Gerti Garner and Caroline Hall

The election is fewer than 100 days from now and many people may want to get involved so that the policies they support come to fruition. There are many ways to engage: writing postcards, knocking on doors, or staffing phone banks. Many of us don’t know how to get involved. Here are some ideas to help.

The League of Women Voters (LWV) has been a go-to organization for as long as I can remember. People trust them and they are non-partisan. Here are links to the LWV websites in the counties that the Diocese of El Camino Real serves:

Santa Clara
o http://www.lwvlamv.org
o http://www.my.lwv.org/california/southwest-santa-clara-valley
Santa Cruz
o http://www.lwvscc.org
Monterey
o http://www.my.lwv.org/california/monterey-county
San Luis Obispo
o http://www.lwvslo.org
State-wide
o http://www.lwvc.org

GET OUT THE VOTE

Our democratic process depends on people voting. The 2020 Presidential Election had a high turnout with 66.6% of the population voting. You can help make this year as representative by helping to get people to the polls locally, and through post-carding with one of these organizations.

Center for Common Ground is a non-partisan organization that focuses on getting the vote out in states with 20% or more people of color, www.centerforcommonground.org

The Environmental Voter Project focuses on encouraging those who are concerned about the environment to vote. www.environmentalvoter.org.

RESOURCES FOR YOUR CONGREGATION

The Episcopal Church has provided a Communications Toolkit with bulletin inserts for Election Engagement This features 6 Sundays of bulletin inserts in English and Spanish and ready-to-go graphics for social media and newsletters to make it easier for you to plug election engagement into your church’s communications. You can use these graphics, bulletin inserts, and other printable and electronic material to help your church be of service in your community for the 2024 election.  

Sharing accurate information is critical. Our goal is to lift up voting as a responsibility and opportunity to engage in a constructive way in our communities, as a means of living our faith as Episcopalians. Each bulletin insert focuses on a different aspect of voting: 

• September 15th National Voter Registration Day 
• October 6th National Voter Education Week 
• October 13th Why Does Voting Matter? 
• October 20th Misinformation in Campaigns 
• October 27th Vote Early Day 
• November 3rd Vote Faithfully Sunday 

Included in the toolkit is a “how-to” document to help make posting that much easier. 

Leave us a comment about how you are getting involved – we would love to hear from you.