Voteworks
has teamed up with Working Assets to provide companies
with simple tools for running a non-partisan voter
registration campaign.
There is also a project to
recruit volunteers for Election Protection work,
and an honor roll of participating companies.
Voter
Registration
Working Assets created
YourVoteMatters.org to make
it easy for people nationwide to fill out voter registration
forms online. Citizens can register to vote, update
their name, address or party on the voter rolls, or
invite friends to register in a few simple steps. What's
more, when Voteworks partners help employees and customers
fill out voter registration forms via a special trackable
link to YourVoteMatters.org, Working Assets will provide
a donation in your company's name to qualifying
non-profit groups dedicated to providing non-partisan
voter registration and voter education services.
Once
registered online, those individuals will also receive
state-by-state information on how to request
an absentee ballot, how to find their polling place,
and how to find non-partisan voter information.
Starting
an online voter registration drive at your company
is simple. As a qualifying online affiliate
of Voteworks and Working Assets' YourVoteMatters.org
Web site, your organization agrees to post on a unique,
trackable link to the voter registration Web site,
YourVoteMatters.org.
We also recommend promoting
your link in e-mails and newsletters to your organization's
employees, members, clients and customers. Voteworks
will provide you with information on the success of
your efforts and tell you how many voters you have
registered by Election Day. (Note that voter registration
deadlines vary by state, so we will be tracking who
has registered before the deadline in each state.)
To request a custom tailored website for voter
registration, please fill out our online
application.
Election Protection Honor Roll
Participating companies:
Working Assets
(Your company's name here!)
Join the Election
Protection Honor Roll by giving employees the day
off to defend democracy. Socially
responsible
companies are supporting civil rights by offering a
day off with compensation to employees who volunteer
in non-partisan Election Protection efforts on November
2, 2004.
Election
Protection
In the last presidential election, millions of votes
were never counted. Voters in minority communities
were disproportionately disenfranchised, through illegal
disqualification, intimidation, inadequate voter education
and poll worker training, and faulty voting machines.
This November, voters could face all these obstacles
and more, including unfamiliar electronic voting machines
and new identification requirements. Tens of thousands
of non-partisan volunteers are necessary to protect
voting rights on Election Day. Socially responsible
companies can help by giving employees the day off
to defend democracy.
A non-partisan Election Protection
coalition—members
include People for the American Way, the Lawyers' Committee
For Civil Rights, NAACP National Voter Fund and more—is
mobilizing volunteers to help prevent widespread
disenfranchisement on November 2. Teams of volunteers
will travel to polling places near and far, trained
and prepared to:
- perform on-site poll monitoring
- offer immediate
voter assistance at the polls
- report evidence of
problems at the polls to a same-day assistance
hotline
- distribute state-specific Voters' Bills
of Rights
- encourage voter participation
Find out how your employees
can sign up to be part of 2004 Election Protection
efforts and how your company can join the Election
Protection honor roll by sending an email to info@voteworks.org.
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