Voter Empowerment
Republican Governor of Virginia Pushes to Restore Voting Rights
There was an interesting Associated Press piece earlier this month about Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell's push to restore voting rights to former felons who have served their debt to society.
Virginia, like Kentucky, is one of four states that takes the right to vote away from all former felons for the rest of their lives even after they've served their debt to society.
Voter Guides in your mailbox!
By this point, most of our members and other friends should have received a copy of KFTC's Voter Guide in the mail. In all, we printed 17,162 and mailed most of them. We'll be passing out the last of the remaining 2,000 at various community events over the next 8 days.
In addition to the statewide Congressional race guide, we have inserts for Louisville, Lexington, Northern Kentucky, and Georgetown covering various local races.
And www.KentuckyElection.org has gotten over 5,000 page views in recent days and has all of the same information from our Voter Guides, plus voting locations and a few late responses from candidates. Please check it out and share it widely with friends through email and social networking sites like Facebook.
KFTC Members Vote! - Even in Primaries
We have a Primary Election two weeks from today on Tuesday May 22nd and KFTC members across the state have been encouraging people to vote and helping to educate about the candidates.
We've been crunching some numbers based on voter files and have found that an average of 73% of KFTC members who are eligible vote in any given Primary Election. This compares to a 25% average turnout amongst eligible Kentuckians as a whole.
KentuckyElection.org is online! See where the candidates stand on our issues
With this year's primary election coming up in just over 2 weeks on Tuesday, May 22nd, we've been working hard to compile responses from a variety of candidates in federal, state, and local races. Soon, we'll mail our Voter Guides to all of our members and begin to hand them out at tabling events around the state, but we've also put them online for anyone to read. You can find all of the responses we've received at www.KentuckyElection.org.
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