First Steps: Easy Things to Do to Educate PWD Regarding Voting

The following suggestions help set the table. By themselves, they will not increase voter registration or turnout. The only way to increase turnout is with one on one contact via phone banks and mailings.

• Add to your voice mail message on cell, office and home phones, a short voting reminder.
• Add to your email signature a line about voting.
• Add to your fax transmittal cover a line about voting.
• Place in every newsletter and alert a short line about voting.
• Bring voter registration forms to every meeting, event, and rally.
• Periodically, include a voter registration form and application for an absentee ballot in constituent mailings.
• Add 1 line about voting to every speech and public presentation.

Be creative! Put your own touch to the message. Some examples are “Vote as if your life depended on it. Justin Dart” “Voting is the right from which all other rights spring. Thomas Payne” “Every vote counts. Register and vote.” “With rights come responsibilities. Register and vote.” “If you don’t vote, you don’t count.” “I vote. Do you?”

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