- Engage in Phone and Text Banking - Tonight
UU the Vote is asking UUs from around the country to join UUs and their partners in Michigan for a National Phone Bank on October 15 from 6:30-8:30 pm EST. This effort is focused on MI voters who are targeted for voter suppression. You can use any device: PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device. Register here!
- One More Easy Way to Get Out the Vote
Make a phone call to every adult niece, nephew, and grandchild you have across the United States and engage them in a conversation about voting. Have they registered? What’s their plan to vote? Do they know how to vote by absentee ballot? For those living in Michigan, see the this 2020 Voter Information Sheet for what they will need to know. For those living outside of Michigan, direct them to either https://www.campusvoteproject.org/state-student-voting-guides if they are a college/university student, or https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/plan-your-vote-state-by-state-guide-voting-by-mail-early-in-person-voting-election/index.html?cid=bc_npd_nn_ms_np-1_200816 if they are not, and help them make sense of the information. You can also share how your values help you make your decisions about your votes.
Find absentee ballot dropboxes in Isabella County. Make sure you deposit your ballot in the dropbox that matches where you are registered to vote.
The third film of our “Good Trouble” Film Series about the importance of voting rights is “John Lewis: Good Trouble” (~1 hour 36 minutes). It is available on Amazon Prime to rent. Watch the film sometime before Monday, October 19, then join us at 7:30pm on Monday for a facilitated discussion about the content of the film. The Zoom link to access the discussion is in the UUFCM calendar. We hope you will join us!
Mailing in Your Absentee Ballot
If you are mailing in your absentee ballot, it is recommended that it be mailed no later than October 20 to assure its arrival before November 3. Also remember that it requires more than one stamp, either a 71¢ stamp or two 55¢ stamps. Tracking Your Ballot If you are choosing to vote via an absentee ballot and mail it in, be sure to track your ballot – when your application was received, when your ballot was sent to you, and when your ballot was received at your clerk’s office. This tracking appears on your voter registration page (www.michigan.gov/vote). If you don’t see this information in a timely manner, be sure to call your clerk’s office to check. You can find your clerk’s office and phone number, also at www.michigan.gov/vote. Candidate Forums The League of Women Voters Mt. Pleasant Area hosted and recorded virtual candidate forums for the Mt. Pleasant School Board (on September 16) and for the Mt. Pleasant City Commission (on September 17). Use these links to view each forum. There is another opportunity to participate in a Zoom meeting with the candidates for City Commission on Thursday, October 8 at 6:30pm. This event is organized by the South West Association of Neighbors and is open to anybody who is interested and wants to ask the candidates questions and hear their answers. Join the Zoom meeting here. Meeting ID: 813 6230 2176 Passcode: 586785 The Voting Rights Committee invites you to our “Good Trouble” film series.
We have identified three videos that we think will help us better understand the importance of voting rights and the efforts to suppress voting rights. Here’s how it will work. Each week we will announce the upcoming film in the eNews and Sunday announcements and how to access the video to view it on your own timetable. On the following Monday evening at 7:30 pm, we will facilitate a Zoom discussion about the content of the film. The Zoom link to access the discussion will be in the UUFCM calendar.
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