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2020-election-resources

PRs, tickets, etc. are welcome.

Vote!

• resist.bot or text VOTE to 50409. They will even keep a watch on your voter registration and notify you if you get kicked off the voting rolls!
• IWillVote.org By DNC

Voter Guides and Endorsements

National

• Ballotready
• FactCheck.org > 2020 Election
• What's On the Ballot "A guide to local and state elections in the U.S., by Daniel Nichanian. Basically, all I'm watching right now, with an eye to the stakes for the left!" 390 items and growing.
• Ballotpedia
• Voting While Black Endorsements #Black
• The Collective PAC #Black
• Victory Fund #LGBT

Illinois

• Personal PAC #Illinois #Pro-Choice

Chicago

• Windy City Times printable election chart guides[PDF] #LGBTQ #withjudges
• Girl I Guess Voter Guide: A Progressive Voter Guide to the 2020 General Election in Cook County and Beyond #withjudges
• Injustice Watch on Judges for Cook County #withjudges

Polling Place Info

• Electioneering
• fact sheets for all 50 states explaining the laws barring unauthorized private militia groups From @JuddLegum's Twitter. He's doing some cool independent journalism you can find at popularinformation. Content by Georgetown University Law Center. "and what to do if groups of armed individuals are near a polling place or voter registration drive."

Multi-media

• Hamilton Voting Video Special voting version of Hamilton music with Lin-Manual Miranda.
• The Lincoln Project YouTube Republicans against Trumpism.
• Better Know a Ballot - video for each state by Stephen Colbert

Ways to Volunteer

Polling Place Worker

• Power The Polls

Voter Protection

• https://866ourvote.org/volunteer/

Writing Letters

• https://votefwd.org/

Phone Banking

• 2020 Indivisible Phonebank
• Swing Left
• Democrats.org

Texting

• Open Progress is Amy's favorite, but they don't always have campaigns open
• Resistance Labs almost always has campaigns open but the support and software are not quite as good as Open Progress
• Democracy for America is a text banking event on October 11 that Amy's planning to do
• Democrats.org has some text banking options as well
• Lots of individual campaigns have their own texting programs, so if there's a candidate you're particularly excited about, you can sign up to text or phone bank through the campaign website.
  • Lauren Underwood's campaign is done taking text bank volunteers.

Election Results

• Cook County Clerk

Run for Office

• Joining a Chicago School Board from @DataMade