Promote the Vote, Protect the Vote 2022

A federal lobby day typically means going to Capitol Hill, traveling between office buildings, and ultimately meeting in-person with congressional staff or even your members of Congress. Unfortunately, given COVID-19, we can’t plan traditional lobby visits. But that doesn’t mean we can’t make our voices heard! This overview has all the information you need to plan a successful virtual lobby visit on any issue.
Below is a virtual lobby day visit 101 video that walks you through the steps of planning and participating in a virtual lobby day and contains a lobby visit role play.
Your vote is your voice and it is incumbent on all of us to do everything in our power to ensure every voice is heard in our democracy. Below are some helpful resources, upcoming programs, and ways to take action to ensure that EVERYONE has access to the polls.
To ensure your vote counts, decide how you will vote when you will vote, where you will vote, and what you need to bring with you. Use NCJW’s online registration tool to find your polling information. Encourage your families and networks to do the same.
If your voting plan includes voting by mail, be sure to take your ballot in person to an official drop box or to your poll location. It is too late to mail-in ballots.
Contact your state board of elections or check out your state’s absentee ballot rules to learn about your state laws, deadlines, and what’s required to vote by mail.
We are in the midst of a nationwide poll worker shortage due to the coronavirus, already leading to long lines and voter disenfranchisement in several primaries. Sign up through our partnership with Power the Polls.
Receive training through Election Protection to make sure eligible voters can make their voices heard. Depending on your state, you can volunteer as a poll monitor, roving poll monitor, social media monitor, and voter contact. Sign up here.
Use these talking points to write action alerts, press statements, and other collateral.
Partner Phone Banking/GOTV Opportunities & More
Join NCJW’s partners in various phone banking opportunities and Get Out the Vote opportunities leading up to the election.
Sections are the heart of NCJW. Turn your values into action locally! Find a section in your community.
Help us continue our critical voting rights work by making a donation to NCJW
Proposed rule to reduce or eliminate unnecessary burdens to and restrictions on religious entities to participate in higher education (expected any time).
Proposed rule designed to weaken the Department’s provisions regarding significant disproportionality in the identification, placement, and discipline of students with disabilities with regard to race and ethnicity (expected March 2020).
Final rule governing how colleges respond to incidents of sexual assault and harassment under Title IX (expected any time).