Open Threads

We have added our two North Carolina organizations!

Ballot Curing: identify, contact, and assist voters whose ballots are challenged as deficient.

They expect to need to “cure” 150,000 ballots in North Carolina, and they don’t have very many days to do it.  Our funding will allow them to keep their canvassers to contact voters whose ballots need to be cured.  I’m super excited about this.

If you notify someone about something that needs to be corrected, and help them understand the process, provide transportation, or whatever is needed to resolve the problem – that’s 1 more voter whose vote gets counted.  So the rewards are enormous!

Angel Matching

We have starting Angel matches of $1,000 for all 4 organizations.  Details will be in comment #1 below.

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Four Directions – Native Vote in Montana (Jon Tester Boost)

Four Directions is expanding their work with multiple tribes, and more funding will allow them to reach more people.

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Nebraska Senate Field Organizing (Dan Osborn)

We made arrangements with the Osborn campaign for our funds to be used solely for field organizing!

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NC Black Alliance – Election Protection / Ballot Curing

Our North Carolina partners predict that there will be 150,000 ballots in November that need “curing” to correct minor things that must be fixed in order for a person’s vote to count.  Not a typo:  150,000 ballots!

There is so much work to be done post-election in order for people’s votes to count:  identify, contact, and assist voters whose ballots are challenged as deficient.

In an election likely to have razor-thin margins, these challenged votes could change the outcome!

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NCAAT in Action – Election Protection / Ballot Curing (NC Asian Americans Together)

Our North Carolina partners predict that there will be 150,000 ballots in November that need “curing” to correct minor things that must be fixed in order for a person’s vote to count.  Not a typo:  150,000 ballots!

There is so much work to be done post-election in order for people’s votes to count:  identify, contact, and assist voters whose ballots are challenged as deficient.

In an election likely to have razor-thin margins, these challenged votes could change the outcome!

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North Carolina – 3 Key Judicial Candidates

Allison Riggs – NC State Supreme Court Justice (KEEP)

The seven-justice NC Supreme Court has a 5-2 Republican majority.  The MAGA court threw out a voting rights case and allowed the legislature free reign to gerrymander the state.  Justice Riggs is a social justice attorney who was appointed by Governor Roy Cooper, and is up for partisan reelection against a Republican challenger who ruled that life begins at conception while on the Court of Appeal.  More about Judge Riggs here.

Carolyn Thompson – NC Court of Appeals  (KEEP)

Incumbent Judge Thompson is also up for partisan re-election.  She is African-American and focused on victims of domestic violence while in private practice.  As a state legislator, her opponent, Thomas Murry, tried to exempt NC from the ACA and pushed draconian voter ID laws.  More on Judge Thompson here.

Raymond Smith – Challenger, State Senate (FLIP!)  

Raymond Smith is an African American Gulf War veteran and former NC state Assembly member.  Smith was drawn out of his district (total coincidence, I’m sure!)  so he is running to flip a Senate seat in the Goldsboro area and shatter the Republican super-majority.  Let’s hope the Republican power move backfires on them. More on Raymond Smith here.

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