Trick or Treat, and Vote, This Halloween

Hey, trick or treaters! if you are in New York City, you can vote nowadays and get a great Halloween-themed voting sticker!

If you just cannot vote currently since you’ve obtained witch enterprise to get treatment of, no problems — early voting runs by Sunday, November 6. Your final opportunity to vote is typical outdated Election Day on Tuesday, November 8, but if you go early, the crowds are a great deal considerably less scary.

I have been busy all month working on finding out the vote by composing postcards to voters, calling voters, and knocking on doorways. You can participate in a lot of GOTV routines from property, and I have selections for just about every day as a result of Election Day in the most current version of my weekly activism e-newsletter.

Click on Right here FOR GOTV Selections.

You can also discover all the info you have to have to make your have voting ideas in that exact backlink.

Voting in just about every election is critical, but this a single is particularly important if you believe in everyone’s suitable to decide on. If you are not about to inform a lady or any one with a uterus to have a child against their will, vote Democrat up and down the ticket to prevent draconian abortion bans. At the federal degree, Republicans are prepared to go after a countrywide abortion ban. (And after that, they are coming for contraception.) At the local degree, Republicans in point out legislatures are pushing condition abortion bans that could acquire result as shortly as future yr. In Pennsylvania, for instance, the Republican-controlled state legislature has by now voted the moment in favor of an abortion ban. If the right wing stays in ability there, there will be an additional legislative vote in favor of the ban in 2023. The next consecutive vote will then ship the ban to the people for their vote. Let us not allow it get that far, Pennsylvania!

If you have earlier acquired into outdated-fashioned and cynical notions of your vote “not counting,” my activist buddy Robin Alperstein described in a Fb submit previous night time that each individual vote really matters, even if you are in a “blue” or “red” condition. (Basically, nothing at all is at any time as monolithic as it appears.) I set Robin’s write-up into this Google doc so you can read through it as well. If you have far more time to spare — or just pass up seeing/hearing me — you can revisit the lYouTube online video I did for the 2018 midterm elections.

If you’re going to the NYC Halloween parade nowadays, I’ll be with the Witches Vote contingent spreading the message that “Voting Is Magic.”