Increase voter turnout in NC by donating to Bull City Votes today to ensure a sufficiently bone-chilling Halloween. There are only 10 days of voting left and NC is the second most likely state to be the tipping point in the electoral college.
I worked with Bull City Votes in 2020 alongside Thomas Johnson, Hannah McKnight, Faulkner Fox, Gunther Peck, Holly Ewell-Lewis, Tyler Hall, and many others. I’m not able to be in NC this year, but they’re doing great work again. Bull City Votes is non-partisan and focuses on providing access to election resources and transportation to polling places with on-the-ground canvassing. Anyone who’s ready to get registered and vote, they’ll take you right now. Frightful.
Bull City Votes focuses on providing this help to those who need it most. Many of our local communities are persistently disenfranchised and justifiably feel the government has done little for them. This group is diligent about their listening-first approach, and volunteers engage these communities with humility to better understand their needs and concerns. Many of the volunteers are students or members of these communities themselves and do this important work year-round– it’s me who’s choosing to only discuss it now.
It’s difficult to quantify the impact that a donation can have on the federal election, but this group’s work touches votes directly by taking people physically to (and from 🙂) the polls. I think supporting Bull City Votes is one of the highest expected value impacts you can have on voter turnout.
For my local Durham folks– let me know if you’d like to volunteer, or sign up here! I also ask you all to help get both the Streets and Sidewalks Bond and the Parks and Recreation Bond passed in Durham. Improving our sidewalks and public parks is important for everybody, but especially for those less wealthy and less able. On the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission, missing sidewalks were the number one issue we received complaints about from residents. Imagine trick-or-treating where the sidewalk ends.