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FYI the Election Protection Hotline is 1-866-OUR-VOTE (call or text).

Important Election Year Deadlines in Massachusetts

Register to vote, and check your registration here. If you have any trouble or need help, call 1866-OUR-VOTE.

DO NOT check your voting status at VOTESAFE.ORG. This is an Elon Musk site that wants your data.

For the November Election

  • October 24 - Voter registration deadline
  • October 27 - Vote by mail application deadline. If you voted by mail, you can track the status of your mail-in ballot here.
  • October 17-30 - Early Voting Period

Visit Early Voting Location, Dates, and Times for more information.

10 Reasons to vote EARLY!

META suspended the No Kings Instagram Account for 4 Hours

On October 17, during the No Kings-Get Out the Vote Early rallies, Meta unexpectedly suspended the No Kings Coalition’s Instagram account (@nokingscoalition) yesterday without any justification given. Fight back by posting your No Kings photos and sharing IMAB posts on your own accounts. Tag them @nokingscoalition!

What midterm election races across the country are worth watching?

Check out races of interest, including those that polling show are likely to go to Democrats as well as some that are long shots, but possible.

I. Support MA Candidates for State Office

Sign up to help Thomas Melville or go to one of his fun events. He is a Democratic candidate for Plainville and several other towns looking to FLIP a seat blue.

Sign up to help Lisa Field or go to one of her fun events. She is a Democratic representative for Easton and Taunton up for re-election. Let’s keep this seat blue.

Please consider donating and volunteering. You can get more information about their candidacy at Field’s and Melville’s website. In addition, IMAB sent questionnaires to all state rep and senate candidates and received responses from Field, Hawkins, and Melville. To see their responses, go here.

IMAB is also proud to support Representative Jim Hawkins in his re-election campaign to represent residents in the City of Attleboro. Please vote for Hawkins, Field, and Melville! Follow and like them on Social Media!

See Progressive Mass for their endorsements, and candidate responses to their questionnaire.

II. Ballot Questions

Here are the ballot questions for November.

Question 1: Expanding the Public Records Law (to the Governor and Legislature)

Question 2: Collective Bargaining for CPCS employees

Learn more about Question 2, which permits the Collective Bargaining for Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) Employees Initiative.

Question 3: State Primary Elections (all-party primaries)

If enacted, Question 3 would fundamentally change how Massachusetts chooses candidates. See the arguments from both sides in the Indivisible Mass Coalition - Coordinated Action Network (IMC-CAN) Weekly Action report.

Question 4: Election Day Registration

Question 5: State Revenue Limit and Rebate (Changes to Chapter 62F)

See the IMC-CAN for more information about Question 5.

Question 6: Natural Resource Conservation Fund

Question 7: Single Family Homes (Starter Home Zoning)

Question 8: Prohibit Retail Sale of Adult Recreational Use Marijuana

Question 9: Firearms Regulation (Gun law repeal)

See the Progressive Mass stand on the 9 ballot questions.

III. Support Candidates Nationwide

  • Sign Up to Social Bank for an hour with Swing Left, engaging with pro-democracy content on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and Twitter. Every Thursday, 7-8pm.

Indivisible Somerville and Organize New Hampshire is canvassing for Chris Pappas on Saturdays. Sign up!

  • Learn from ScamBusters about how to ensure that your donations to PACS are supporting legitimate efforts as opposed to scam PACS.

IV. Protect Voting and Encourage Voters

  • Send personal, NOT group text, to friends with the following message:

Just wanted to let you know that early voting in MA is happening NOW until October 30th. Go here for week and weekend times you can vote at town hall. I’m voting this week/tomorrow/date. Voting early and in person is the best way to cast your vote. FYI go here for more info about the 9 ballot questions. When will you vote? I really want to know.

If they respond positively, follow up with Could you send a message like this to some of your friends?

A few days later, follow up to see if they’ve voted.

  • Join Indivisible Mass Coalition (IMC) Safeguard Elections Action Team meeting every Wednesday at 4:30pm. Register here.
  • Join VoPro Pros to eliminate voter suppression and support free and fair elections. You can work from home and choose whether to sign up for on-going activities, run with communications on Slack, or sign up to help their Rapid Response Network, which has stand alone/short term impactful actions. If you join the Rapid Response Network, you will learn about opportunities to call voters in swing states to help them check on their registration status, to remind them to send in their ballots, and to ask them to be a poll observer.

Watch the first session of Hands Off Our Vote. The next session is August 26 at 8pm.

Louisiana v. Callais Ruling Gutting the Voting Rights Act

  • Learn more about this decision by Civic Nebraska here, by Black Voters Matter here, by the ACLU here, and by United for Democracy here.
  • Go here for a social media tool kit with ready-to-go messages.
  • Racism is at the core of the assaults on democracy and there have been long-term efforts to erode our tools to fight it. Jasmine Crocket held a live panel Tuesday night right after the ruling. It does an amazing break-down of the impacts, implications and what needs to happen – watch the video.

Until Democrats can enact much-needed court reforms to counter the Supreme Court’s gutting the Voter Rights Act, if you can, please donate to the organizations that will be working overtime to counteract this decision:

REMEMBER

Things are NOT hopeless. This is a setback, NOT the end.

This decision is NOT final. This is a pivot point for what comes next.