SAVE OUR ELECTIONS. SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY 

ACTION ONE: CALL YOUR SENATORS

SAMPLE SCRIPT FOR WYDEN AND MERKLEY:

My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because…
I am very worried about our elections after foreign attacks and what the Supreme Court did yesterday. I ask the Senator to:   
  • Do all he can to get HR 1 (For the People Act) and HR 2722(Securing America’s Federal Elections Act) passed in the Senate; 
  • Do all he can to get the PAVE (Protecting American Votes and Elections) Act passed in the Senate; 
  • Call for an immediate impeachment inquiry to investigate the foreign inference in our elections and Trumps obstruction of justice. 

ACTION TWO: CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS

Not sure who your U.S. Representative is? Find out here. 

SAMPLE SCRIPTS FOR REPRESENTATIVES:

My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because…
I am very worried about our elections after foreign attacks and what the Supreme Court did yesterday. I ask the Representative to:   
  • Do all he/she can to get the PAVE (Protecting American Votes and Elections) Act passed in the House; 
  • Call for an immediate impeachment inquiry to investigate the foreign inference in our elections and Trumps obstruction of justice. 

ACTION THREE: REGISTER VOTERS

Indivisible Oregon is organizing letter-writing parties using Swing Left tools to contact voters whose voter registration data may need updating.   
Find a letter writing party near you or organize one yourself: https://swingleft.org/events.  
Portlanders, join a party on the fourth Tuesday of every month. See:  https://swingleft.org/event/register/action_network:e05c67b8-34ab-40b2-abfc-ab9c92bc44ba?source=%2Fevents&s=u

BACKGROUND:

Free and fair elections are the bedrock of a democracy.  And our elections are under attacks from foreign interference, obstruction of justice, and hyper-partisan politics.  
The 2016 election was attacked by a foreign power, Trump welcomed those attacks, and he obstructed justice to impede the investigation of said attacks.  The Democratic-led House has passed legislation to protect our elections but Senate Majority Leader McConnell refuses to take it up. 
Our elections are being attacked by hyper-partisan politics. Leader McConnell denied Merrick Garland a seat on the Supreme Court. Trump and McConnell then installed Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh instead.  The Supreme Court is now a partisan entity where 15 out of the last 19 justices have been appointed by Republicans while winging the popular vote only once. Yesterday the Court ruled that partisan gerrymandered districts can stand.  The voice of the people is being sacrificed for partisan power.   
To save our democracy, we must save our elections.  Call your MoCs and demand legislation to protect our elections and an immediate impeachment inquiry to investigate the 2016 elections and Trump’s obstruction.  Then join us in working to elect a new Congress in the 2020 elections. 

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