2020 Election Activism Thread

[milano]

I thought maybe it would be helpful to have a thread dedicated to letter writing, postcard writing, text/phone banking, etc so we can help each other and ask questions as needed.

[fatpony]

In the last three days I’ve texted 900 voters for the national Democrat campaign (300 nationally, 300 to PA and 300 to VA) and 1000 voters for the DFL in Minnesota (and myself twice 🤣).

I also have 20 letters ready to send to voters in Florida about the importance of voting.

[milano]

I have been doing Vote Forward letters for a few weeks now and last night I signed up for postcard writing through Postcards to Voters. I keep refreshing my email waiting for my approval email to start. I did the text training for 2020 Victory but haven't actually texted yet - hoping to start this afternoon. I can't remember how to get back into ThruText on Slack so I'm researching that now,

[milano]

I'm also using some of my extra postcards to mail generic voting reminders to some of my friends & family in OH/PA that I am concerned might not prioritize voting. I kept my name off it and didn't reference any organizations so hopefully they take notice and vote.

[hawkeye2015]

I've been doing postcards for my congressional candidate and I signed up to text for her as well. I think I'm going to sign up to text for Biden today too.

[robot]

Here’s a good option for donating money or rallying friends/family to donate.

secure.actblue.com/donate/frrc-grassroots-fines-and-fees

This is to pay the fines and fees to restore voting rights to FL citizens. I worked on the campaign to pass the amendment so it’s near and dear to me.

ETA: the money needs to be raised in the next week I believe.

And I just saw this was posted in the main thread so sorry for the repeat!

[AmyG]

Sept 19, 2020 10:41:39 GMT -6 robot said:

Here’s a good option for donating money or rallying friends/family to donate.

secure.actblue.com/donate/frrc-grassroots-fines-and-fees

This is to pay the fines and fees to restore voting rights to FL citizens. I worked on the campaign to pass the amendment so it’s near and dear to me.

ETA: the money needs to be raised in the next week I believe.

And I just saw this was posted in the main thread so sorry for the repeat!

Cant we just somehow get bloomberg to pay the fines and fees?

[lizblue]

Haven’t investigated fully, but this is from the organizers of the Women’s March.

act.womensmarch.com/signup/volunteer-hub?source=em20200918&t=1&akid=368.32018.Vl7QHu&fbclid=IwAR2jz5otVdKZCSz6TDyyMG_4-SDCMRSjgScOwecEiZbp4AIRpeb9fLOxRVo

[Uncaripswife]

Sept 19, 2020 10:41:39 GMT -6 robot said:

Here’s a good option for donating money or rallying friends/family to donate.

secure.actblue.com/donate/frrc-grassroots-fines-and-fees

This is to pay the fines and fees to restore voting rights to FL citizens. I worked on the campaign to pass the amendment so it’s near and dear to me.

ETA: the money needs to be raised in the next week I believe.

And I just saw this was posted in the main thread so sorry for the repeat!

My understanding is that they've raised enough money, likely more than enough. The problem is that the state of Florida doesn't actually know how much each person owes, and the bureaucracy there is not really interested in sorting it out with any speed.

[robot]

Sept 19, 2020 12:37:02 GMT -6 Uncaripswife said:

Sept 19, 2020 10:41:39 GMT -6 robot said:

Here’s a good option for donating money or rallying friends/family to donate.

secure.actblue.com/donate/frrc-grassroots-fines-and-fees

This is to pay the fines and fees to restore voting rights to FL citizens. I worked on the campaign to pass the amendment so it’s near and dear to me.

ETA: the money needs to be raised in the next week I believe.

And I just saw this was posted in the main thread so sorry for the repeat!

My understanding is that they've raised enough money, likely more than enough. The problem is that the state of Florida doesn't actually know how much each person owes, and the bureaucracy there is not really interested in sorting it out with any speed.

Florida 😒

[KnightRyder]

Sept 19, 2020 9:00:39 GMT -6 fatpony said:

In the last three days I’ve texted 900 voters for the national Democrat campaign (300 nationally, 300 to PA and 300 to VA) and 1000 voters for the DFL in Minnesota (and myself twice 🤣).

I also have 20 letters ready to send to voters in Florida about the importance of voting.

Is it possible to text bit by bit? I did some phone banking, but my local Dems need a 2 hour commitment, and a 3 hour block to text. I really only have 5-10 consecutive minutes of free time most days, who can I text for, like, just as I’m available? Or should I be doing postcards instead?

[dc2london]

They cheat because they need to

Oops wrong thread. Tapatalk cuts off the activism bit

[AmyG]

Sept 19, 2020 12:37:02 GMT -6 Uncaripswife said:

Sept 19, 2020 10:41:39 GMT -6 robot said:

Here’s a good option for donating money or rallying friends/family to donate.

secure.actblue.com/donate/frrc-grassroots-fines-and-fees

This is to pay the fines and fees to restore voting rights to FL citizens. I worked on the campaign to pass the amendment so it’s near and dear to me.

ETA: the money needs to be raised in the next week I believe.

And I just saw this was posted in the main thread so sorry for the repeat!

My understanding is that they've raised enough money, likely more than enough. The problem is that the state of Florida doesn't actually know how much each person owes, and the bureaucracy there is not really interested in sorting it out with any speed.

Can we just get Bloomberg to quickly hire some people to fix the florida likely computer issues in the next few weeks?

[sweetpea]

Sept 19, 2020 12:55:14 GMT -6 KnightRyder said:

Sept 19, 2020 9:00:39 GMT -6 fatpony said:

In the last three days I’ve texted 900 voters for the national Democrat campaign (300 nationally, 300 to PA and 300 to VA) and 1000 voters for the DFL in Minnesota (and myself twice 🤣).

I also have 20 letters ready to send to voters in Florida about the importance of voting.

Is it possible to text bit by bit? I did some phone banking, but my local Dems need a 2 hour commitment, and a 3 hour block to text. I really only have 5-10 consecutive minutes of free time most days, who can I text for, like, just as I’m available? Or should I be doing postcards instead?

You typically have to text 300 at a time before you can see any replies. But each text takes a couple of seconds since the message is pre-populated with the text. I will text 300 ppl around 11 and then answer replies during lunch. 

Postcards are great to do during the evening while watching whatever trash is on Bravo

[elle]

XP for anyone looking for a state to target, Florida is a great choice:

[Deleted]

A friend of mine shared this website, which will connect you to various volunteer opportunities:

www.winforrbg.com/?source=yourorgname

[AmyG]

If we need to get Hispanic voters, they need to be reached out to by Hispanic voters themselves for best results.
Not sure how to achieve that in the numbers that will really make a difference tho

[fatpony]

Sept 19, 2020 12:55:14 GMT -6 KnightRyder said:

Sept 19, 2020 9:00:39 GMT -6 fatpony said:

In the last three days I’ve texted 900 voters for the national Democrat campaign (300 nationally, 300 to PA and 300 to VA) and 1000 voters for the DFL in Minnesota (and myself twice 🤣).

I also have 20 letters ready to send to voters in Florida about the importance of voting.

Is it possible to text bit by bit? I did some phone banking, but my local Dems need a 2 hour commitment, and a 3 hour block to text. I really only have 5-10 consecutive minutes of free time most days, who can I text for, like, just as I’m available? Or should I be doing postcards instead?

You can special request smaller batches

[Sweetjane]

act.sierraclub.org/actions/National?actionId=AR0265436

Sierra Club is who I signed up with last week, before RBG passed.
Now I am even more motivated by everything she accomplished in her lifetime. The least I can do is write some letters and have my kids help me.

[byjove]

I picked up some post cards and all of the address are for Alaska. Wasn’t expecting that.

[roloma]

I got signed up to write Vote Forward letters. I’m going to download my group tomorrow and get started so I’m ready to go.

And, of course, I’m throwing out some monies.

[milano]

I can't emphasize enough how easy writing Vote Forward letters are. Plus you don't send them out until the end of October so lots of time left to write.

[beaf12]

I signed up for the text bank training.

[dc2london]

Sept 19, 2020 21:30:46 GMT -6 @icedtea said:

I am in contact with my local rep on ways I can help out (I wanted to do phone banking for her, but the concussion stuff makes me less reliable for that kind of thing).

I just did text training with Victory2020. But every time I've tried to get texts since then, they've been out lol. But that's good to see!

I just signed up with Grassroots Dems and Postcards to Voters. I need to send the test one for the latter.

I adopted NC via Vote Save America.

I need to see how many postcards I can get done at a time and then I'm going to try to sign up for more stuff, and possibly another texting campaign.

You can sign up here to text for Mark Kelly

go.markkelly.com/page/s/volunteer-signup

[dc2london]

Vote Save America is running voter registration drives by phone in battleground states on Tuesday. There are shifts throughout the day. Training will be provided.

www.mobilize.us/nextgen/event/319606/

[jkjacq]

I have text bank training Thursday and signed up with vote forward.

I’m trying to get over talking to people but I spend half my day on the phone I don’t know if I can do more. Plus my mouth might do more harm than good

[lemondrop]

I was focusing on smaller campaigns  but I reached out to Cal Cunningham’s team yesterday. I also donated my upcoming bonus to Sara Gideon, Cunningham, Hickenlooper and Jaime Harrison. I’ve done some postcard writing and helped 2 campaigns put up signs around town, but I really need to do more.

Fuck the GOP.

[sctiger]

I want to adopt Florida and text for them. I see Digital Community Training that I can do on Tuesday and then a specific training for the text team but training isn't until the 29th. Would either allow me to text bank? I'm finding some of this confusing.

[sctiger]

I got it! I'm signed up to text for Ohio the next two Sundays and I have training for Florida texting tomorrow at 5!

[catspajamas]

MH and I did 40 Vote Forward letters for TX last week, have a batch of 40 for OH to do tonight, and then will do 40 for FL later this week.

I have Victory2020 text bank training on Thurs a.m.

I've been donating and posting all over social media.

That's all I've got for now but will comb this thread for ideas!