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Sacramento Votes!
Over two Saturdays in January and February of 2008, more than 100 youth and 50 adults fanned out across Sacramento to talk to their neighbors about the importance of voting in the February 5th election. This non-partisan effort is part of a state-wide strategy to increase voting in communities where voter participation is extremely low, and part of ACT's overall commitment to increase political power in underrepresented populations. We believe that when traditionally underrepresented communities vote with greater frequency, their voices are heard and the issues affecting their families and neighborhoods recieve more attention from elected officials.
With precinct walk list and polling location cards in hand, more than 150 ACT volunteers visited over 2,500 homes and apartments throughout Sacramento to remind their neighbors to vote. Read more about some experiences of youth from Burbank High School in this January 26th SacBee article. For this project, Sacramento ACT partnered with Project Sunday at Burbank High School, Genesis Church, the Just Faith group of the Sacramento Diocese, The Rock Youth Group in Elk Grove, the Hmong student group "HUSA" from Sac State, Power Forward, and many other ACT congregations and community groups in the Gardenland, Del Paso Heights, and Oak Park communities.
Sacramento ACT is part of a California-wide partnership with professors from Yale, CSU East Bay, and the Irvine Foundation to evaluate which "Get Out the Vote" methods are most effective. The results of the evaluation will help ACT become even more successful in turning infrequent voters into engaged participants in the local, state, and federal political process.
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