Protect a Fair Election! Counter Voter Suppression!
Demand an accurate count!
On our latest ONE WILPF Call, our expert speakers recommended actions and tools to defend voting rights and an accurate vote count.
Here are multiple suggestions for actions, along with links for learning more - all as follow up on the August 13 ONE WILPF Call.
Pick your favorites and START RIGHT NOW!
See details below on each of the following:
- Insist the Senate Release the Billions Available for VOTING PROCESS UPDATES
- Support Senate passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
- Take Action to NORMALIZE the Idea of Delayed Voting Results
- Consider Volunteering to Write and Mail Postcards to Reluctant Voters
- Listen to the August 13 ONE WILPF Call: How WILPF Members Can Protect the Vote
- Make a Difference by Doing Something Different
- More Ways to Put Your Energy into the Most Vulnerable Communities
- Defend the Post Office
- Ways to Protect Your Own Vote
- Voting Resources From WILPF's Advancing Human Rights Committee
Insist the Senate Release the Billions Available for VOTING PROCESS UPDATES
Contact your Senator and write letters to the editor.
- The Senate must approve releasing to states the money to update voting machines and facilitate voting access in every state.
The $400 million allocated in March to fund state and local elections is insufficient to fund cost-effective election security measures, sufficient polling places, and poll worker and voter safety. The House HEROES Act allocates $3.6 Billion for emergency election support; the Senate has voted zero funds. State election officials are desperate.
Take Action to NORMALIZE the Idea of Delayed Voting Results
Contact local media, write letters to the editor, call in to local talk radio programs, post on social media, and speak up to friends and community! Prepare them for the idea:
- We must take the time to be sure the vote is accurate -- rather than rush to announce a winner on election night.
- Disinformation is insisting that delayed results could indicate tampering with the votes. But what is the reality? With so many more people mailing in votes, it simply takes longer to accurately count the votes and verify results.
Consider Volunteering to Write and Mail Postcards to Reluctant Voters
You can volunteer to write and mail cards -- or make calls from your home -- to undecided or unengaged voters. The
VOTEFORWARD Campaign is just one of these multiple initiatives, reaching out to potential voters across the country.
Your encouragement could convince them to confirm their registration and vote!
Additional voting support resources further below!
Listen to the August 13 ONE WILPF Call: How WILPF Members Can Protect the Vote
Our call presented Chris Carson, outgoing national President of League of Women Voters, and Molly McGrath, Advocacy Director for the Wisconsin American Civil Liberties Union. They shared the tools and information they offer their own members and the public.
Hear the recording of this call, or hear it again, by locating it on the ONE WILPF page of our WILPF US website.
WILPF planned this call in cooperation with the WILPF liaison to the Poor People's Campaign and leadership of WILPF's Advancing Human Rights (AHR) Issue Committee. Martha Collins, one of the AHR Chairs introduced and interviewed the speakers.
You can listen to the entire call -- including announcements and updates from Solidarity Action planners -- or simply listen to the featured Facts Not Fear segment.
Our next ONE WILPF Call is on Thursday, September 10, 2020, at 7 pm EDT/4 pm PDT.
Make a Difference by Doing Something Different: Information from WILPF partner, the Poor People's Campaign
- How to find them
- How to deliver information to them and encourage them to vote.
- This site also provides state-by-state updates on local voting details.
More Ways to Put Your Energy into the Most Vulnerable Communities
Your work protecting the right to vote in these often disenfranchised communities can make a big difference!
Contact Congress members immediately and write letters to the editor:
Stop attacks on the US Postal Service (USPS)!
Here are some talking points:
- Under the Trump administration, the USPS has become a political football:
- The Koch-funded nonprofit, Americans for Prosperity, has lobbied heavily against a bailout of the USPS.
- Treasury Secretary Mnuchin demanded "sweeping operational control" of the USPS in exchange for the emergency $10 billion loan to keep the agency afloat.
- Even before that, newly appointed Postmaster General DeJoy made damaging fundamental changes in staffing and policies.
- DeJoy's changes delay and degrade postal services needed for the 2020 elections and other basic mail services:
- removing and/or destroying mail handling equipment, including destroying approximately 500 mail sorting machines
- laying off staff
- decreasing hours for remaining staff members
- How can DeJoy meet ethics requirements regarding disclosure, divestment, and recusal, when he owns $30.1 million to $75.3 million in assets of USPS competitors or contractors?
Keep up the pressure right through to November 3.
For more information on post office politics, see note at end.
Ways to Protect Your Own Vote
Voting Resources From WILPF's Advancing Human Rights Committee
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the obstacles many already face when voting.
Even before the pandemic, Native Americans, Black, and Latinx voters, and voters with disabilities too often faced long lines, inaccessible voting locations, and outright hostility by election officials.
For more information on vote protection and to work with others on vote protection projects, contact Joan Goddard, Program Chair: joan[at]rujo.org
Post Office Politics
Links to Additional Information
