May 8 - Election Action Day

On May 8th thousands of volunteers in 17 states will kick-off six months of voter registration, education and recruitment - join us!

Beginning May 8th we will:

- Register 250,000 new voters
- Contact one million voters about the coming elections
- Recruit 10 million volunteer hours

more ...http://www.americavotes.org/action/

Join 7,000 volunteers to help register voters this Saturday!

Sign up!

Dear MoveOn Member,
It's been a tough few weeks, with pictures of flag-draped coffins coming home from Iraq and the horrifying abuse of prisoners there, and a rollback of longstanding overtime laws by the Bush administration.

So let's do something to change the tone. Let's create a little hope.

Together with a broad coalition we're organizing a National Election Action Day. In battleground states we'll join forces this Saturday, May 8, for the largest one-day voter mobilization in history. So far there are 7,000 volunteers signed up, but we aim to get 10,000 volunteers in order to register hundreds of thousands of voters Saturday. Sign up now:

http://action.moveon.org/may8/
On Saturday we'll have a brief kickoff event where you'll hear from leaders of MoveOn or our partner groups. You'll get some training so you feel confident about registering voters, and then you'll head out in a team to register voters for a few hours. You'll likely be with a buddy during that time, and when it's all done, we'll meet back together to turn in the registration forms and hear the results.

Note that in a few states, where voter registration isn't required or is impractical, we'll substitute another activity, like surveying voters to find out which are undecided and which have made up their minds who to vote for.

Still not sure? If you like, you can watch a couple short videos first, which will show you what the day will be like and let you hear from a MoveOn member who volunteered for a similar effort recently. Go to http://www.moveonpac.org/canv/training.html.

It will also be a chance for you to meet some like-minded people in your neighborhood, including MoveOn members as well as those from other groups like Planned Parenthood, Howard Dean's new group Democracy for America, and local labor unions.

In preparation, thousands of MoveOn members attended community meetings this weekend, with more to come tonight and tomorrow. They came up with some great ideas--like outreach to young people and minorities, or getting absentee ballots to senior centers and VA hospitals--and even more important, nearly all of them signed up to help on Saturday.

The success of this effort will depend on how many of us can pitch in. Can you help? Sign up now at:

http://action.moveon.org/may8/

The Republican Party has been traveling the country with an 18-wheeler registering voters--now it's time for us to do our part. We look forward to seeing you there.