HELP WITH VOTER REGISTRATION
A message from Pearl Livingstone, on behalf of:
Northeast Ohio Voter Advocates
With the Primary Election coming up on Tuesday,
May 4th, it's getting to be voter registration time. Registration for the primary ends on Monday, April 5, 2010. Some exciting
registration venues are on the schedule for our new non-profit, Northeast Ohio Voter Advocates (NOVA), and I look forward
to hearing from you in connection with these opportunities.
First,
we have arranged with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District to register all qualified students in the 22 high
schools this month. All 17-year-olds who will 18 by Election Day, November 2, 2010, can vote in the
primary on May 4th for candidates only, not issues. The Ohio Secretary of State's office has been promoting
this through Vote@17, and NOVA is working with the CMSD to make this happen here.
Registration will take place during these two weeks:
Monday, March
22 - Friday, March 26
Monday, March 29 - Thursday, April 1
Volunteer teams of 2-4 registrars each will be assigned to a school.
Each school will name a coordinator for
Voter Registration who will select from four registration options:
1. Student-run
registration drives: NOVA will train students
2. Teacher-run drives: NOVA will train the teachers
3. NOVA volunteers
come to the classrooms to register
4. Student Council, National Honor Society, or other designated student groups work
with NOVA volunteerss to register students in the classrooms.
We
need your help with Options 3 and 4.
As many as 4,500 students may be registered as new voters,
giving the CMSD a chance to score a first in voting rights in one of the state's largest school districts!
Our teams of registrars will work in medium-size schools from 8:30 am (school
starts at 8) to 12:30 pm. Larger schools will have two shifts, mornings from 8:30 am to noon and afternoons from
noon to 2:30 pm. Please check your calendars and let me know the dates and times you are available.
I will be meeting with the chairpersons of the English and Social Studies Departments who will
designate the voter registration coordinators on March 16th. I will contact you after the 16th with a school and time slot.
I will also arrange to place you on a team if you don't specify with whom you would like to work.
Other Registration Opportunities
NOVA will be registering voters at Dave's Supermarkets the weekend of Saturday, March 20, and
Sunday, March 21, from 11:00 am - 2:00 pm.
Five
Dave's Markets are available, including:
22501 Shore Center Drive (Euclid)
3565 Ridge Road (Cleveland)
7422 Harvard Avenue (Slavic Village)
16820 Harvard Avenue (Harvard/Lee)
4948 Turney Avenue (Garfield Height).
We will also do registration at the
Cleveland Public Library, Louis Stokes Wing, downtown, at 325 Superior Avenue, on Mondays and Tuesdays, March 22-23,
March 29-30, and April 4-5 from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm.
I
look forward to hearing from each and every one of you.
Pearl Livingstone
216 752-9646
pearliving@ameritech.net