Reclaim Our Vote Webinar and Training: Getting Out Georgia's Suppressed Vote with the Georgia ACLU and DJ BOVA
Start: 2020-06-06 10:00:00 UTC Pacific Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-07:00)
End: 2020-06-06 11:00:00 UTC Pacific Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-07:00)
This is a virtual event
Open Mic with DJ BOVA
A Zoom link will be sent closer to the event, so be sure to register.
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Reclaim Our Vote is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that fights voter suppression by registering and mobilizing vulnerable voters of color in statewide elections.
We reach out to voters of color in rural areas by phonebanking, writing postcards, textbanking, and geofencing. Most recently, we helped increase Virginia’s statewide turnout in November’s General Assembly elections by 11% by making 55,000 calls to voters, mailing 180,000 postcards, and developing a Give a Ride to the Polls app. We are a registered 501(c)3 nonpartisan organization.
To quote our founder, “we do not encourage people to vote for any particular person or party; we simply encourage people to vote!” We are led by people of color for people of color.
In the U.S, there are 16.6 million inactive/deregistered voters of color, many from voter-suppression states.
Voters in voter-suppression states face some common barriers to voting:
Felony disenfranchisement – impacts 7 million voters
Voters de-activated/de-registered for not voting
Strict Photo ID laws
No same day registration/No automatic voter registration
Voter intimidation at the polls
Closed polling locations with no advance notice
Right now, we are contacting over half a million young (18 - 24 years old) voters of color in the seven states along the Southern Black Belt that have strict voter ID laws and a Senate race this year:
Texas (38 electoral votes)
North Carolina (16 electoral votes)
Georgia (16 electoral votes)
Arizona (11 electoral votes)
South Carolina (9 electoral votes)
Alabama (9 electoral votes)
Mississippi (9 electoral votes)
We’re helping them access the resources they need in order to do so, such as a voter ID and a ride to the polls.
Our voters are often poor, rural, face a technological divide, and have been abandoned by political campaigns. One of our volunteers called a woman last week who had never received a phone call from a political campaign despite having the same number for over 15 years!
Our phonebanks are particularly effective because we contact voters who are overlooked by traditional campaigns. We inform them to help them use their vote as their voice. We go where other campaigns don’t, bringing new districts and areas into play.