We want to extend a special thanks to our members who have been working on registering community colleges students to vote. If you are thinking of taking this on in the fall, please get in touch with Deborah Popper at deborah.popper3@gmail.com so she can put you in touch with our great team of Kathy and David. They have good materials for you to use and excellent advice about what works.
We urge you to check out the Brennan Center for Justice, particularly their work on the vote— www.brennancenter.org/issues. They have helpful in-formation on voting threats and what needs to be done. Check out where your own state stands on issues like ease of registration, aggressive purging of voter rolls, and access for former felons. The Brennan Center is concerned about both voter and election worker intimidation. Vermont is the most recent state to ban guns at polling places, joining 11 other states. See what you can do about it. Read the report “How States Can Prevent Election in 2024 and Beyond,” at www.brennancenter.org/issues/defend-our-elections.
We also encourage you to review the work of Common Cause, especially their efforts to protect the vote—see www.commoncause.org/our-work/voting-and-elections/election-protection/. Common Cause offers training for poll workers, and it staffs hotlines for addressing questions and responding to challenges.
We also ask you to keep writing postcards and to help with phone banking with the following organizations:
Activate America: thirdact.org/act/write-postcards-to-voters-in-2024/
The Environmental Voters Project: https://www.environmentalvoter.org.
You may also want to check out the work of Galvanize America to see what they do to raise awareness and energize voters to support their values: www.commoncause.org/our-work/voting-and-elections/election-protection/.