Eight days left: Join Jews for
Warnock before the Georgia runoff next Tuesday.
Friend,
This weekend, early voting started in Georgia — after
Republicans tried to stop it. Luckily the Georgia Supreme Court denied
their naked attempt at silencing voters.1,2
So when you talk to a Georgia voter this week, they may be able to
cast their vote right away to make a difference in the Senate
runoff!
Join Jews and allies to help power Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock to
victory. Sign up for a shift to turn out Georgia voters this
week:
You’ll find
more dates on the calendar here.
The attempt to block early voting is just a small example of the
barriers faced by Georgia voters:
After a large grassroots effort
increased turnout among Black and other non-white voters and helped
Democrats win upset victories in the 2020 presidential and US Senate
races, Republicans responded and passed a 98-page measure, SB
202. The law placed sweeping new restrictions on voting, even
after the state affirmed repeatedly that there was no evidence of
fraud.
“There’s no doubt that the Senate bill
202 push, much like the January 6 insurrection, was a response to the
sort of multiracial rising American electorate. Full stop,”
said Nsé Ufot, chief executive of the New Georgia Project Action
Fund.3
We’re proud to team up with amazing organizations like New Georgia
Project Action Fund, Black to the Future Action Fund, and Community
Change Action to help Georgians exercise their freedom to vote.
Phonebanking doesn’t just help reelect Rev. Warnock, expand the
Democratic Senate majority, and defeat MAGA Republican Herschel Walker
— it also disrupts decades of voter suppression by
politicians who want to build a country only for themselves.
Join
Jews and allies to call Georgia voters this week — we have shifts
every night except Shabbat.
Onwards together,
The Bend the Arc team
Sources:
1. CNN, Republicans
ask Georgia high court to halt Saturday voting in US Senate
runoff
2. NBC News, Georgia
Supreme Court shoots down Republican bid to halt early voting in
Senate runoff on Saturday
3. The Guardian, ‘Death
by a thousand cuts’: Georgia’s new voting restrictions threaten
midterm election
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