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Unread 09-02-2020, 07:22 PM
Max Goodman Max Goodman is offline
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Default Election--How to Help

This is an important election, and many of us don't know how to contribute to it beyond voting. I, for one, want to feel come November that I did what I could. I'm starting this thread as a place for us to share ideas.

I'm volunteering with Vote Forward and writing to registered voters who are members of underrepresented communities and who don't frequently vote, encouraging them to vote this time. Vote Forward says studies have shown personal messages to be effective in motivating people to vote.

You can commit to as few as five letters and do more if and as you like.

Volunteers supply their own materials, including stamps; print out letters; add to each a sentence explaining their reasons for feeling voting is important; and mail the letters.

Given voter suppression and postal sabotage, this effort strikes me as both crucial and fraught. The organization realizes that its normal timeline will have to be adjusted and is in the process of making that adjustment. When exactly the letters should be mailed, they're still figuring out. Some time before October 27.

I'd like to do more, and welcome ideas.
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Unread 09-03-2020, 12:23 PM
Julie Steiner Julie Steiner is offline
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I'm going to argue incessantly online, and piss off potential allies, and generally do more harm than good.

Seriously though, through the League of Women Voters I'm also working on Voter's Edge California, a nonprofit, non-partisan website that helps California candidates present their priorities and qualifications to the public, for free.

If candidates don't have to accept so many donations in order to get their message out, they will owe fewer favors to donors after they're elected. Also, Voter's Edge won't let them mention their opponents, thus keeping a positive spotlight on their own strengths, rather than focusing on the shortcomings of someone else. This keeps the overall vibe of the site more solution-based than problem-based.

We're not ready to publish yet, but we're getting there. Max, one of the counties I'm managing is yours, so in a few weeks, once the candidates have submitted their info, you can tell me if I've done a good job.
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