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It’s Up to Us Now – Voting Access for All (VAAC)

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We have a double Angel Match for VAAC today!

Just $450 left on the double-angel match.

To help goose our current effort along, we’re running two Angel matches at once, which gives us a double angel match for donations up to $100.  Which are then matched by the external match that VAAC found for us.  So donations up to $100 are a 6x match.

So $100 = $600, $75 = $450, $50 = $300, $25 = $150, $10 = $60, $5 = $30.

To count toward the double match, tell us about your donation in the comments, or send me an email message.

VAAC is doing great work:

  1. Going to prisons and jails to educate the incarcerated on their right to vote (and get them registered and out to vote in the Fall).
  2. Educating County clerks on the law and providing them with written materials regarding voting rights to distribute to the incarcerated and the released.
  3. Going to High Schools schools, mostly in the Detroit area, to put on assemblies regarding the importance of voting and voting rights and getting students registered.
  4. Going to “expungement fairs” (legal clinics with volunteer lawyers) to register and motivate voters.
  5. Going to homeless shelters to educate the unhoused on their right to vote, even without a permanent address.
  6. Motivating voters to participate by emphasizing the state and local elections that have an impact on the criminal justice system.

Open thread!

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  2. 2.

    WaterGirl

    Someone asked in a thread this week how we get the young people to register and vote.

    Check out #3 on the list above.

    In Michigan, 16-year olds can pre-register to vote!  And VAAC is going into schools, talking about the importance of voting, and helping to get the young pups pre-registered to vote.

    They will tell us more about that at the zoom with VAAC on Wednesday!

    Please RSVP for the zoom if you haven’t already.

  3. 3.

    Joy in FL

    I just put in $12.57. I was trying to get the total to $8866.66, but someone donated right before me! Good for them.

    I do enjoy playing with the weird totals we sometimes get. I am out of “discretionary income” for a few days, but I gave in to my futile urge on this one : )   It looks like my math was off also. I should have not done the math in my imagination : )

  4. 4.

    WaterGirl

    I think the NY trial is sucking all the oxygen out of the room – I know that’s been true for me!

    So we are way behind on this fundraising effort, which is why we are holding the double Balloon Juice angel match up to $100.  In case you didn’t read the details in the post up top, that means donations up to $100 end up at 6x the donation amount.

  9. 9.

    DEBG

    I donated $55–I was born and went to high school in Detroit, so I want to support efforts there.

  14. 14.

    H.E.Wolf

    It is always up to us. That’s a good thing!

    I would rather rely on a nationwide community of people who understand the need to vote, including the folks VAAC is reaching out to enfranchise, than some individual on the national stage who is seen as a hero/savior figure.

  15. 15.

    greengoblin

    Pitched in $100.00. I hope this fundraiser gets on track as this work is so important.

  21. 21.

    Melancholy Jaques

    Kicked in 25, plus 5 tip. Likely can give more the next time. I’m in a transitional period.

  22. 22.

    frosty

    Another $50 from me. Thanks WG and Angels!​​ I have cousins in Michigan and I sent them this link and info on VAAC awhile ago.

  29. 29.

    Madeleine

    @WaterGirl: WG and others, there is an organization called the Civics Center whose only work is to get 16- and 17-year-olds registered to vote where that is possible. They provide kits to enable high school students to hold registration drives in their schools. They need non-students like us to do things like call schools to contact administrators/teachers who could get them connected to students. I’ve done that.

    Edited, corrected

  31. 31.

    WaterGirl

    @Madeleine: That’s funny, we are already in contact with Civics Center, trying to arrange a call with them to confirm whether it would be a good fit, as it seems like it might be.

  32. 32.

    JAFD

    Good evening, jackals !

    As I’ve mentioned, with the passing of Rep. Payne, there’ll be a special primary and general election in his district, which yours truly resides in.  So I’m making assumption that I’ll be working those election days, and am putting in $100,  from the bucks I might make, to the cause.

    Today’s also Katherine Hepburn’s birthday.  A few decades ago, I courted a young lady who was a definite Ms. Hepburn ‘wannabee’ (before that term was coined).  If you know an AnneMarie, tell her I hope she’s happy and healthy.

  36. 36.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @WaterGirl:

    I know I signed up for the Zoom, but now I can’t remember when it is, nor can I find it in your post or comment. Help an elderly mob enforcer out, please?

    EDIT: Oh, it’s Wednesday. Never mind /Emily Litella

  44. 44.

    WaterGirl

    @Barbara: I don’t know how I left you out of that message.  I went to each one in turn and hit reply!

    In any case, you were in the spreadsheet as comment 24, so you were definitely matched!

    Sorry to have left you out of the thank you. Obviously nothing personal! :-)

  46. 46.

    JaySinWA

    @WaterGirl: Do you actually have to tally our donations manually for the matches or does it happen just by using the donation portal?

  48. 48.

    FastEdD

    $25 to VAAC.

    bread, cabbage, lettuce, beans, boodle, clams, dinero, greenbacks, loot, pesos, moola, simoleans, and of course, bongo bucks.

  49. 49.

    WaterGirl

    @JaySinWA: I do it in a spreadsheet.  Why?

    Because we don’t match dollar for dollar, of any amount.  Matches are for a set amount, $25 or $50 or $100 or whatever it is for that particular match.

    So if the match is for up to $50, and I donate $75, only the $50 is matched.

    The spreadsheet does the math for me, though. :-)

  53. 53.

    JaySinWA

    @WaterGirl: Why?

    Because I was wondering if I really needed to post here for the match to happen and wondering what happens if others don’t or it’s after hours.

    So the portal doesn’t list individual donation amounts, just the raw totals?

    Thanks for taking on the administrative burden of make the matches happen.

  54. 54.

    wonkie

    Where’s the link? I’d like to donate. What is the group called? I googled VAAC and got some outfit concerned with volcanic ash.

  55. 55.

    WaterGirl

    @JaySinWA: ActBlue does list individual donation amounts.

    But it would be way more work to comb through those and pay attention to what the match amount was active at the time of the donation.

    It’s not a big burden to enter the comment number and donation amount into a spreadsheet.

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