We invite you to help register thousands of Americans on and off the playa! VoterDrive, our art car project for this summer is about getting people out to VOTE in the upcoming national election and people’s local elections.
Are you aware that in Ronald Reagan’s landslide re-election in 1984, he actually received the approval of only about 25 percent of the country’s eligible voters? One quarter!
Now, twenty years later, our voter participation levels are no better. We rank at the very bottom of the list of nations whose governments are determined by popular vote.
Is this any way to run a democracy … especially for a country that is working very hard to encourage democracy in emerging countries?
Please give me a moment to tell you about our nonpartisan art project that is attempting to make a change: VoterDrive.
VoterDrive is an innovative way to strengthen communities and to involve citizens in our democratic process. We, the VoterDrive team will travel 10,000 miles across the U. S. this summer to encourage popular participation in the election process. Driving through big cities, like black rock city, and small towns in an eye-catching, customized school bus, we will be registering new voters and handing out information showing the importance of voting in every election. Again, let me emphasize: this is totally NON-PARTISAN. There will be no electioneering.
The satellite-guided course we follow, specifically designed to take us to many communities otherwise ignored in the national political process, will actually spell out the word “VOTE,” making it the largest conceptual artwork in history. That will draw additional media attention, which will help further our cause of participation.
VoterDrive has a very small operating budget, which comes largely from the fact that everyone working on the project is, and will remain, an unpaid volunteer. Just about all we need is the bus itself, fuel, food, a scanner and printer to record the ID information we’ll need from new voters to file their registration forms, and occasional lodging for our team as we travel. Since the bus will serve as a mobile voter registration office, we’ll also need some basic office resources.
We are sponsored by an art non-profit and any donations are tax deductible.
Please let us know if you are interested in helping get more people out to vote. Any donation of money or items ( see list on website) will help get us closer to the next town.
Our website is http://www.voterdrive.com
VoterDrive is our way of doing something to reverse voter apathy (and even cynicism) and supporting the great experiment we call democracy. I thank you in advance for your support of this project.
Ladymerv
Voterdrive.com
