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[personal profile] sathari posting in [community profile] thisfinecrew
Like the title says, we have two upcoming opportunities to flip the Senate (okay, it'll be 50/50, but with Vice President Harris as the tiebreaking vote) in the same state! 

Here are the links to the Democratic candidates' campaign sites:

https://electjon.com/ for Jon Ossoff, who ran in Georgia's 6th Congressional district in a special election back 2017, and who is running against Republican David Perdue

and

https://warnockforgeorgia.com/ for the Rev. Raphael Warnock, who got a very early endorsement from none other than former gubernatorial candidate and current voting protection activist (and also our fellow fannish person and a published romance writer) Stacey Abrams and is running against Republican Kelly Loeffler, who was appointed following the resignation of incumbent Johnny Isakson and who is not only married to the president of the New York Stock Exchange (this is the sort of thing that might matter to some subset of swingable Southern voters, as in OMG damnyankee) but appears to have engaged in a spot of insider trading around the whole COVID thing.

Speaking of Stacey Abrams, here the website for her main voting protection organization: https://fairfight.com/; I note that there are links to volunteer both in Georgia and nationally as well as to donate.

Date: 2020-11-08 03:32 am (UTC)
sara: S (Default)
From: [personal profile] sara
Kelly Loeffler also owns a WNBA team and is...not well loved within the league.

Date: 2020-11-08 03:46 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sara
I don't care a whole lot about sports but I am deeply invested in Sue Bird/Megan Rapinoe.

Date: 2020-11-08 07:31 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] tanaqui
Three other local organisations that have been registering, educating and supporting voters and could undoubtedly do with money.

https://newgeorgiaproject.org/

https://southernersonnewground.org/

https://www.atlantamutualaid.org/

There's also https://blackvotersmatterfund.org/ which has been working across a few more states.

And we had a post yesterday about the Romancing the Runoff fundraiser for several of these organisations.

Date: 2020-11-08 08:18 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] teaotter
And a reminder that Georgia peeps can still register to vote for the runoff! The last day is December 7th -- and you can register if you'll be 18 by January 5th.

https://georgia.gov/register-to-vote

https://georgia.gov/vote-absentee-ballot


eta: And a spreadsheet of BIPOC-led organizing groups in Georgia: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ho5HxLJhuWxy1QKzi4_7Ryt6Nvk2wm3RakOgeGiOWK0/htmlview#gid=0
Edited Date: 2020-11-08 08:23 pm (UTC)

Date: 2020-11-09 09:09 am (UTC)
tanaqui: Illumiinated letter T (Default)
From: [personal profile] tanaqui
And some more details on what the campaigns are looking for in terms of volunteering

Raphael Warnock:
https://secure.warnockforgeorgia.com/page/s/website_vol - sign up for updates about phone/text banking opportunities, door knocking, online messaging, etc.
https://www.mobilize.us/warnockforgeorgia/event/362553/ - sign up for virtual phone bank (Sundays)

Jon Ossoff:
https://www.mobilize.us/electjon/event/362688/ - sign up for virtual phone bank (daily)

Fair Fight:
https://fairfight.com/join-our-fight/ - sign up for phone banking opportunities, volunteer to be a poll worker, etc. (NOTE: This is the link to volunteer in GA, specifically. Here's the link to volunteer nationally: https://fairfight.com/fair-fight-2020/)

Vote Forward is about to launch a letter writing campaign to write to voters in Georgia:
https://votefwd.org/

Also, there's a joint donation page for Raphael Warnock, Jon Ossoff, & Fair Fight:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/georgiasenate - donations will be split evenly between Raphael Warnock, Jon Ossoff, and Fair Fight. You can also customize your donation to each.

(Thanks to the people who posted these links at FFA!)

Date: 2020-11-09 09:11 am (UTC)

Date: 2020-11-09 09:24 pm (UTC)
satsuma: a whole orange, a halved grapefruit, and two tangerine sections arranged into a still life (Default)
From: [personal profile] satsuma
One more link, Georgia's postcards to voters project: https://www.gapostcard.org/

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