Americans voted decisively for Biden-Harris. We are likely to see (once California is done) a more than five million vote margin victory. The percentage win might rival President Obama’s 52.93% in 2008 when counting is done. Despite Trump’s floundering whining, there will be a solid electoral college victory.
Regrettably, despite the large popular vote victory (which includes voting for Congressional races), the Republicans clawed back seats in the House and there wasn’t a flip of the U.S. Senate — at least not yet. We have a chance to influence this … over the next 30 hours.
Georgia Democrats are working — hard — to “cure” ballots. Cure: what a great term. This is going back to correct errors (real or claimed) by legitimate voters in their absentee/mail-in ballots that prevent the ballot from being counted. There are lists of these voters … they are supposed to be contacted … and, these are highly (HIGHLY) motivated voters. They voted. They know their votes really matter (as Georgia is so close) to both the Presidential and Senate races. They want their votes counted.
You … I … we … have an opportunity to help the Georgia Democratic Party … and Democracy … and humanity’s future over the next 30 hours by getting trained up to and then contacting Georgia voters whose ballots have some form of error that requires curing. Those 30 hours? The deadline is 5 pm Friday … 5 pm tomorrow.
To do this, one must “train” up to learn the specific points and help these voters navigate the system. This video is the baseline (required).
After watching the video, sign up and start making calls.
Consider the implications
While the electoral college implications of Georgia are, almost certainly, just ‘running up the count’, this running up the count has important symbolic implications including a notable “Deep South” Democratic Presidential win that sets the stage for the future.
More importantly, the fate of Democracy could well rest on this curing which could push us to having two runoff Senate elections in Georgia. While this requires threading a needle (multiple needles), Georgia could well spell the difference of Majority Leader McConnell or a Democratic Party Senator as Majority Leader (fill the blank Democratic Party Senator if unhappy with Schumer). Imagine the difference in the U.S. Senate if Georgia is represented by Senator Warnock (vs Loeffler) and Senator Ossoff (vs Perdue). Imagine … IMAGINE … and train up to make calls to cure the vote so that we can start threading the needles to this better future.
NOTE …
In terms of phone banking, curing can provide rewarding moments.
- First, 100% of the people you call ARE VOTERS!
- Second, they care about their votes and are typically not happy to consider them not being counted.
- Third, there is a good chance that you will be the first person to contact them and the person that will help them walk through what they need to do. If (when) that happens, you will have sincerely grateful people on the other end of the line who are ready and willing to act to make sure their vote gets counted.
And, if you go through this, you will end your call knowing — with a certainty — that you had an impact that will show up in the final vote tally in Georgia.