How To Help Out When Your Vote Doesn't Count
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No. 3
Common Cause New York
Susan Lerner, Executive Director: “Common Cause is dedicated to helping citizens make their voices heard in the political process and to hold their elected leaders accountable to the public interest. We are the ‘people’s lobby,’ so to speak. In New York, Common Cause is dedicated to restoring the core values of American democracy, reinventing an open, honest, and accountable government that empowers ordinary people to make their voices heard. This Election Day, we’ll need your help—if you know your Assembly and Election districts you can “Cut the Line,” skipping the initial information table. You can volunteer to help us cut down on long lines of voters waiting to cast their ballots at the busiest polling places during the high-volume morning or evening hours by using our Cut the Line app on your smart phone or tablet.”
Common Cause website
No. 4
PollWatch
Jeremy Canfield, Service Designer: “We’ve built PollWatch [in conjunction with Common Cause] not in the service of a party or candidate but in the service of democracy, so that any voter can easily monitor what’s happening at his or her polling site. Voting is the fundamental act of democracy and, frankly, it is often a far more frustrating process than it should be. Without people reporting the specific problems at their polling sites, there is little chance those problems will get better. We need people to help us spread the word and, crucially, use the app on Election Day.”
PollWatch website
No. 5
The Arab-American Family Support Center
Rama Issa-Ibrahim, Development and Communications Associate: “Volunteers are an invaluable part of the AAFSC family, and we could not run our programs without their dedication and generous time-donations. As an organization we pledged to collect 150 voter registrations; we surpassed that number by collecting 185. AAFSC would not have been able to achieve this number if it wasn’t for our volunteers and interns who worked tirelessly everyday registering people to vote from all over Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Staten Island. Our volunteers have also been working on establishing workshops that focus on the fundamentals of voter engagement. These workshops will be presented to our clients as the elections approach. Fifty to 60 volunteers work in our Adult Education Program, helping our clients read, write and speak English as well as practice for their citizenship exams. Volunteering with us provides vital help in our mission to empower new immigrants with the tools they need to successfully acclimate to the world around them and become active participants in their communities.”
AAFSC website
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