Twice a week, volunteers at HRC headquarters in DC know that they have a chance to turn out one more vote to defend LGBT equality each time they pick up the phone to make a call.
During HRC’s Dialing for Equality events, volunteers call into Maine to identify voters who support same-sex marriage and it is not easy work. They are calling into rural areas of Maine and connecting with voters who are not necessarily going to support marriage equality (judging from various demographic/voting trends). That makes this phone banking work all the more important.
Just last week alone, HRC volunteers made calls to 1,186 Maine households but it still isn’t enough.
Beating Question 1 – a referendum on the Maine ballot in November which would repeal a bill passed by the state legislature providing same-sex couples with the equal right to marry – is about turning out voters. Each voter that volunteers identify as a supporter of marriage equality is like gold; it is one more vote to win that we didn’t know we had. Once volunteers in DC identify those voters, the campaign can focus on turning them out to vote.
We have been defeated 34 times at the ballot box – including Prop 8 in CA – and we cannot let it happen again in Maine.
If you live in the DC Metro area, we need your help! How about volunteering one day a week? Or one weeknight a month? For more information and to sign up, visit: http://hrc.org/dialforequality
Have questions? Email Will at will.nevius@hrc.org
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