This is a quick report-back from just the first three hours of Operation Voter Madness in Lexington - part of a non-stop 72-hour local voter registration effort, feeding into a 4-day statewide focus on registering voters leading up to the registration deadline.

First, we had a fantastic Singing For Democracy Gospel Fest at Shiloh Baptist Church - focusing registering voters and also our campaign to restore voting rights to former felons who have served their debt to society.  We had about 120 people from the community come out for great music and activism.  Most of the people who came out signed a postcard in support of voting rights for former felons and everyone at the event who had the right to vote pledged to vote in the General Election next month. 

We had our first TV news coverage of the weekend and used the opportunity to recruit volunteers for the remainder of our big weekend.

It was also a fantastic opportunity to partner with Operation Turnout, an effort to register and mobilize voters in African American churches in Lexington. 

Next, a big group of UK KFTC members set up a voter registration table in front of the W.T. Young Library on campus and sent out groups of canvassers across campus to register voters.

 

It's been a successful run so far, and we're just 5% of the way through our 72-hour voter registration marathon. 

Stay tuned to this blog for more updates throughout the weekend and if you have some extra time in Lexington or just about any other KFTC chapter community, please consider volunteering with us to be part of this energetic, key weekend.