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Our Faith Our Vote Team Leaders’ Training 5/22/04 Notes on Electronic Resources
http://www.ourfaithourvote.org
"UCC Take Action Center, where you can read up-to-the-minute alerts on national and state issues and voice your concern about important matters of justice and peace. This is your one-stop advocacy center for contacting federal and state officials, corporate executives, opinion makers, and media outlets."
"California Church IMPACT represents the same constituency as the California Council of Churches and carries out the legislative advocacy work at the State Capitol and in Washington, D.C. on social, economic, and environmental justice issues facing our state." (later in election year, click on link to Impact for ballot analyses)
"Connecting People with Government - Nonpartisan Election Information"
"Project Vote Smart, a citizen's organization, has developed a Voter's Self-Defense system to provide you with the necessary tools to self-govern effectively: abundant, accurate, unbiased and relevant information. As a national library of factual information, Project Vote Smart covers your candidates and elected officials in five basic categories: biographical information, issue positions, voting records, campaign finances and interest group ratings."
"non-partisan resource for new voters and busy voters"
http://www.naacp.org/work/voter/voter_empowerment.shtml Voter Empowerment Program "The non-partisan NAACP Voter Empowerment Program is an aggressive campaign designed to empower the African American community by increasing awareness and participation in the full political process in local, state, and federal elections."
www.ss.ca.gov/elections/elections_d.htm (COUNTY ELECTIONS OFFICE ADDRESSES) County Elections Officials - Click for interactive County Map, which links to county elections officials' web sites. Or, scroll down page for alphabetical listing - by county - of county elections officials.
http://www.fec.gov/votregis/vr.htm FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION - The National Mail Voter Registration Form is the one document that allows you to register to vote from anywhere in the United States. Registering to Vote http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/english.pdf Download and Mail a Voter Registration Form The California Secretary of State downloadable forms that are also available in Spanish. Please download and complete the form. Please remember to sign it and MAIL it DIRECTLY to your COUNTY REGISTRAR OF VOTERS. http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/votereg1.html California's on-line voter registration form. For security purposes, full on-line voter registration is not yet available, but by completing the information requested in the on-line form on this site, a registration card with your information will be printed and mailed to you. (For more information on Internet voter registration and voting, please see the California Internet Voting Task Force Report). Once you receive your form in the mail, which takes approximately 7 to 10 days, you must sign, date, and return it by mail to the county elections official on the return address side of the voter registration card. Please make sure all of the information is correct and drop it back in the mail. We'll pay for the postage! To be eligible to register to vote you must: -be a United States Citizen; -be 18 years of age on or before the day of the election; -be a resident of the State of California; -not be in prison or on parole for the conviction of a felony; -not have been judged by a court to be mentally incompetent to register and vote. If you are living overseas or you are in the military, you may want to use the Federal Post Card Application to register to vote. Remember: In California, the deadline to register to vote for an election is 15 days before each local and statewide election day, so please register early! http://www.co.sacramento.ca.us/elections/ENG/voting-info/absentee.html
http://www.fec.gov/votregis/pdf/ca.pdf
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Riverside Church released Senior Pastor Jim Forbes 1/2 time between now & election to work on Voter issues Gamaliel - "Rolling Thunder" project this summer, kicking off in Oakland PICO - Pacific Institute on Congregational Organizing - October 15 & 16 Town Hall meetings nationwide with Congresspeople. Pete Stark meeting hosted by Eden Hayward, San Lorenzo Community, Fremont Congregational |