Posted by: Carissa Lenfert on October 2, 2012
Last night's monthly KFTC Chapter Development Armchair Seminar focused on how to organize a local voter registration drive in your chapter or local area.
Posted by: Stephanie Tyree on October 1, 2012
As the election nears, KFTC members in the Perry and Letcher chapters have been tabling at local fall festivals to register voters. KFTC had a booth at the Hazard Black Gold Festival again this year and registered 25 voters over 2 days. Perry County Steering Committee Representative Katie Pirotina and Knott County member Fern Nafziger helped staff the table during Black Gold, enjoying the parade that passed right in front of our tables while we registered voters from throughout many eastern Kentucky counties.
Posted by: Dave Newton on October 1, 2012
Our Scott County KFTC chapter has a big week this week
Tonight - There will be a Scott County City Council forum at 6pm at First Baptist Church 1330 Lexington Rd. It's sponsored by M.O.V.E. Inc. and partially publicized by our allies at the NAACP.
Wednesday - Georgetown College KFTC members and friends are spearheading a voter registration drive on campus from 11am to 2pm in the heart of campus.
Thursday - There's a Scott County KFTC Chapter Meeting coming up at 7pm at the Georgetown Library. We'll also be scheduling a series of other events including phone banks that evening.
Posted by: Greg Capillo, CKY KFTC member on September 27, 2012
It wasn't just another quiet day at the office at the Joe Craft Center at the University of Kentucky on September 13.
Posted by: Kentuckians For The Commonwealth on September 25, 2012
We might know all sorts of budget numbers, tax statistics, and studies that tell us about the factors that weigh in to where business owners decide to locate and hire, but we still won't get very f
Posted by: Dave Newton on September 25, 2012
Voter registration cards must be turned by two weeks from today - Tuesday, October 9th - into the correct County Clerk's office by the end of business hours, or postmarked and mailed to either the correct County Clerk or the State Board of Elections.
Note that 17 year-olds who will be 18 on November 6th or earlier must register now so they can vote in the election.
Also note that students away at school can either use their permanent home address or their temporary school address as their voter registration address. It's completely up to them, but given that election day is a school day we encourage students to consider registering at school – because they're much more likely to vote if the voting location is close and easy to get to.
Posted by: Dave Newton on September 25, 2012
This past weekend, our allies at People Advocating Recovery (PAR) held their big, annual Rally For Recovery in Louisville and KFTC members were invited as always to talk to people about our campaign to restore voting rights to former felons who have served their debt to society.
In all, we collected over 250 postcards in support of voting rights for former felons, registered half a dozen voters, and helped over a dozen former felons to start the process to request their rights back through the Governor's office.
Some of the former felons we met were veterans of the armed services or otherwise people who had served their time long ago. Few had any idea what the process might be to get voting rights restored in Kentucky and some had been given a lot of misinformation in the past.
Posted by: Carey Henson on September 25, 2012
Last week, the Madison County chapter of KFTC partnered with Eastern Kentucky University for a Rock the Vote festival on campus. Despite the rain, hundreds of students gathered for a cookout and live music. Chapter members Margaret Ricketts and David Fields, along with student volunteers, registered two hundred fifty-two voters over the course of the day.
At lunch the rush to register was so long that a registration table and clipboards in the crowd still left people in line. But they waited patiently. Many students were excited about the opportunity to vote in their first presidential election.
Posted by: Cory Lowery on September 21, 2012
On September 19th, several members of the Madison County Chapter joined with Bereans For Fairness and students from Berea College to mark the one year anniversary of Berea's Human Rights Commission
Posted by: Kentuckians For The Commonwealth on September 21, 2012
The Bowling Green City Commission voted 4 - 1 to pass a local tax cut for businesses, the costs of which are unknown.
