{"id":23054,"date":"2020-10-01T17:21:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T21:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/?p=23054"},"modified":"2020-10-01T17:23:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T21:23:28","slug":"vote2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/vote2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since we are working virtually this year, we can see measurable results after every action: new voters registered, clicks on our voter information website, mail ballots applied for, commitments to vote. UUs nationwide have made 1.3 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">million<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> voter contacts this year!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ve also harnessed the people power in our congregations: we have active electoral organizations in 15 congregations in the District Maryland and Virginia and many more in the broader UUSJ network. Some 597 new volunteers from UUSJ completed at least one electoral action since May 2020, and 376 from the Reeb Project. Many are people who are doing this work for the first time. More than ever, UUs are stepping up to do the crucial work we are called to do by our Fifth and Sixth Principles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you again for letting me share in this incredible work. I am humbled by the hard work and passion of my fellow UUs every day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kelsey Cowger<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UUSJ\/Reeb Project Voting Campaigns Organizer<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we are working virtually this year, we can see measurable results after every action: new voters registered, clicks on our voter information website, mail ballots applied for, commitments to vote. UUs nationwide have made 1.3 million voter contacts this year!\u00a0 We\u2019ve also harnessed the people power in our congregations: we have active electoral organizations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/vote2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vote2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23055,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23054\/revisions\/23055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}