Volunteer help sought to protect voting rights!

"Voting should be easy, but right now anti-voting advocates in Michigan are trying to make it harder. There are currently 39 pieces of anti-voting legislation in the Michigan state legislature that seek to limit Michigan voters' ability to cast a ballot, and we need your help to oppose them! Join us as we call Michigan voters to make them aware of this effort to suppress their vote and their voice. We'll ask them to contact their legislators to urge them to oppose any and all attacks on voting rights."

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Monique with Sierra Club Political Team
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Good morning,

This past week, volunteers worked together to call hundreds of Michiganders and ask them to urge their legislators to protect the right to vote. We crunched the numbers and we need next week to be at least twice as big as this past week to make a real difference. If you’re ready to make calls, you can sign up here.If you’re still not sure, please read on to see how we’re thinking about the math here.

On average, you can make 300-450 calls on the dialer during a 2.5 hour shift. In that time you’ll probably speak to between 30-40 people. And of the people you speak to, typically half will say yes to calling their representative.

Each of these calls makes a difference, but our real power comes from the ability to generate enough calls to make legislators take notice. We need to fill 50 calling shifts this week to produce at least 1,000 constituent calls to Michigan state senators -- will you act now and sign up to fill one of those shifts?

We’re making calls today, Monday from 12-2:30pm PT/3-5:30pm ET and this Thursday from 2:30pm-5pm PT/5:30pm-8pm ET. You can sign up for your calling shift by clicking here.

Making calls is easy, effective, and could be the deciding factor in whether or not anti-voting legislation becomes law in Michigan. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch by replying to this email.

Best,

Monique Wike, Sierra Club Political Team

P.S. -> Our team is also working to write letters to register voters, and we’re hosting a training on Tuesday for people who would like to host their own letter writing party with friends and family. You can sign up for the training here.