Who We Are

We are a group of organizers and volunteers who fell in love with volunteering for voter protection efforts during the 2020 General Election, and fell in love with the hundreds of thousands of voters we met and assisted, whose stories of courage and persistence against sustained voter suppression efforts continue to drive us.

Several of us developed closely knit teams of fellow voter protection volunteers (often called ‘vopro vols’ in campaign lingo) in Wisconsin, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Florida, and other battleground states. In doing so, we fell in love with the camaraderie, community, and inherently meaningful nature of doing voter protection work together as teams of volunteers, because much of the work we do is deeply behind-the-scenes in directly assisting voters who are struggling to navigate often arcane mazes of voting requirements while also encountering non-too-subtle voter suppression tactics.

After the 2020 General Election, we came together from separate state-level groups around the country to work together on voter protection efforts for the Georgia Senate Runoffs in January. We grew from about 100 members in early December to over 500 by January in Georgia.

Thus our vision was born: what if we could continue our efforts beyond Georgia, not just for specific state elections but year-round, and not just for election campaigns but to reform voting laws and processes well before the next election? And what if we could continue to build a community of passionate teams of voter protection volunteers, working together to save democracy, county-by-county, state-by-state?

Come join us and make “what if” into reality!

What We Do

We are in the middle of strategic planning and organization building after our historic efforts to secure and protect Senate victories in Georgia. Based on our bedrock operating principles of helping people focus and engage, we anticipate focusing on five major dimensions with two foundational layers of engagement:

Focus Areas

What are we focused on accomplishing? Most voter protection efforts kick into gear during the heat of an election campaign, such as voter registration drives, helping people get access to their ballots, and recruiting poll observers and poll workers. Meanwhile, though, voter suppression efforts kick into gear long before election cycles, through repressive voting laws and discriminatory processes that get baked into the system well behind the scenes of public awareness. Which means that when voter registration drives begin, we are already constrained by voter eligibility restrictions and arcane hoops for registration requirements. Therefore, we are expanding our focus for voter protection to be year-round and not just tied to election campaigns, so that we can also work on reforming laws and structures that enable voter suppression. Our focus areas therefore are:

1. Voter Eligibility and Registration
   Ensuring citizens become eligible and registered voters

2. Ballot Access
   Ensuring voters are empowered to access and cast their ballots

3. Election Administration, Polling, and Certification
   Ensuring voters’ votes are protected, counted, and certified

4. Legislative Reform: Voting Laws and Processes
   Ensuring 1-3 above improve for voters and voting rights before the next election cycle

5. Structural Reform: Redistricting and Gerrymandering
   Ensuring longer-term change for reversing decades of voter suppression

Engagement Layers

How do we engage these areas? Engagement is a key principle for us: engagement with each other, engagement with other networks, engagement with voters, and simply staying engaged with our own individual tasks and projects in the context of our work here. We believe there are two foundational layers that are absolutely crucial to sustained effort in any of our focus areas:

1. Volunteer Experience & Leadership Development: Recruitment, Training, Coordination, Camaraderie, and Community

2. Data Management & Synchronization