Month: June 2020

Faith Group Seeks Voter Registration Organizer

The Unitarian Universalist Pennsylvania Legislative Advocacy Network (UUPLAN) , a statewide advocacy network whose mission is pursuing justice by voting, advocating and making just public policies, is seeking to hire a part-time voter registration Organizer for their Pennsylvania UU the Vote Campaign.

PA UU the Vote, is a non-partisan faith initiative, in partnership with broader justice movements, to engage neighbors, educate our communities, mobilize voters, and rally around key ballot initiatives. It is part of the larger nationwide Unitarian Universalist Association.

According to the job description, UUPLAN “seeks to retain a part-time, consulting Organizer to work with Unitarian Universalist congregations to increase voter participation in Pennsylvania, particularly in communities negatively affected by voter suppression, for the November 3, 2020 general election (“the Project”). The Organizer will be joining a team of lay and clergy leaders in congregations across Pennsylvania and nearby states who have spent the past six months building a network of engaged volunteers ready to ramp up their civic engagement activities.”

Interested candidates are urged to submit a resume and cover letter as soon as possible to Reverend Joan Sabatino, Director UUPLAN Education Fund, via email: director@uuplan.org. Provide appropriate descriptions of experience, skills and knowledge. Provide three references. It is the intent of the UPEF to select and retain an Organizer as soon as possible.

Please feel free to distribute the full voter registration Organizer job description to your networks or post to social media.

PA Register to Vote Flyer

At the eulogy for George Floyd we were reminded our movement won’t rest. We will continue to fight on until there is justice. To those who have marched and protested around our country and throughout the world, thank you.

For more than a year a number of us have been working hard to register voters in Philadelphia. A few months ago a group coalesced to become the Philly Voter Engagement Network, meeting on a weekly basis to promote voter registration and voter engagement. My contribution this past Friday was the development of a Register to Vote flyer. Feel free to post it in your community, share with organizations and networks.

The flyer was created for these COVID-19 times. A person can scan the QR Code with their smartphone and fill out the PA Department of State’s PA online voter registration form. Another QR Code (QR is short for quick response, created by a company, Denso Wave) links a prospective or a re-registering voter to a page for printing a hard copy voter registration application form.

The register to vote flyer will be an effective tool for registering or updating a voter registration record under the following conditions:

  • Attached to a sign while in public spaces
  • Attending protest marches, rallies or vigils
  • At other socially-distanced events
  • Placing on community bulletin boards
  • Displaying in local shop windows

Feel free to copy, distribute and reproduce this flyer. Share it with your network.

Together, we know our voices can be heard. Be safe. Be a voter.