Your Congregation Can Mobilize Voters Now!
The Reeb Project for Voting Rights and UUSJ are teaming up through November to fight voter suppression, improve ballot access and help people register to vote.
With polling places shutting down due to the coronavirus and a shift to mail-in ballots, it is critical that all Americans are able to vote. We are targeting regions particularly vulnerable to voter suppression and collaborating with area partner organizations and UU congregations.
Since in-person canvassing looks unlikely, we’re developing other ways to talk to voters, individually and as a denomination. This includes phone banking, text messaging and writing letters and postcards.
We’ll be rolling out our first project — with the help of Reclaim Our Vote (the electoral wing of the NAACP) – in a few weeks. It involves sending postcards to North Carolina voters in danger of being purged from the rolls, urging them to confirm their identity with the N.C. secretary of state. And, helping voters already purged to re-register before the deadline.
If you and/or members of your congregation are interested in hosting or joining a virtual postcard party, contact Kelsey Cowger, the Reeb/UUSJ Voting Campaign Organizer, at kelsey@uusj.org
Don’t forget – Save the Date – June 17
Meet Kelsey Cowger – Get Your Congregation Mobilizing Voters
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
7:30 – 8:30pm ET
RSVP Here – Zoom details to follow upon registration
Join the Zoom meeting/webinar to discuss our UU the Vote projects in more detail and to talk through how to organize a campaign for electoral reform in your own congregation. This session will serve as an opportunity to meet Kelsey Cowger, the Reeb/UUSJ Voting Campaign organizer, and bring your questions! UUSJ has joined forces and pooled resources with the Reeb Project for Voting Rights to hire Kelsey as an organizer through November 2020.
Kelsey will help UUs fight voter suppression, improve ballot access, register voters and connect the joint project with the broader UU the Vote initiative. This partnership is an exciting opportunity to broaden UUSJ’s impact by expanding our voter mobilization programs, which have a strong record of success and collaboration in past elections.
