Voting Rights
Who gets to vote –and how easily– is important, because it determines election results. Election Day IPA supports efforts to involve more people in civic engagement. It is DYV’s deep belief that the vibrancy of democracy increases when more people participate; when people understand how local, state, and national politics impact their daily lives; and when voters make informed decisions regarding the issues and candidates they support.

For ten years, we have faced deliberate statewide efforts to decrease voter participation through the passage of Voter ID laws, reduction of early voting, consolidation of polling locations, and the purging of voter rolls. These and other efforts to discourage individuals from voting are targeted at young people, people of color, and low-income Americans.

This CANpaign supports activities to expand access and ease of voting through voter registration efforts, monitoring and challenging unjust voter roll purges, and supporting local organizations who work to educate and turn out unlikely voters.

Supported Organization
Profits from Election Day IPA support the Ohio Organizing Collaborative (OOC), an innovative alliance of organizations across the state uniting community groups, faith institutions, labor unions, and policy groups. It is the vision of OOC to organize everyday Ohioans to build a transformative base of power for the purpose of achieving social, racial, and economic justice. OOC carries out this mission by investing in a diverse portfolio of organizing campaigns, movement-building work, non-partisan electoral programs, and leadership training.

OOC works to increase participation in the electoral process, believing that civic engagement contributes to healthy communities. For over a decade, OOC has run successful non-partisan civic engagement programs across Ohio, impacting hundreds of thousands of voters. They have registered over 370,000 Ohioans to date.