Cville Dems will resume our Thursday Get Out the Vote efforts at IX Park after the June 18 primary election, from June 27 through October 31. As during the past four years, we’ll send postcards with voting information to anyone who has registered since January 1, 2024, until voter registration ends.
[In the meantime, if your fingers are itching to start writing postcards, there’s a (unaffiliated with Cville Dems) group meeting on Mondays from 10-12 at the Dunlora Club House. For more information, contact Mary Farrell at 703-655-3867 or wmekmf118@gmail.com. Also, May 24, 1-3pm with Donna Shaunessey, mail to: shaunesey@hotmail.com.]
Once early voting starts in September, we’ll call and remind them of the different ways to vote in Cville. Then, hopefully, precinct captains will coordinate a door knock for each new voter. We hope to to coordinate with Albemarle County Dems to reach out to their new voters as well.
We’ll also be mailing postcards, making phone calls, and knocking on the doors of Cville voters who voted in the 2020 Presidential election but haven’t voted since, urging them to once again exercise their right to vote!
But…postcard writing is just one of the many things we do on Thursday nights. We coordinate weekly with campaigns to launch canvassors, and have phone banks and text banks. So…for one night each week, volunteers from Cville and Albemarle County can come together to do whatever volunteer activity they choose while enjoying the companionship of fellow Dems.
This year, we’ll also be working closely with Rural Ground Game to increase the Democratic voter turnout in the 5th District as well as other rural Congressional Districts. We’re not sure what they’ll call on us to do, other than phone banking, text banking, and postcard writing.
RIGHT NOW, we need:
- volunteers to register new voters all over the city—at farmers’ markets, senior living communities, City of Promise, UVA Move-in Day, and many businesses and restaurants. If interested, email Suzanne Michels, suzemichels@gmail.com
- volunteers at Cville Dems tables at all polling places on June 18. If interested, email Mary Ann Harris, harrisma49@gmail.com.
- volunteers to do issue-related text banking for Rural Ground Game to the 5th District and other rural Congressional Districts. If interested, email Mary Ann Harris, harrisma49@gmail.com.
Our wonderful voter registration team, led by Suzanne Michels and Barbara Shenefield, is very active in the lead-up to Election Day: registering new voters (including those who’ve recently moved to or within our area), helping voters figure out where they can vote, and helping folks who need to have their voting rights restored file the necessary paperwork.
Everyone on the Voter Registration Team (and anyone who’d like to join!) needs to be certified each year, defined as July 1-June 30; even folks who’ve done it for years still need to recertify. The two online options, self-study or instructor-led online sessions, are explained on the 
Our wonderful voter registration team, led by Suzanne Michels and Barbara Shenefield, registered voters for the Democratic Primary up to the last minute; now registration moves to the Registrar’s Office (see above for times). The VR team will be at the Ix Market the next two Saturdays to educate folks about where to vote and who’s on the ballot.