TCC Analysis • September 2, 2024
By Art Harman, Senior Vice President – Policy · September 2, 2024
While many Americans will vote early or absentee, millions still vote in person on election day. There’s a few ways you can help President Trump and all the Republican candidates on your ballot win on election day.
First: ask for that day off work!
SIGN UP AS AN ELECTION OFFICIAL OR POLL WATCHER. As an Election Official, your responsibility is to make sure that the person is a registered voter and all facts appear correct, and to question any faults. You can help prevent fraud. Make sure the person is who they state. Make sure voters without proof of identity do not cast a full ballot but a provisional ballot subject to showing ID.
You will be present when the ballots are secured at the end of the day and will be able to assure the rules are followed and there’s no attempts to cheat.
Contact your local voter registration office to sign up as an official. You will attend a training class, and you may get paid for your service. Do it now because they often have cutoff dates to sign up, and Democrats will try to fill those positions.
As a Republican Poll Watcher, you have few rights, but you can politely insist on officials following the law and rules, and you can call party headquarters if you see discrepancies, as well as photograph or video questionable activities—to the extent legally allowed. Your local party will have training so you know what you can and can’t do to make sure the election is honest, and who to call if there are problems.
Read the basic principles of being a poll watcher.
Problems could include running out of ballots, machine readers or electronic ballot devices malfunctioning, and giving live ballots to those who aren’t registered or have insufficient proof of registration and residency.
If your local GOP doesn’t sign you up as a poll watcher, sign up online at the RNC’s voter integrity project: ProtectTheVote.com/volunteer
Attorneys should sign up with the RNC to help handle fraud and other issues.
CONTACT YOUR LOCAL GOP OR CAMPAIGN HQ TO DO EVEN MORE:
You can drive people to the polls. Particularly helpful for senior citizens.
You can call voters. That can be done at the party’s or campaign’s local offices, or on a phone app that allows you to make calls from home. Election day calls remind people who haven’t voted yet.
Volunteer to hand out fliers and talk to voters outside a local polling place. Even in an election like this, there will be a few people who are still undecided on the presidency, and certainly more for Congressional and state and local races. Your short discussions can win votes!
Volunteer Activities Before the Election
Your local GOP or campaign headquarters will have many projects you can do. Calling voters. Preparing mailings. Putting up signs. Answering the phones. Registering voters at shopping centers and special events.
You can knock on doors in neighborhoods. These days, you’ll use an app on your phone with a map that shows the houses to visit, and you can tag each as favorable, unfavorable, not home, etc. Check with your local campaign HQ.
If your local GOP doesn’t have an app to walk, call and text voters near you, download “Early Vote America,” a free conservative voter contact app by voter registering expert Scott Presler. The Android & iPhone app has a map showing where registered Republicans live, and allows you to call or text them too. Get for Android ● Get for iPhone
SOCIAL MEDIA: Between now and November 5, keep reminding your friends and followers of the importance of this election, and urge them to be registered, to vote early and to ask their friends to do the same. Together, we can win if everyone votes.
EARLY VOTING starts this month in many states. Remind your friends and social media to ‘bank their vote’ early. Unexpected things can happen on election day, and we lost some races in 2022 because of bad weather. Democrats got their votes in early but we didn’t, and bad weather kept just enough people home. Other problems also reduce election day voting: Kids get sick. Traffic. Have to work late. And just plain forgetting.
Check THIS CHART for when early voting starts and ends in your state and others.
MESSAGING: When talking or chatting with undecided voters, you can mention the effects on their lives of unlimited illegal immigration, defunded police, inflationary spending, restrictions on free speech. Or that their city has been run only by Democrats for decades and maybe it’s time for a change. All we need is that they see the light and vote to throw out the incumbents.
SHARE TCC’S ELECTION RESOURCES:
- Rebuttal of Democrat Talking Points
- 16 Reasons to Stand with President Trump & Vote for all Republicans
- Sign up now for many free activist resources at TCC’s Center for Conservative Activism: TheConservativeCaucus.org/volunteer
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