Tell your Representatives: Count Every Vote!
Note: only one of the following two Congresswomen represents you. To find out which one, click here.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi
SF Office: (415) 556-4862
DC Office: (202) 225-4965
Email Contact: https://pelosi.house.gov/contact-me/email-me
Call the SF office first, but try the DC office if you can’t get through. If you get voicemail, hang up and try a few more times to talk to a real person. Don’t give up! Short direct messages are most effective. Hate the phone? Resistbot is your friend.
Rep. Jackie Speier
San Mateo Office: (650) 342-0300
DC Office: (202) 225-3531
Email Contact: https://speier.house.gov/email-jackie
Keep calling if you don’t get through. Voicemails are logged daily into a central report across offices. Hate the phone? Resistbot is your friend.
Note: Due to shelter-in-place orders during the Covid-19 emergency, it may be more effective to use email or Resistbot to contact the MoC’s office. It is important to use your own words in emails to elected officials, but feel free to use our sample script below as a guide.
Call Script
My name is __________. I am a constituent, and my zip code is _______. I am a member of Indivisible SF.
I am calling to ask my Representative to please propose a "Sense of the House" resolution on the topic of extending deadlines for mail ballots. This resolution should urge states to enact temporary, pandemic-emergency-related extended deadlines for the post office to receive and process mail ballots so as to ensure that all votes are counted. While the resolution has no legal force, it will support those who are advocating for such legislation at the state level.
I expect my Representative to do everything in her power to ensure every vote counts, provide political support at the state level, and raise public awareness to protect our elections.
Background
We are continuing to monitor ways in which Trump and the Republicans could try to rig and steal elections. Postmaster General DeJoy can use the "postmarked by" deadline to disqualify an unknown number of mail ballots simply by refusing to authorize post office overtime on election day. So ballots might be received by, or turned in to the post office on, election day but not run through the machine that stamps the postmark until the next day. States are already extending the “postmarked by” date for their elections, in part to prevent this, and our Representatives should support them.