New Wiki Post for USA Voting Support

August 2, 2024 10:14 AM

Using the information from several recent posts about how to support voter turnout in the upcoming U.S. Presidential election, I have created a VotingSupport page in Metafilter Wiki that lists specific organizations that work to educate and support voters. If you are looking for somewhere to volunteer, donate, or get help in voting, I hope you will take a look at this page.

This page is a work in progress; as you encounter other organizations that would fit into this list, please feel free to add them. (It's easy! I know, because I have never done anything like this before and yet I got it done.) Speaking of how this got done, it was inspired by threads posted initially by Notlost, kristi, nat, and lalochezia. The individual organizations were pulled from their original posts and the many comments posted by MeFites. Once I got the idea , nothing could have happened without the very patient help from travelingthyme and jessamyn. You are all the best!

posted by ALeaflikeStructure to MetaFilter-Related at 10:14 AM (14 comments total)

ALeaflifeStructure, you are a treasure.

That is an absolutely outstanding wiki page. What a wonderful job you did.

Thank you for doing this!
posted by kristi at 11:44 AM on August 2 [5 favorites]

How awesome to have all those resources in one place!! Thank you!
posted by hilaryjade at 3:33 PM on August 2 [1 favorite]

Hot dang, this is great! Thank you! Mods, etiquette question: okay to put a link to this in a comment to posts where it seems apropos? Or is that uncool?
posted by humbug at 5:35 PM on August 2 [2 favorites]

I have created a VotingSupport page in Metafilter Wiki that lists specific organizations that work to educate and support voters.

Can we throw in Vote from Abroad to help out all the 'Ricans living outside the States?

Also, if you want, I can get you the info of each of the individual country committees for "Democrats Abroad" to help people register.
posted by hal_cy_on at 7:01 PM on August 2 [3 favorites]

Sidebar for this amazing work!
posted by ellieBOA at 3:30 AM on August 3 [3 favorites]

Thank you for all the kind comments. While I truly meant it when I said that anybody could add material to this website, I have decided that I will continue to add sites rather than waiting for others to put them up. I think it's more important to get as much information as possible in one place than to be fussy about who does it. That said, I have added Vote from Abroad and the voting page from the National Coalition for the Homeless website.
posted by ALeaflikeStructure at 7:39 AM on August 3 [3 favorites]

Mod note: This post has been added to the sidebar and Best Of Blog!

I've also changed the title of this post to note that it's about USA voting support.
posted by Brandon Blatcher (staff) at 7:49 AM on August 3 [4 favorites]

Thanks for doing this, it's a great resource!
posted by box at 1:29 PM on August 3 [1 favorite]

I was glad to help.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 1:49 PM on August 3 [2 favorites]

This is awesome!

I have been talking to my young adult kids about the election, and it's great to turn the advice about "check your voter registration" into "hey, let's check your voter registration right this second."
posted by wenestvedt at 10:30 AM on August 4 [3 favorites]

Bookmarked!
posted by eirias at 11:05 AM on August 4 [1 favorite]

YEAHHHHHHH
posted by rrrrrrrrrt at 5:49 PM on August 7 [1 favorite]

I just asked for suggestions on AskMe (I didn't know about this MeTa until someone linked it there), and a friend I'd been talking to outside MetaFilter suggested Indivisible, which looks really great!
posted by tzikeh at 10:56 AM on August 10

Outstanding, thank you!
posted by greenwitch at 6:06 PM on August 11