If the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus) threatens to impact your plans for voting centers, it's very important to communicate this fully, both internally and externally.
- Notify chair@democratsabroad.org, gpp@democratsabroad.org and comms@democratsabroad.org, as well as your RVC if you believe city-wide quarantines or other actions, or if there are other significant health threats that may force your voting center to be canceled.
- The team will discuss options with you.
- If it is determined that any voting center must be canceled, we MUST notify campaigns, party leadership, the State Department, and members.
- The Global Chair will notify the DNC, campaigns, and state departments with this information.
- You should email all members with your voting center information.
- You should email all media to provide an update to them as well.
*For both media and members, the priority message is: While in-person voting may not be possible, Americans in (location) can still vote remotely from anywhere! + link to democratsabroad.org/primary.
Ex: We're closing our voting center location on Tuesday for the safety of our members and the community, but the good news is that Democrats Abroad in China can still vote in the global presidential primary, by downloading their ballot at democratsabroad.org/primary and they can even return it via email. - Cancel your events on social media and the website, and post a statement explaining the situation. Example here.
- You should update your social media feeds with this information, and share these links with comms@democratsabroad.org.
- If the locations where you were going to have voting centers are still going to be open, you could consider printing out a flyer about voting remotely that can be left at that location. If the locations are going to be closed, if it's possible to tape up a sign in the window, that would be good too.
- IF possible run social or other ads with the redirect to remote voting.