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Voter Outreach During Social Distancing

04/16/2020 01:56:10 PM

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The TBE Civic Engagement Action Team has found our activities constrained by social distancing. In-person trainings have been postponed, campus and community voter registration tables are gone, and door-to-door activities are on hold. We have been using our time to divide up tasks, coordinate with the Wisconsin Interfaith Civic Engagement Project, and meet by Zoom.

The Wisconsin Interfaith Civic Engagement Project is connecting congregations and community organizations across the state in nonpartisan voter outreach and education. They are currently working to promote online voter registration training, phone banking, video outreach, and possibly a Civics 101 webinar. To avoid unnecessary overlap and extra meetings, we will look to this project for leadership on voter registration drives, door-to-door canvassing, interfaith connections, and candidate forums conducted with other partners.

The TBE Civic Engagement Action Team will focus on making sure that TBE is a 100% voting congregation, planning events for the Jewish community, participating in the League of Women Voters Apartment Project, and planning a Shabbat in September focused on voter engagement.

We encourage anyone who is interested to sign up for both the TBE Civic Engagement Action Team (contact Marcia Vandercook) and the Wisconsin Interfaith Civic Engagement Project (contact Rabbi Bonnie Margulis). You can choose what interests you as new volunteer opportunities develop.

If you want to be part of the voter registration effort when we get back into the field, here are some good online resources:

We will press forward to ensure that all citizens are able to vote and that our voices and values are heard at this critical time in our society.

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