You can see that page here.

The ultimate goal is to make sure we all know who is behind this stuff. If one of these groups crosses your path and you think that a little more transparency would help the political process , we hope you’ll let NPR know. To see the stories Peter has already done, you can go this page about the Secret Money Project.