Equal voting rights form the foundation of democracy. Honor Martin Luther King, Jr. by collecting IP-26 petition signatures (and recruiting additional volunteers). Our main focus will be the annual Skanner Foundation Breakfast, 8:00 - noon at the Oregon Convention Center (the breakfast is 8:30-10:30am - you are welcome to buy a ticket and attend). Meet there at 8:00am if you are able (north entrance). We will provide handouts and petitions.

If you can’t joins us there, try collecting signatures on your own on Trimet trains around Portland, from friends and neighbors, or wherever you feel comfortable.

If you canvass on your own, download and print at least three volunteer packets at https://www.alloregonvotes.org/petition (one for you and two to hand out to new volunteers). Print at least one additional petition sheet for each hour you will spend collecting signatures. Text, email, or call me if you need petitions delivered to you. Please send in signed petitions promptly to the address on the back of the sheet.

RSVP to Robert at (503)593-0734 or rclose@alloregonvotes.org. Please let me know if you plan to collect signatures anywhere. Future activities are contingent upon good volunteer support.

“So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote, I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind – it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact – I can only submit to the edict of others.” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Give Us the Ballot” (1957).