I just joined a non-profit Christian organization that promotes getting Christians out to vote. Last election 30 million Christians sat out on the elections and if even 1/4 of them got out, it would have made a difference, I think.
I know some of you are pastors and leaders for your churches. I encourage you to join the “Champion the Vote” initiative to help get more Christians out to vote this year.
For more details, visit the Champion the Vote website or see the video below:
Grace for Grace 
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October 5, 2012 at 7:28 am
seagull
Thanks for that segment.
The first and last part would be good as a quick ‘commercial’ for those in the congregation to see. Is it possible to edit that clip and splice those sections together and to post it on this forum?
Some churches have projection screens–again, airing that 30 second piece would be a good prompting for the unregistered to become registered. Here in our state, we can register at the booth, with proof of residence or someone to ‘vouch’ for them. A lot of people have had a chance to vote that way–including those who otherwise would be disallowed: aliens, cartoon characters, and the dead ;=)
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October 5, 2012 at 10:57 am
graceforgrace
Hi Seagull,
I live in WA. That happened a few years ago with a democratic governor. The Republican won and they decided they needed to do a “re-count” and then suddenly the Democratic governor won…a few months later they found out that there had been a bunch of people who “voted” that had died years prior to the race.
Pass this along to your congregations though. You can also join the organization and send emails or make phone calls to get Christians out to vote.
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October 5, 2012 at 7:38 am
seagull
If I may comment on my own comment…
I just noticed, after I ran the piece again, that similar movies were available in the YouTube section.
Here is a good ‘stand-alone’ encouragement to would-be voters. Take a look!
Thanks again!
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October 6, 2012 at 7:06 am
Jettboy
Personally, I never was very keen on commercials that tried to get people to vote for the sake of voting. Unless you are a partisan trying to get your person into office, it really doesn’t make any sense to do more than remind the population that its voting time. I didn’t vote until my late 20s after I was married. She insisted and I did it as “duty” to her, and because I felt it was time.
It wasn’t that I didn’t care (as I was and still am partisan), but that I knew enough people were voting and in the direction I wanted that it didn’t matter. As you notice, the opposite of that would be if I didn’t trust the population to vote the way I wanted and might have a chance to actually be influential. In fact, when I read the headline of the blog post “Getting more Christians to Vote,” it automatically got my partisan heart racing as I knew that if more Christians would vote then the national election would go more my way. Voting patterns have proven this.
Why would you want people in general to vote? People talk about the “evils” of vote suppression, but I don’t see a problem with it if its done legally. Democrats do it by insisting the inevitable of their candidate. Republicans do it by giving the opposition a false sense of security of the same. I am under the belief that if more people vote for the sake of voting that Democracy will see its downfall much more quickly. The only thing worse than an unengaged electorate is an uneducated one picking “The Next Star” candidates. Hitler was voted into office by too much use of election democracy.
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October 6, 2012 at 3:05 pm
graceforgrace
Hi Jettboy,
I was being pretty PC when I wrote this, but the background to this is that the organization is a conservative Christian organization and the majority of people who register here are going to vote conservative. If you join and send out emails with the links to register, they are going to conservative voters, most likely.
Conservative Christians need to get out there. They hold the keys to this election this year and you can clearly see which of our presidential candidates tries to follow God’s will.
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October 6, 2012 at 7:56 am
Cal
Jettboy, you’ve expressed some of my sentiments. I am convinced that the country would be better off if the people who vote Democratic all the time would stay home. It’s those who have their eyes open and can see that the Republican party, although far from perfect, is taking us in the right direction are the ones who need to vote. (I know I’m not being politically correct here, but when was Jesus ever politically correct.)
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October 6, 2012 at 3:07 pm
graceforgrace
Cal,
Your state is a swing state (NH right?). If you joined this and invited your conservative Christian friends to spread the word, even a few emails could make a huge difference. This organization is a conservative organization.
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October 7, 2012 at 7:43 pm
Mark N.
Hugh Hewett broadcasts a show from a right wing radio station (as if there were any such thing as left wing radio) here in the Sacramento area a couple of days ago, and he was interviewing someone whose goal was to get out the Christian vote, and they kept referring to this bloc of voters as “values voters”. Oh, yes, I see: if you’re not a Christian AND a Republican, then you don’t have values. As everybody knows, only right wing Christians have values. Could you BE any more divisive, Mr. Hewett?
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