ERUUF’s UU the Vote Team and Showing Up for Democracy Action Group: Lonna Harkrader, Nancy Couts, Sandy Hochel, Trisha Lester, and Julie Welch are working hard to provide opportunities for members and friends of ERUUF to get involved in nonpartisan activities for the 2024 election. There’s postcarding, driving folks to the polls in Granville and Person counties during Early Voting, phone banking, texting, canvassing, and offering home hospitality for other UUs coming from out of state to help canvas. Let’s Do Something! Watch E-News and check the website (under Justice>>>Justice News) for more information.
Disability Rights North Carolina’s Driving Folks to the Polls
Help drive folks to the polls in Granville and Person counties, where there is a huge need, during Early Voting (Oct. 17-Nov. 2). Please complete this form as soon as possible. More specific information will be forthcoming in mid-September.
You Can Vote
A homegrown nonpartisan nonprofit with whom ERUUF is working, which educates, registers, and empowers voters to cast their ballots. Their programs include voter education (through canvassing and phone banking) and engagement, voting rights ambassadors, NC Civic Fellows, Activate Workshops, and others. The website is loaded with information and includes a helpful “Resources” and “Voter Guide.”
Additional Resources for
Getting Involved in the 2024 Election
We invite you to learn more about these groups and consider volunteering as appropriate for specific election-related assignments. The need for talented volunteers is great!
Common Cause NC
A nonpartisan, grassroots, pro-democracy organization that focuses on fair redistricting and ending gerrymandering; election protection (including deploying on-the-ground volunteers at polling places, recruiting legal experts to staff their OUR-VOTE hotline, and monitoring social media for harmful election disinformation), stopping an Article V Convention, and reforming money in politics.
Democracy North Carolina
A nonpartisan organization that helps North Carolinians achieve meaningful pro-democracy reform through research, organizing, training, and Democracy Summer. Its voting resource, NC Voter, has important dates, information in Spanish, answers to questions in an interactive guide, and more. Their Vote Protectors (previously known as poll monitors) serve at voting sites across NC and help voters who encounter problems at the polls, ensuring that every polling place is running as it should. Vote Protectors monitor polling places in their communities flagging long lines, problems with curbside voting or accessibility, voter confusion, and misinformation or voter suppression.
N.C. State Board of Elections
All things voting from our State Board of Elections, including checking your own registration to ensure it is correct -- a good thing to do well before Early Voting begins!
Vote 411
Brought to you by the League of Women Voters Education Fund, this national site allows one to type in their address and see which candidates are running, view a sample ballot, check one’s voter registration, and find one’s polling place.
VoteRiders NC
This national organization provides accurate and nonpartisan information about what identification information is required in each state. They also provide practical, legal, or financial support if you need it. A photo ID is now required to vote a regular (not provisional) ballot in North Carolina.
