Voter Protection
VOTER PROTECTION encompasses a wide range of activities all aimed at making sure everyone can vote and that every vote is counted. Volunteers text, email, call and do online research. It is very high value in terms of the degree to which the work leads to votes.
More specific actions include:
Recruiting poll workers from lists of activists
Letting people know that they have been placed on inactive status and need to take action to make sure they are on the voting rolls
Making sure that people who requested absentee or mail-in ballots vote and send them in (“ballot chase”)
Letting people know they need to correct their absentee or mail-in ballot because it was not filed properly and won’t be counted unless they take action (“ballot cure”)
Getting trained to staff the voter protection hotline
We coordinate our voter protection actions primarily through the all-volunteer group VoPro Pros. You can learn more about them CLICK HERE.
If you want to help, email us at swingleftnsca@gmail.com and put VOTER PROTECTION in the subject line.
Our Impact
This year it is more important than ever to take action to preserve our democracy. Working with VoPro Pros, we are concentrating on projects to make sure that every vote counts in the critical state of Pennsylvania.
At Swing Left North Shore/Cape Ann, we have put together a small but mighty group who are working as a team to contact PA voters who are on the INACTIVE list and are in danger of being removed from the voter rolls without their knowledge. This may result in not being able to vote in the November elections. With PA a critical swing state, ensuring that every potential Democratic voter is able to vote is a critical mission.
Since this project launched in March of this year, our volunteers have contributed to contacting thousands of potential voters and assisted on helping to reregister and apply for mail-in ballots.
During the last weeks leading up to election day, we will continue to engage additional volunteers to reach out to voters whose ballots have been rejected and correct the problem so that they can be counted. We are also actively looking for people to staff the voter hotlines during the final weeks of the election.
Interested? Email us at swingleftnsca@gmail.com and put VOTER PROTECTION in the subject line.
