iVoteValues

Voter Registration Events

Ten-Step Church-Wide Voter Registration Strategy

1. The first step is to ask your Pastor for his permission and blessing. Encourage your Pastor to visit the Pastors Only section of this site for encouragement and resources for message preparation and promotion.
2. Recruit an iVoteValues Team: If you already have a Christian Life Committee, Issues Concern Group, or the like, they may be assigned this responsibility. If not, recruit and appoint a team that will run point on voter registration, education, and mobilization efforts among your congregation. The iVoteValues Team would be responsible for the following:
   • Planning, advertising, and conducting non-partisan voter registration and get-out-the-vote drives.
   • Educating the congregation regarding biblical teaching on civil government, the responsibility for cultural engagement, and the importance of being informed by biblical principles when considering current issues, candidates’ positions, etc.
   • Mobilizing members of the congregation to vote their values.
3. Calendar iVoteValues Voter Registration Sunday events.
4. Acquire needed resources, such as Bulletin Inserts, Promotional Materials, Voter Registration Forms, etc., from your local Election Commission Supervisor, or from our resource page.
5. Advertise in advance when and where you will be holding the registration drive. Place a notice in your church bulletin, bulletin boards, PowerPoint, and website announcements. Also ask your pastor to make an announce ment during church services and perhaps offer a word of encouragement about the registration drive a few weeks prior to the event and on the day of the event.
6. Set up a Voter Registration Center in your church. Make sure your registration table is in a prominent, high traffic area in your church and that it has a partiotic style. Have volunteers scheduled to man the registration table and answer questions. Don’t be afraid to ask people if they are registered. Ask if they are registered at the location where they currently live. Ask if they wish to change parties. If they are almost 18 years of age, they can still regis ter; however, they will not receive their registration card until they turn 18. Provide handouts with the dates of the elections for the current year, issues oriented info, etc.
7. Conduct iVoteValues Voter Registration Sundays. Here are some suggestions:
   • Encourage your Pastor to preach on a Christian’s responsibility to participate in government and vote. Click here for messages and other resources.
   • Invite those not registered to vote fill out voter registration forms during or immediately following worship.
   • Have the iVoteValues Team or the church ushers collect the forms.
8. Deliver the signed Voter Registration forms to your local election commission supervisor as soon as possible.
9. Make sure those voters who will be out of town on Election Day 2008 request an Absentee Ballot.
10. On Election Day 2008, provide transportation to the polls as needed.