Chop Wood, Carry NC 8/20

Hi, all!

Hope you’re enjoying the DNC as much as I am. WOWOWOW it’s so good.

It feels like the home stretch.  We are approaching GOTV time, the final few months before the election.

Absentee ballots will be mailed out in NC starting at the end of this month. This means that NC voters will start to cast their ballots in less than one month! 

After that, Early Voting starts Thursday, October 17. It runs seven days a week (in most counties) through Saturday, November 2. 

What’s the best use of your time? Anything you choose to do!!!  It’s all good, and there are lots of  choices.

Check out this up-to-date list of NC-related volunteer opportunities at: https://tinyurl.com/VotingRightsActions.

It includes:

• Register more voters virtually. Make calls or send texts with Field Team 6 (under Register Voters)

• Help people get photo IDs.  Sign up for a training with VoteRiders or join a collaborative text bank with VoteRiders and the New Rural Project (under Assist Voters in Obtaining Photo Identification and Rides to the Polls).

• Reach out by phone to people who may need rides (under Assist Voters in Obtaining Photo Identification and Rides to the Polls).

• Up your game and get more comfortable having genuine conversations with voters on the phone. Attend a training (under Build Your Skills) and then sign up (under Make Phone Calls or through the separate phone bank calendar). Some phone banks recruit volunteers, while others reach out directly to engage voters.

• Text voters (under Send Texts).

• Write postcards and letters if that is your jam.

For a day by day calendar of the phone banks through 9/1, click here.  

Overwhelmed by your choices?  Start with one that fits your schedule.  If you’re looking for the ‘right’ organization for you, pick one and see if you like it.  Every organization has its own flavor, so if the one you try first doesn’t work for you, sample a few others until you find your people! Remember that whatever you do will make a difference to the collective impact. 

And make it fun!  Enlist a friend, organize a postcard or letter writing party, or get together with friends when you join a text bank.  Find in person events near where you live!

Thanks, all! More soon!

Jess