Need help registering to vote? Finding your polling place? Or getting reminders for important election dates for your state?
I’m happy to help 🤝🏻
I’ve done this for the past few US elections, and have helped hundreds of people get registered, find their poling place, and make an election day plan. I’ve helped high school students who were turning 18, women in their 80s who had never voted before, and PhD students who found the process confusing. If you’re looking for someone to help — I’m your gal.
So first and foremost is my offer to help you directly. You can hit reply to this email and let me know what you’re struggling with. I’ll do my best to get you an answer or connect you with a better resource.
Below are a list of some of my favorite resources that you might find helpful:
🗳 Check your Registration: Put in your information, and this website will tell you if you are currently registered to vote. If you aren’t, it will walk you through the steps to register. It’s important to check, as people are sometimes purged off voter rolls.
🏛 Find Your Polling Place: Not sure where to vote in person? Put in your address and this site will tell you exactly where to go on election day.
🔔 Get Election Reminders: Local + state elections can be easy to miss when so much attention is on the Presidential Election. Registering here will send you updates via email and/or text.
🗽The States Project: Having good people in office at the state level is REALLY IMPORTANT, especially this year. If you’re worried that states could reverse or overthrow the will of the people (a la 2020’s attempted coup) then you’ll love what this organization is doing to ensure progressive majorities in key swing states. This org is where most of my efforts will be over the next few months.
🔋 Power the Polls: Elections don’t happen without poll workers, and as we saw in 2020, they can end up playing a vital roll in upholding democracy. Many cities are in dire need of more poll workers ahead of the 2024 election. This site will tell you how to volunteer in your city.
✈ Vote from Abroad: If you are an American living outside of the US, you can still vote in the elections. This organization has all the information you need, and one simple form will ensure you are registered + request your absentee ballot from your state for you.
💸 Make Smart Donations: This app called Oath uses data analytics + expert political strategy to determine where your money will have the most impact based on the issues you care about. They do not sell or share your contact info.
If you don’t find answers through those resources, just hit reply and let me know what I can help ya with!
📚 READ: What happened to infant mortality in state’s where abortion has been banned since Roe was overturned? This study published in Jama Pediatrics shows that the abortion ban led to a 13% increase in infants dying in their first month of life, and a 23% increase in infant deaths due to congenital anomalies — conditions that could normally be detected early in a pregnancy, offering parents the chance to terminate a pregnancy that involves a complication that is not compatible with life. Read the article here.
📺 WATCH: The book The Body Keeps the Score has been life changing for many people — but anyone who has read it can tell you that it isn’t the easiest read. It’s written more like a textbook and can get a bit slow, but the information is so great that it’s hard not to recommend it. However, I recently came across this 8-minute video with the author, acclaimed psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, that does a brilliant job of summarizing the key points. Go get smarter in 8 minutes.
🎧 LISTEN: When the earth was first forming, it was hot AF. That fact has left scientists a bit perplexed as to how water got on our little spinning rock — and ended up coving 2/3rds of it! In this series from Unexplained, they explore some of the mysteries of earth. All three episodes are great (would be a fun series for your summer road trip), but I especially loved Where Did Earth Get Its Water.
🧡 ENJOY: I’m still on a real kick with grilling as many meals as we can this summer, and next on my recipe list are these BBQ Salmon Curry Bowls with Mango Avocado Salsa from Half Baked Harvest.
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Hiieee thanks for all the voting info! A reminder that many of us who are registered voters in the US, and our bodies are in the US, also need absentee ballots to vote -- for example I'm a clinician disabled by longcovid, unable to provide clinical care these past four years, and also too disabled to go to a polling place. *Especially a polling place that is indoors and mask-optional while the pandemic rages on and continues killing and permanently disabling people.* Sigh. So, know that you too have the option to protect yourself from covid and all the other viral scaries (a clinical term!), and also cast your vote - one of many ways to participate in making a better world.
Also... thank you soooo much for sharing the data on the ripple effects of strict aborton laws. I studied that, and also what happens when aborton law is expanded, in grad school - it is NOT BORING. Another, less recent but wider-range, resource is the Turnaway Study -- studying longterm impacts on people who are unable to access the abortion care they seek (for whatever reason - lack of providers, gestational age limits). Note though that the author of that study at the time kept saying "women" when describing who might seek or access abortions; she knows now that it's not only women but the language in the original study doesn't reflect that. Link: https://www.ansirh.org/research/ongoing/turnaway-study
Thanks Dani, I appreciate you and the resources and insights you share!