[Libs-Or] Fwd: Is Your Library Involved in National Voter Registration Day

[Diedre Conkling]

Just passing this along for EveryLibrary.



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From: PC Sweeney <Patrick.sweeney at everylibrary.org>
Date: Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 6:01 AM
Subject: Is Your Library Involved in National Voter Registration Day
To: Diedre <diedre08 at gmail.com>


         Everything you need for a voter registration drive at your
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Your Library Up for National Voter Registration Day This free and easy
program has everything you need!

Imagine if all your library’s users were registered voters? Well, on
September 22nd, 2015, librarians have a great opportunity to offer a
“program” to register voters on site complete with volunteers and
marketing. A large number of libraries around the country will be
participating in the event and we want you to participate too. All you have
to do is go to the national website and click on the link
<http://everylibrary.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=60a31be110bbf10c384062cd5&id=92167aee22&e=02b04f22f9>
to become a partner to allow volunteers to come to the library and sign
people up. The NVRD will send you marketing materials, teach your staff how
to register voters (if you go that route), and the volunteers will take
care of all of the paperwork. This is a non-partisan effort supported by
organizations like; Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance Education Fund,
Bus Federation Civic Fund, Fair Elections Legal Network, League of Women
Voters, Nonprofit VOTE, Rock the Vote, and Voto Latino.

*Signing Up is Easy*
You still have time to register as a partnered organization and it’s very
easy to do through their website. If you sign up before September 4th, they
will provide training and marketing materials for free! You can then use
these materials to start planning a voter registration event on National
Voter Registration Day on September 22th.

*What Will You Have to Do?*
We are asking you to sign up as a partnering organization through the
website
<http://everylibrary.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=60a31be110bbf10c384062cd5&id=c8f49e762c&e=02b04f22f9>.
This is easy to do and requires very little from the library. There are a
couple of ways that we are asking you to partner with them and get involved.

   -  You can organize a Voter Registration effort on September 22.
   - You can allow their volunteers to set up a booth in front of your
   library to get people registered to vote.
   - You can simply promote voter registration and/or volunteerism through
   marketing and communication efforts.

*Why Is This So Important?*
Plan and simply, the more registered library users in your community, the
better your chances of winning an election come election time. Imagine if
every library user in your community was a registered voter that your
ballot committee could engage with and ask to vote for the library? It is
also so important that library staff, from pages to directors get familiar
and comfortable with the political process. A well-trained and comfortable
staff is a huge asset during your library’s election. You are still the
front line on library advocacy and as such, those staff members are all, in
a way, candidates.

*Is This Legal?*
Yes.  And it’s basic library work.  While it is true that staff can never
tell the public that they should vote yes or no on any piece of
legislation, especially library ballot measures, they can help members of
the public to get registered to vote and give them information about
elections.

*But We’re Not On the Ballot*
Whether or not your library is on the ballot this November, this kind of
political advocacy within your community will help you in the years to
come. The planning stages before you announce a ballot measure is called
surfacing and the more time you take to build your advocates and political
supporters before an election, the less work you’ll have to do come
election time. So, get started now with National Voter Registration Day!


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