Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Sep 6, 2014."In historic first, DeKalb to reserve a Sunday for voting in October"
Next month, for the first time in state history, some Georgia voters will be able to cast their ballots on a Sunday.
In an effort to boost turnout, DeKalb County — the state’s richest source of Democratic votes — is about to name Oct. 26 as an extra day to vote, as well as a day of rest.
Look for other counties to follow.
DeKalb County’s interim CEO, will announce the move Monday, even as first lady Michelle Obama tours Atlanta on behalf of Nunn. Her stops will include a voter registration rally.
Other vote-generating efforts that DeKalb officials will announce include the opening of an early-voting station within the Gallery at South DeKalb. The mall is one of the most heavily trafficked venues in the county, dominated by African-American shoppers.
The polling station within the Gallery at South DeKalb will be among three open on the last Sunday in October. Think busloads of churchgoers, perhaps from the 25,000-member New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, pastored by Bishop Eddie Long, turning the day into a social event.
We understand that Clayton County, where voters will decide whether to accept an expansion of MARTA, may be next — perhaps followed by Rockdale, Bibb, Douglas, Muscogee and Richmond counties.
Anywhere Democrats control local government, and where African-American churches are a substantial part of the political fabric.
Do you live in another Georgia county? Then perhaps contact your leaders and demand Sunday early voting too!
the move to Sunday voting will come as a surprise to Georgia Republicans.
Yes, yes it will. But the best surprise of all would be a Governor Jason Carter and a Senator Nunn.
Count my car as officially available to drive some souls to the polls.
Here's some background about our historic GOTV efforts.
From "The DNC Knows Everything About You". August 22, 2014. http://www.thedailybeast.com/...
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is calling their $60 million turnout operation “the Bannock Street Project.” The Democratic National Committee calls theirs the Voter Expansion Project. DuBose Porter, the chairman of the Democratic Party of Georgia where the DSCC and DNC are both invested and where Democrats must win to keep their Senate majority, has his own term for getting out the vote in 2014.
“I call it getting souls to the polls,” he says.
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“We’re going to break some of those glass ceilings in Georgia,” Porter said. “Nobody imagined that could happen a year ago but it’s going to happen this year. Not 2018. Now.“
Porter called the turn-out technology that the DNC has provided state parties “incredible,” while Wasserman Schultz laid out exactly how it is designed to help a state like Georgia turn from red to blue.
“It’s so much deeper than just voter registration,” she said. “It allows us to micro-target, going into a precinct in a community in Georgia, looking specifically down to the block level to identify that there is a potential Democrat who, if we get them to register and then turn them out to vote, cumulatively we can make a difference about whether the Democrat wins or not.”
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