Get Out The Vote!

Get Out the Vote! Letter-Writing Party. Sunday, September 11th. 9:00-9:45am and 11:15am-1:00pm

In the aftermath of the Uvalde, Buffalo, and Highland Park mass shootings, many people are asking, "What can I do?" Electing candidates in November who will keep us safe from gun violence is a top priority, here in Connecticut just as it is elsewhere. In other parts of our country, many find it difficult or face obstacles to vote and need encouragement to vote in our democratic process.

Hosted by St. Matthew’s Social Justice & Racial Healing group, there will be a letter-writing party on Sunday, September 11 from 9-9:45am and 11:15am-2:00pm in the Lounge. Come when you are able to help in a variety of ways – even if it’s for 15 or 30 minutes. Refreshments provided. We will provide the pens, letters, envelopes, postcards, and stamps:

• 50 pre-formatted letters and the names of voters in Connecticut (from The Pen Power Project)
• 200 postcards and the names of inconsistent voters in rural Georgia (from Postcards to Swing States)

Choose a task:

• Add a note and sign with your first name
• Address envelopes or postcards
• Stuff envelopes
• Add stamps

FAQs:

• Voters who receive handwritten postcards are significantly more likely to vote.
• You’ll be writing to low turnout voters in competitive districts in Connecticut who are most likely to support an agenda of “gun safety” and inconsistent Black voters in rural Georgia.
• You will not be endorsing any candidate or political party – just encouraging people to vote!
• On the letters, you will write a sentence to answer this prompt: Tuesday, November 8 is Election Day. There’s a lot at stake, especially this year. I’m voting because ……
• On the postcards you’ll write
• You’ll only have to include your first name and the initial of your last name, to maintain your confidentiality. The letters we have are not from Wilton.
• To maintain confidentiality, you’ll just need to sign with your first name and include your first name and last name initial (“Sally B.”) on the envelope. You’ll use the organizations’ address as the return address on the envelope.
• The letters are to voters outside of Wilton and the postcards go to voters in Georgia.
• We will mail all the letters and postcards will be mailed from the Wilton Post Office on November 1^st in advance of election day.
• More questions? Contact Sharon Pearson [email protected].

The Pen Power Project is the CT Against Gun Violence get-out-the-vote campaign to write, stockpile, and mail before Election Day at least 50,000 letters so we can elect candidates who put the safety of our communities above the "guns everywhere" agenda of the NRA, joined now by the Supreme Court, which for the very first time, just established an individual right to carry guns in public.

Postcards to Swing States is an initiative of the Progressive Turnout Project, the largest voter contact organization in the country, specifically dedicated to reaching voters in states with critical elections in 2022: Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, Arizona, North Carolina, New Hampshire, and Nevada.