Trick or Treat, and Vote, This Halloween

Hey, trick or treaters! if you are in New York Metropolis, you can vote currently and get a neat Halloween-themed voting sticker!

If you just can’t vote now since you’ve acquired witch organization to acquire treatment of, no anxieties — early voting runs via Sunday, November 6. Your very last possibility to vote is typical outdated Election Day on Tuesday, November 8, but if you go early, the crowds are substantially significantly less scary.

I’ve been active all month functioning on obtaining out the vote by producing postcards to voters, contacting voters, and knocking on doors. You can participate in a lot of GOTV things to do from home, and I have choices for just about every day as a result of Election Day in the hottest edition of my weekly activism publication.

Simply click Here FOR GOTV Possibilities.

You can also obtain all the facts you want to make your have voting plans in that exact backlink.

Voting in each election is significant, but this a single is specially vital if you feel in everyone’s proper to choose. If you’re not about to tell a woman or any individual with a uterus to have a kid from their will, vote Democrat up and down the ticket to prevent draconian abortion bans. At the federal stage, Republicans are completely ready to pursue a countrywide abortion ban. (And just after that, they are coming for contraception.) At the nearby stage, Republicans in state legislatures are pushing state abortion bans that could get impact as quickly as next yr. In Pennsylvania, for instance, the Republican-controlled point out legislature has presently voted when in favor of an abortion ban. If the appropriate wing stays in electricity there, there will be a further legislative vote in favor of the ban in 2023. The 2nd consecutive vote will then send the ban to the folks for their vote. Let’s not allow it get that far, Pennsylvania!

If you have previously purchased into outdated-fashioned and cynical notions of your vote “not counting,” my activist close friend Robin Alperstein defined in a Fb put up final evening that each and every vote actually matters, even if you’re in a “blue” or “red” state. (Mainly, nothing is ever as monolithic as it looks.) I put Robin’s post into this Google doc so you can go through it as well. If you have more time to spare — or just miss observing/hearing me — you can revisit the lYouTube video I did for the 2018 midterm elections.

If you’re heading to the NYC Halloween parade these days, I’ll be with the Witches Vote contingent spreading the concept that “Voting Is Magic.”