Election Day! 

Get Out The Vote Phone Banks

Today, Election Day Nov. 3:
2pm–4pm, 4pm–6pm and 6pm–8pm

GOTV Phone Banks: Click Here to Sign Up

How do we help voters?
We call them on the phone.

You can too — let us show you how!

(OK, but I hate phone banking. I don't know how. I'd like to help, but I'm pretty nervous about it…)

We hear you. You're not the first or the only one to feel that way — so the friendly folks at Cambridge for Biden/Harris start each phone bank with a training session for newcomers. Here's the whole scoop:

Phone bank details:

• After you sign up, you will get a confirmation email and then another on the day of the phone bank with a link to a Zoom training session run by Cambridge for Biden volunteers. This email will provide important info about the phone bank calls that you can review before the session. If you are already trained you can participate in the intro, skip the training, and go make calls immediately.

• We use the national Biden campaign’s ThruTalk Dialer to call voters identified by the Biden campaign in crucial battleground states. You will need a phone (cell or landline) and a computer to participate but your personal phone number will not be displayed during the calling. Chrome or Firefox browser please — Safari and Internet Explorer aren't supported.

GOTV in New Hampshire
Going Old School!
(but Covid safe)

Here's your chance to do some old fashioned Get Out The Vote door knocking in New Hampshire.

Maura Pensak of the Cambridge for Biden/Harris team is organizing this fun and effective effort to reach voters we haven’t been able to contact by phone or text. We will wear masks and keep our distance to be covid-safe.

We will hit the streets in NH for two-hour shifts — total time commitment is about four hours including travel time to and from Cambridge.

On Tuesday - ELECTION DAY - we will knock doors to Get Out The Vote.
Two-hour shifts begin at 10 AM and continue at noon, 2, 4 and 6 PM.  

To sign up, drop us a line at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and put NH GOTV in the subject line. Maura will be in touch with details (although if you haven't touched base with her already, no guarantees now that election day is here).

Use Drop Boxes To Return Your Mail-In Ballots

If you have a mail-in ballot but haven't returned it yet, don't put it in the mail if you can help it — the Postal Service can't guarantee it will arrive in time. Instead, use one of the six official ballot drop box locations in Cambridge:

• City Hall - Near the back door of the building located at 795 Massachusetts Avenue
• Morse School - Near the front entrance of the building located at 40 Granite Street
• Cambridge Police Headquarters - Left-side of the front of the building located at 125 6th Street*
  *Please be advised due to sidewalk construction the drop box located at the Police Headquarters has been moved from the right-side of the front entrance to the left-side of the front entrance
• Maria L. Baldwin School - Right-side of the Oxford Street entrance of the building located at 28 Sacramento Street
• O’Neill Library - Adjacent to the entrance stairs of the building located at 70 Rindge Avenue
• Coffon Building - Right-side of the front of the building located at 51 Inman Street

The drop boxes will be open from 7am—8pm today, Election Day — the boxes will close when the polls close at 8pm.

If you are unable to get to a drop box for whatever reason and can't vote in person, put your ballot in the mail today anyway — ballots postmarked today will be counted if they are received by the Election Commission on or before Fri. Nov. 6th.

If you mailed your ballot, you can check to be sure it was received and accepted at TrackMyBallotMA.com. If it hasn't been received by election day or was rejected, you can still vote in person on Tuesday! 

If you're voting in person today, check Cambridge's Voting in the 2020 Elections page to find your polling location — some locations have been moved.

Vote in person or use a drop box — no matter how you do it, vote vote vote!

Many thanks to the Cambridge for Biden/Harris Coordinating team for all their hard work — and special thanks to Sharon Britton and family who put out emails for the Cambridge for Biden/Harris team (from which we steal freely for this website).

Captain: Nancy Alach
NH Lit Drops: Maura Pensak
Phone banks: Elizabeth Baldwin, Sara Masucci, Marc McGovern
Postcard/letter writing: Helen Jackson
Social media: Pamela Thilo
Tech support: Bob Mallon and John Patrick
Texting for Biden: Bob Mallon
Volunteer coordination and Communication: Sharon Britton, Rose Hanig, Johanna Schulman

Michelle Obama's Closing Argument

A Quick Morning Meeting
to Help Tenants
Facing Eviction

Sunday October 25, 2020 at 7:00pm

As you probably know, the eviction moratorium in Massachusetts is set to expire on Saturday, Oct. 17th, and there is no indication that Governor Charlie Baker is willing to extend the moratorium even a single day. The Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Trial Court now says our state could see anywhere from 25,000 to as many as 200,000 evictions starting next week.

The Baker administration has announced plans for rental assistance funding, and claims to be "in the process of developing a path to provide legal representation" for tenants facing eviction. But while that path is being discussed, you can be sure that eviction proceedings will plow ahead without adequate legal representation for tenants facing eviction. Even the CDC's eviction moratorium will not stop the proceedings, although execution of final judgments will be delayed through the end of the year.

Our state representatives are fighting to extend the moratorium (shout out to Mike Connolly's recent efforts), and our own Sen. Sal DiDomenico has proposed Senate bill S.913, "An Act to Ensure Right to Counsel in Eviction Proceedings." The Cambridge Ward 3 committee has formally asked the Cambridge Democrats to consider a resolution supporting Sen. DiDomenico's bill before the end of October, and we will do so in a brief meeting Sunday morning, October 25th at 10am.

Sadly we have not turned the corner on COVID, so the meeting will be a Zoom videoconference that you can attend with your computer, tablet, smartphone, or even by calling in on your landline telephone if you're feeling old-school. Details of how to connect to the meeting have been sent to the CDCC email list, and the meeting will also be live-streamed on YouTube Live and Facebook Live if you'd like to watch without participating.

Where and When:

Sunday October 25th at 10:00am
Location is wherever you happen to be!

Agenda:

I. Approve minutes of previous meeting
II. Officer reports
III. Debate and vote on a resolution supporting S.913
IV. There will be no program
V. Announcements
VI. Adjourn

Forty-Two Days Left

The election is just six short weeks from today. In some places, voting has already begun!

First things first — today is National Voter Registration Day. Go to iwilllvote.com right now to register and make a plan to vote — and make sure your family and friends do the same.

This week, Democrats are honoring the memory and legacy of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg by fighting tooth and nail for the democracy she served. Won't you join the fight?

Virtual Phone Banks

• Tuesday evening 6:30pm–8:30pm
• Wednesday evening 6:30pm–8:30pm
• Thursday evening 6:30pm–8:30pm

The main focus of our fight this week is phone banking, which is the most effective way to reach voters this year — and we need you to help reach voters all across the country in battleground states. As you might imagine, phone banking is different during a pandemic. We meet in groups over Zoom while calling, so the camaraderie is virtual but almost as real as in the Cambridge Dems physical office of past elections. And you don't even have to leave your house!

Each virtual phone bank will begin with a training for those who are new or need a refresher — if you're an old(ish) hand you can skip it.

Many thanks to the Cambridge for Biden/Harris Campaign Captain Nancy Alach for all her work and for organizing these phonebanks! Click on the links above to sign up!
 

Postcard Writing and Texting

• Some volunteers have signed up to work on postcards to voters in Florida to ensure that they have all the information needed to vote by mail. If you'd like to help, please contact Helen Jackson by email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or phone 617-945-0675 to request a packet of postcards. Note that the deadline for mailing postcards to Florida voters is Oct. 7, so if you're interested don't delay.
• Many folks have asked about text banks (like phone banks but texting instead of voice calling) — stay tuned, plans are in the works on the national level and we'll be up and running soon.

Cambridge for Biden/Harris Facebook Page

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Great — let's get to work so we can win in November!