<div dir="ltr"><div>Just passing this along for EveryLibrary.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">PC Sweeney</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Patrick.sweeney@everylibrary.org">Patrick.sweeney@everylibrary.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 6:01 AM<br>Subject: Is Your Library Involved in National Voter Registration Day<br>To: Diedre <<a href="mailto:diedre08@gmail.com">diedre08@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br><u></u>
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Everything you need for a voter registration drive at your library
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<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(96,96,96);line-height:150%;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px">Imagine if all your library’s users were registered voters? Well, on September 22<sup>nd</sup>, 2015, librarians have a great opportunity to offer a “program” to register voters on site complete with volunteers and marketing. A large number of libraries around the country will be participating in the event and we want you to participate too. All you have to do is go to the national website and <a style="color:rgb(109,198,221);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" href="http://everylibrary.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=60a31be110bbf10c384062cd5&id=92167aee22&e=02b04f22f9" target="_blank">click on the link</a> to become a partner to allow volunteers to come to the library and sign people up. The NVRD will send you marketing materials, teach your staff how to register voters (if you go that route), and the volunteers will take care of all of the paperwork. This is a non-partisan effort supported by organizations like; Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance Education Fund, Bus Federation Civic Fund, Fair Elections Legal Network, League of Women Voters, Nonprofit VOTE, Rock the Vote, and Voto Latino.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(96,96,96);line-height:150%;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px"><strong>Signing Up is Easy</strong><br>
You still have time to register as a partnered organization and it’s very easy to do through their website. If you sign up before September 4th, they will provide training and marketing materials for free! You can then use these materials to start planning a voter registration event on National Voter Registration Day on September 22th.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(96,96,96);line-height:150%;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px"><strong>What Will You Have to Do?</strong><br>
We are asking you to <a style="color:rgb(109,198,221);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" href="http://everylibrary.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=60a31be110bbf10c384062cd5&id=c8f49e762c&e=02b04f22f9" target="_blank">sign up as a partnering organization through the website</a>. This is easy to do and requires very little from the library. There are a couple of ways that we are asking you to partner with them and get involved.</p>
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<li> You can organize a Voter Registration effort on September 22.</li>
<li>You can allow their volunteers to set up a booth in front of your library to get people registered to vote.</li>
<li>You can simply promote voter registration and/or volunteerism through marketing and communication efforts.</li>
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<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(96,96,96);line-height:150%;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px"><strong>Why Is This So Important?</strong><br>
Plan and simply, the more registered library users in your community, the better your chances of winning an election come election time. Imagine if every library user in your community was a registered voter that your ballot committee could engage with and ask to vote for the library? It is also so important that library staff, from pages to directors get familiar and comfortable with the political process. A well-trained and comfortable staff is a huge asset during your library’s election. You are still the front line on library advocacy and as such, those staff members are all, in a way, candidates.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(96,96,96);line-height:150%;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px"><strong>Is This Legal?</strong><br>
Yes. And it’s basic library work. While it is true that staff can never tell the public that they should vote yes or no on any piece of legislation, especially library ballot measures, they can help members of the public to get registered to vote and give them information about elections.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(96,96,96);line-height:150%;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:15px"><strong>But We’re Not On the Ballot</strong><br>
Whether or not your library is on the ballot this November, this kind of political advocacy within your community will help you in the years to come. The planning stages before you announce a ballot measure is called surfacing and the more time you take to build your advocates and political supporters before an election, the less work you’ll have to do come election time. So, get started now with National Voter Registration Day!</p>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div><em><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt">Diedre Conkling</span></em><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><br><em><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Lincoln County Library District</span></em><br><em><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">P.O. Box 2027</span></em><br><em><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Newport, OR 97365</span></em><br><em><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Phone & Fax: 541-265-3066</span></em><br><em><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Work email</span></em></span></i><em><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt;font-style:normal">: </span></em><a href="mailto:diedre@lincolncolibrarydist.org" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><font color="#0000ff">diedre@lincolncolibrarydist.org</font></span></i></a><i><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"><br><em><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Home email: </span></em></span></i><a href="mailto:diedre08@gmail.com" target="_blank"><em><span style="color:blue;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt">diedre08@gmail.com</span></em></a></div>
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