Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) Challenge

Circles USA invites your participation in our non-partisan Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) Challenge!

COMMIT – Complete one (or more!) of these GOTV activities.

  • Help your friends register to vote. 
  • Educate your friends about early voting with polling locations and/or mail-in voting with mail-in locations.
  • Dedicate your Circles weekly virtual meeting to reviewing a sample ballot.
  • Coordinate transportation for in-person voting.
  • Create voting accountability partners in your Chapter and text each other reminders to vote.
  • Accompany a friend to the polls to protect against voter intimidation.
  • Advertise where to get help on Election Day: the phone number for your local board of elections, as well as national nonpartisan hotlines: 866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683) for English and 888-VE-Y-VOTA (888-839-8682) for Spanish.
  • Take a selfie wearing your Circles shirt while voting.
  • Post to social media your pledge to vote and/or your Chapter’s commitments to these GOTV activities.
  • Use hashtag #VoteforCircles and post your activities to social media. 

Pictured above: Circles Winter Garden, FL

SHARE – Please send Courtney@circlesusa.org:
  • one picture
  • and a few sentences describing your GOTV activities, including how many people participated.
  • CUSA will publicize your Chapter’s GOTV efforts on our social media and in our newsletters. 
WIN –  Every Chapter that participates will be eligible for prizes:

  • an e-copy of CUSA’s book, Bootstraps and Benefits: What the Right and Left Understand about Poverty and How We Can Work Together for Lasting Solutions;
  • a discount to our online Hands-on Training;
  • a discount to our 2021 virtual Leadership Conference;
  • and a virtual Chapter visit from Circles USA’s executive director.