2024 Election - Volunteer Opportunities
This election season, you can help protect democracy in Michigan together with Voters Not Politicians.
Volunteer opportunities will include canvasses (door knocking), tabling, and advocating while walking around. Choose the opportunity that works best for you!
Instructions: Click on the link and sign up, additional details will be provided upon sign up. If you have any questions about these events please direct them to the organizer listed in the Mobilize event.
Statewide
- Early Voting Period - Election Day (October 26 - November 5): Nonpartisan Election Poll Challenger (Multiple Locations)
- Election Day (November 5): Priority Absent Voter Counting Board Challenger
- Volunteers are needed in Flint, Lansing, East Lansing, Ann Arbor, and Warren.
- November 6 - November 19: Board of County Canvasser Observer (League of Women Voters)
New to volunteering? No problem! Our organizers will contact you before the event to make sure you have all the information and materials you need to get started. We can also connect you with an experienced volunteer before your shift!
About the Campaigns
- County Boards of Canvassers Monitors: The League of Women Voters is looking for volunteers to observe their county’s Board of Canvasser meetings to ensure that each county’s election results are certified. Each county has a Board of Canvassers that will meet the Thursday after the election to view and certify the county’s election results, and we’ll need all hands on deck to ensure each county’s results are certified without delay.
- My City Votes: My City Votes is a comprehensive Get Out the Vote (GOTV) education campaign aimed at increasing voter turnout among low-propensity voters from historically disenfranchised communities. Through partnerships with local city officials, MCV aims to give voters the information and encouragement they need to make their voice heard in every election.
- Nonpartisan Poll Challenger: Nonpartisan Poll Challengers serve as voter advocates inside polling places and Early Vote Center. A nonpartisan poll challenger’s only priority is protecting the rights of the individual voter – not the party or candidates on the ballot by raising an official "challenge" with the election workers if the challenger believes that a poll worker or another individual is violating Michigan’s election law.
- Michigan Supreme Court: The Michigan Supreme Court has the highest legal authority in the state, and its decisions directly affect our voting rights, civil rights, and more. The only way to protect our current pro-voter majority on the Supreme Court is to get out and talk to voters so that they know why they need to vote in this down-ballot race and who will protect their voting rights.
- Pro-Democracy Legislators: In 2022, Michigan voters elected a pro-voter majority in the state legislature for the first time in decades. But we are one seat away from losing our pro-voter majority in the State House this election. We are reaching out to voters in a few key districts to let them know they have the power to protect our pro-voter majority and what’s at stake if we fail.