Please warn everyone you know to check to see that their ballot has been received. I dropped the ballots for myself and my husband TOGETHER into the mailbox right outside the post office. His was received 5 days later, mine hasn't been received yet--three weeks later!
Your ballot has to be received in order to be counted. CHECK on your ballot!
The Post Office in our little town in northern NH was also running short of post card stamps. The employee who waited on me said it was because so many people were writing postcard to voters. Whoohoo, it's contagious.
Your folks might already know this. For postcards, you can buy a roll of “second ounce” stamps and put two of those on a postcard and that is the correct amount of postage. I learned this when we were out of postcard stamps in Durham, North Carolina, and I had more than 300 cards to mail last week.
We ran out of postcards at our rural PO months ago. Folks are now posting on local FB sites to ask who has them and we're all sharing. While that's a good community thing, I'm furious at the USPS for its inefficiency, which continues to feel planned by DeJoy.
OMG!!! If you have not watched the video that Jessica recommended in the 3rd paragraph of her opening comments, then you must drop everything and watch this 3 minute video. A_M_A_Z_I_N_G!!!
Thank you Jessica. It will greatly help myself and multiple other people I know who are extremely worried about this election. Bless you for finding these items and passing them on to us. To save you looking for the link, here it is:
We are in Reston, Virginia, and our post office was also out of postcard stamps. However, my husband went to the self-service machine and was able to get his 100 stamps. The glitch they printed one at a time. Quite humorous and a success.
Correct on the Movement. And, women can take HUGE credit when we win. Just in my little town, I belong to two postcarding groups and one has mailed out 20,000 postcards to swing states and the other has sent out 50,Ooo for congressional races. We’ve got this! Go team. 💙
https://bluevoterguide.org/ has a searchable data base by address and produces Dem sample ballots for many states and localities. We volunteered putting the NV ones together.
Yes, @Cheryl Cook, Blue Voter Guide has sample ballots for anyone living in the 50 states, all 435 Congressional districts! Their wonderful volunteers like you spent the summer building out the endorsement lists and fact-checking the downballot races and propositions.
And by Wednesday, the site will hit 1 million users for this fall's election! Woo hoo!
Jessica: just finished reading today's post and want to finally say how tremendously grateful I am for ALL you do (my goodness: you are a true workhorse) while being incredibly cheerful, energetic and way, way encouraging to all of us. You are amazing and your is my favorite post--both for the post, for the actions and for the good news and encouragement. I can't say thank you enough--so I'll stop here. Besides saying thank you TO EVERYONE ELSE, too! Let's go!!!
Please forgive if this is a repeat, but the disability graphic is from the wonderful former US representative Tony Coelho. He has epilepsy and was a leader in the disability rights movement. Worth naming him as the source of the graphic.
When I dropped another load of Vote Forward letters off at Boulder, CO largest post office yesterday they were out of rolls of stamps. I also saw that as a good sign. AND! All the North Carolina voters have been adopted from the Vote Forward campaigns. Whooohooo! Still other states to adopt!
A former neighbor in an Asheville suburb went to vote today and found that the owner of the area strip mall, which includes the public library polling location, had cordoned off the entire parking lot area to prevent convenient voting. TBD what any legal ramification(s) might be.
Cheryl, you beat me to it. I was also going to recommend bluevoterguide.org. Jess, today's Chop Wood was FABULOUS - so many actions. I signed up for both text banks; I shared your Nevada tribal information widely and made a donation. I also shared your TN video, which had personal resonance for e since I grew up there. And now I have a luddite question: how do I email the TN video as a vide and not a still? I can post on social media but can’t figure out email. If anyone can help, I'd appreciate it.
Please warn everyone you know to check to see that their ballot has been received. I dropped the ballots for myself and my husband TOGETHER into the mailbox right outside the post office. His was received 5 days later, mine hasn't been received yet--three weeks later!
Your ballot has to be received in order to be counted. CHECK on your ballot!
Yikes will do!
The Post Office in our little town in northern NH was also running short of post card stamps. The employee who waited on me said it was because so many people were writing postcard to voters. Whoohoo, it's contagious.
Dangit, Jess, I didn't have crying on my bingo card today either!
Thank you. Thank you. You and everyone here are part of the reason I can still read election news at all.
Aw thank YOU!
Your folks might already know this. For postcards, you can buy a roll of “second ounce” stamps and put two of those on a postcard and that is the correct amount of postage. I learned this when we were out of postcard stamps in Durham, North Carolina, and I had more than 300 cards to mail last week.
We ran out of postcards at our rural PO months ago. Folks are now posting on local FB sites to ask who has them and we're all sharing. While that's a good community thing, I'm furious at the USPS for its inefficiency, which continues to feel planned by DeJoy.
The Tennessee woman had me crying
Me, too, Louise! We're all so desperate for hope.
OMG!!! If you have not watched the video that Jessica recommended in the 3rd paragraph of her opening comments, then you must drop everything and watch this 3 minute video. A_M_A_Z_I_N_G!!!
Thank you Jessica. It will greatly help myself and multiple other people I know who are extremely worried about this election. Bless you for finding these items and passing them on to us. To save you looking for the link, here it is:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBbInryRZ5P/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&utm_medium=email
I agree. It was really sustaining.
We are in Reston, Virginia, and our post office was also out of postcard stamps. However, my husband went to the self-service machine and was able to get his 100 stamps. The glitch they printed one at a time. Quite humorous and a success.
I did that a few months ago. It took eight minutes to print a hundred stamps. Fortunately no one else wanted the machine.
OMG!
Correct on the Movement. And, women can take HUGE credit when we win. Just in my little town, I belong to two postcarding groups and one has mailed out 20,000 postcards to swing states and the other has sent out 50,Ooo for congressional races. We’ve got this! Go team. 💙
https://bluevoterguide.org/ has a searchable data base by address and produces Dem sample ballots for many states and localities. We volunteered putting the NV ones together.
Yes, @Cheryl Cook, Blue Voter Guide has sample ballots for anyone living in the 50 states, all 435 Congressional districts! Their wonderful volunteers like you spent the summer building out the endorsement lists and fact-checking the downballot races and propositions.
And by Wednesday, the site will hit 1 million users for this fall's election! Woo hoo!
https://BlueVoterGuide.org
Bluevoterguide did a good job for Detroit MI.
Jessica: just finished reading today's post and want to finally say how tremendously grateful I am for ALL you do (my goodness: you are a true workhorse) while being incredibly cheerful, energetic and way, way encouraging to all of us. You are amazing and your is my favorite post--both for the post, for the actions and for the good news and encouragement. I can't say thank you enough--so I'll stop here. Besides saying thank you TO EVERYONE ELSE, too! Let's go!!!
How about bluevoterguide.org?
Please forgive if this is a repeat, but the disability graphic is from the wonderful former US representative Tony Coelho. He has epilepsy and was a leader in the disability rights movement. Worth naming him as the source of the graphic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Coelho
Didn't realize that thank you!
And I reposted on my Facebook page!
When I dropped another load of Vote Forward letters off at Boulder, CO largest post office yesterday they were out of rolls of stamps. I also saw that as a good sign. AND! All the North Carolina voters have been adopted from the Vote Forward campaigns. Whooohooo! Still other states to adopt!
A former neighbor in an Asheville suburb went to vote today and found that the owner of the area strip mall, which includes the public library polling location, had cordoned off the entire parking lot area to prevent convenient voting. TBD what any legal ramification(s) might be.
Sorry for submitting twice, but I just got this link from my Indivisible Vashon colleague: https://fusewashington.actionkit.com/go/46151?t=1&akid=12773%2E48230%2Es1JJPC (https://fusewashington.actionkit.com/go/46151?t=1&akid=12773%2E48230%2Es1JJPC) - this for your extra credit project, Jess.
Cheryl, you beat me to it. I was also going to recommend bluevoterguide.org. Jess, today's Chop Wood was FABULOUS - so many actions. I signed up for both text banks; I shared your Nevada tribal information widely and made a donation. I also shared your TN video, which had personal resonance for e since I grew up there. And now I have a luddite question: how do I email the TN video as a vide and not a still? I can post on social media but can’t figure out email. If anyone can help, I'd appreciate it.