The Our Homes, Our Votes: 2024 webinar series provides resources, guidance, and inspiration for organizations and individuals seeking to launch or strengthen their own nonpartisan voter and candidate engagement initiatives. The next webinar in the series, “Overcoming Voter Suppression and Building Confidence in Elections,” will take place today (November 4) at 2:30 pm ET. Register for the webinar here.
Deliberate voter suppression tactics, including restrictive voter ID laws, tend to disenfranchise members of the same communities that are at disproportionate risk of housing insecurity and homelessness. Survivors of domestic violence also face a unique set of barriers to safely participating in elections. Misinformation about the voting process can also discourage voters from casting their ballots. This webinar will cover ways that housing and homelessness organizations can empower low-income renters to overcome these obstacles to the ballot box, understand the voting process, vote safely, and go into Election Day with confidence that their ballots will be counted. The panel will feature Kat Calvin, founder of Spread the Vote/Project ID; C. Jay Coles, deputy director of legislative affairs at Verified Voting; and Lyndsey Dearlove, global director of operations at the NO MORE project.
The upcoming webinar dates and topics are listed below. All webinars are held from 2:30 to 3:30 pm ET. For full descriptions of each session and archives of past webinars, visit: www.ourhomes-ourvotes.org/webinars-2024
- Overcoming Voter Suppression and Building Confidence in Elections (Monday, November 4)
- A Look Ahead: Next Steps for Civic Engagement and Housing Justice (Monday, November 18)
For more information about the Our Homes, Our Votes campaign, visit: https://www.ourhomes-ourvotes.org/