Our Programs

By using a model created by the Combined Campaign Voter Protection Team in 2020, REV UP NC will develop ten regions with ten counties in each. The regions are further broken down into five county sub regions and single county areas. This model uses targeted email or text messaging to known active voters who would be most likely to volunteer and inviting them to a webinar that explains the mission and goal of the campaign in hopes that they will become team members in REV UP NC's project. At the end of the webinar, a short survey will be completed to glean contact information and availability to volunteer. From that survey, volunteers will be contacted to serve in the hierarchical structure of the project: leads at regional, sub regional, and county levels. Between the presidential elections of 2016 and 2020, the percentage of people with disabilities that voted fell from 64.5% in 2016 to 58.9% in 2020. This decline was attributed to registered voters not exercising their right to vote across all populations of voters, not just those with a disability. REV UP NC envisions increasing the percentage of the voters with disabilities to that or greater than that percentage in 2016 by educating our target populations about any and all hindrances that stand in between any person with a disability or any other marginalized group and their ability to cast a ballot. If we are successful, the measurable impact will be noted in the rise of the percentage of votes cast by people with disabilities. The exciting thing about that statement is an increase in the disability vote increases the likelihood that all voting percentages rise. This happens because conducting education about the hindrances to casting a vote for one person causes is ripple effect as that person passes on what they learned to others. Democracy thrives when all people are able to easily participate in the voting process.  The model of the recruiting process for this project has demonstrated historical success because it is based on the model created by the Combined Campaign Voter Protection Team in 2020. That project was tasked with signing up poll observers in all 100 counties. In the nine county region where the founding members of REV UP NC live and participated in the Combined Campaign's project, all slots in each of the nine counties were filled for all the early voting sites and for the top ten most populated polling sites on Election Day. The poll observer project began in August of 2020, which gave the teams three months to complete the task. REV UP NC's Voter ID program will also start in August and target rural counties with municipal races being held in November of 2023. This will be the test project to build upon for the state and national races in 2024.