The 4 Words That Will Decide The #Presidency In 2024: #Election Protection, #Grassroots #Organizing
by Harvey Wasserman #uspolitics
..."In 2020, our national election was saved by hand-marked, hand-counted, digitally scanned paper ballots… by a fierce nationwide battle to save voter registration rolls… and by a massive grassroots organizing campaign that inspired citizens to vote in record numbers, with those votes reliably protected once cast. Amidst the Covid Pandemic, that movement ultimately rode an unprecedented wave of tens of millions of paper ballots that were mailed out and mailed back in through the US Postal Service.
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The Bannon plan is to fill those precincts with Trump operatives trained to drive away and de-register anti-Trump votersand deny them ballots. That also means terrorizing election boards and precinct staff, guaranteeing that countless ballots that do get through remain uncounted.
Thus the battle over local election boards and precinct staffing determine this election’s outcome.
Many thousands of young people are now volunteering to work this election. Hopefully they’ll work the polls while protecting the voter rolls and guaranteeing the precincts will deliver the ballots that a rightfully authorized and accurately count them once cast.
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to win them, the unavoidable imperative is to focus campaign dollars not on diffuse media buys, but on“relational” campaigns based on door-knocking, street canvassing, democracy centers, and what organizer Ray McClendon calls “target messaging from targeted messengers” who work the neighborhoods where they live. That means on-the-ground organizing led by local activists advocating for ocal issues with tangible impacts on local voters.
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Whether you like it or not, democracy means you ARE involved. So...
To help save the 2024 election see the People’s HUB for Grassroots Election Organizing: https://www.usgrassroots.org/ "...
