| | | Can't see this email? Read Online |  | | Briefing 2020: Educating Voters Ahead of November Election—Voting Booth | Zoom Briefing: Joe Conason interviews reporter Steven Rosenfeld on the clear message that voting organizations, activists and public interest media organizations should explain to voters ahead of the national election: Make a plan to vote. Know your options. Ignore partisan noise.
When: Friday, August 21, 2020, at 12 p.m. EST
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Participants: - Steven Rosenfeld, Editor, Chief Correspondent and Senior Writing Fellow for Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
- Joe Conason, Editor-in-Chief of the National Memo, Editor-at-Large and Senior Fellow at the Type Media Center, and regular columnist for Creators Syndicate, distributed to publications nationally.
Introduction:
This is the moment where voting organizations, activists and organizers, and the many thousands of voting experts and lawyers can educate and prepare the public for their options ahead of this year’s national elections. It is critical to tell voters to make a plan to vote, and ignore the partisan noise.
The call will discuss: - Never before will so many Americans vote from home using mailed-out ballots. Yet many voters, especially in communities of color, cherish voting in person. They want to see votes cast and received, even if that means waiting for hours in primaries with far fewer polling places.
- The Independent Media Institute’s Voting Booth project has studied 2020’s spring and summer primaries and produced a guide for voters to successfully cast a ballot this fall. The “2020 Fall Voter Guide: How to Make Sure Your Vote Is Counted” is based on the latest trends, lessons learned, the legal and procedural landscape, and what will not be likely to change for voters this fall.
- The guide urges voters to have a plan. That plan starts with ensuring that one’s voter registration information and signature are current. The voting guide explains how to do that. The guide also reminds voters that there are three ways to vote—from home via a mailed-out ballot, before Election Day at an in-person early voting site, and on Election Day, November 3, in most states. It discusses the pros and cons of each way to vote, including what voters need to do if something goes wrong.
- New ways of voting are always challenging for voters and officials. But even in a pandemic, the surest way to have elections with irrefutable results is when the turnout is historic, the process is orderly and victory margins are wide. Voting Booth’s “2020 Fall Voter Guide: How to Make Sure Your Vote Is Counted ” tells voters how to cast a ballot that will be counted this fall.
Background reading:
https://go.ind.media/e/546932/-sure-your-vote-counts-in-2020/gfqtdy/672331672?h=8YajEV1avW9Prc1zbA-XUbjuQSo3JnKg21c4fB_7MFs |
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