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Citizen Sundays serve two purposes. First, they make it easy for church attendees to register to vote. Second, they provide information about the propositions on this November's ballot. Setting up the Citizen Sunday should be a straightforward process for volunteers, too.
There are four steps to hosting a Citizen Sunday.
- First, contact your pastor. We suggest you give him a letter (PDF) by the Pacific Justice Institute, which informs pastors about the legality of hosting a Citizen Sunday. Ask permission to host Citizen Sunday. You may also ask him to announce the Citizen Sunday and its purposes in church, so that more people benefit from your work.
- Second, get voter registration cards. These are available from your county elections office, which you can locate online.
- Third, set up a table at church. You will need pens so that people can fill their voter registration cards. A candy dish or doughnuts will draw attention, while a tablecloth and small flag serve as nice decorations. When people approach, you can ask if they are registered to vote, moved recently (which requires them to update their voter registration), or recently turned 18.
- Finally, print resources that make it easy for people to learn about the November election's issues. On the Church Resources page, you will find our analysis of each proposition on the ballot. There are also bulletin inserts on why voting matters and why the California Marriage Protection Act (Prop 8) is important. As California citizens read these inserts in their bulletins, leading up to Election Day, they will be educated on the issues and better equipped to vote with confidence.
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