From Fair Districts PA (http://www.fairdistrictspa.com):
We need your help on April 28th (Primary Election Day).
Since November 2017, FDPA Polling Place Outreach volunteers have talked to nearly 100,000 voters, asking them to sign our petition supporting an independent redistricting commission. We’re planning to do it one more time!
Polling Place Outreach (PPO) has yielded thousands of petition signatures, email addresses and conversations with voters in the past two+ years, while also raising FDPA’s profile among public officials and the press.
To make this work, we need polling place captains to help organize the effort.
You’ve been involved in the Polling Place Outreach effort before, so your experience would be invaluable to us as a captain. Captains are assigned polling places in an area (from 3-5 polling places, each with 4 to 8 volunteers), help train other volunteers, answer questions and distribute materials.
Captains also have the fun job of visiting polling places to take photos and to see how things are going. And then at the close of the day, captains collect and tally petitions.
If you really want to have an adventure, consider signing up to be a captain for a group that is heading on a road trip to a strategic part of the state! There is a place on the captain sign-up form to indicate your willingness to be a traveling captain. Just remember to apply for an absentee ballot if you sign up to be a traveling captain.
Captains and volunteers have told us PPO is a great way to connect with other volunteers, contribute to our reform effort, and engage in a non-partisan way to strengthen our democracy.
Position Description for Polling Place Outreach Captain provides a summary of key requirements and qualifications.
You can sign up using this webform, which is also listed in the Captain Position Description.
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