Ad hoc Voter Registration & Education Committee
Introduction: The ad hoc Voter Registration & Education Committee was created in February 2004 in order to respond to declines in voter registration and turnout – especially among low-income and less educated people – in the face of major changes to government services and programs affecting child care. The Committee is focusing on the November 2004 elections and was created as a pilot project for this particular purpose. This committee aims to address this disturbing trend by increasing voter educating and participation of the Alameda County child care community by:
- Initiating efforts to educate and register child care providers and parents in the child care community
- Linking the Planning Council with local government and other local voter education and registration efforts
Please call Angie Garling (510) 208-9675 or email her for more information about this committee.
This Committee is non-partisan in nature and will not support or oppose, directly or indirectly, any candidate, political party, or measure.
Committee Members:
Projects:
- Organize workplace raffles at child care agencies (e.g. Resource & Referral agencies, Alternative Payment Programs, child care centers and associations, etc.) to encourage coworkers to vote. By starting where we work, this project will help develop a spirit of civic engagement at child care workplaces. Click here to learn more about holding a workplace raffle.
- Register voters and speak about voter registration and education at a community events and child care events. We are setting up tables to register voters and, when possible, speaking at events about the importance of voting and how voting affects policies related to children. If you have an event which you would like a member of the ad hoc Voter Registration & Education Committee to attend, either to speak or register voters, please contact Angie Garling (510) 208-9675 or email her. Click here to download the three page Voter Registration Kit.
- Help integrate voter registration into the protocols at child care agency. The theory behind this project is based on the success of voter registration at Department of Motor Vehicles offices. This project will integrate voter registration into the regular paperwork protocols at child care agencies so that when child care providers and parents fill out paperwork at Resource & Referral agencies, Alternative Payment Programs, child care associations, etc., they will be asked if they want to register to vote.
- Contact voters in the child care community before the November election to remind them to vote. Studies show that the more person-to-person contact a voter has before an election, the more likely he/she is to vote. This project, therefore, is aimed at the newly registered voters in the child care community to provide them the extra reminder and encouragement to vote just before the November election.
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