Volunteer
There's a job for you in this campaign.
Knock doors. Carry petitions. Put up a sign. Help a neighbor request a mail ballot. Make calls from your kitchen table. Host Bob for a conversation with your block.
You don't need campaign experience. Pick something below and somebody will show you how.
Here's something useful you can do
What can I do?
Every one of these is a real job somebody is doing this week. Most of them take an hour.
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Carry a petition sheet
An afternoon. The most valuable hour in the campaign right now.
Mostly talking to neighbors on your own block. The campaign trains you first, because the paperwork rules are strict.
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Help a neighbor request a mail ballot
Fifteen minutes, sitting at somebody's kitchen table.
In a low-turnout April election this is the single highest-value thing a volunteer does. Tick the box in the form below.
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Put up a yard sign
Five minutes, then it works without you.
A sign on a Rockford lawn starts a conversation with everyone who walks past it. Ask for one in the form below and somebody brings it to you.
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Knock your own block
A couple of hours, close to home.
You get turf near your own house, a short script, and somebody to call if a question comes up you can't answer.
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Make calls from your kitchen table
An hour, sitting down, at any time of day.
Good if you'd rather not walk, or the weather is bad. Also how ballot reminders get made in March.
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Host, drive, translate, or do list work
Whatever fits the time you actually have.
Host Bob and ten neighbors. Drive somebody to early voting. Interpret in Spanish or another language. Enter data at a computer.
This campaign has no party organization behind it. Everything that happens here, a neighbor does — so you get a specific job, somebody shows you how to do it, and the campaign respects your time.
Sign up
Three fields, then tick whatever you're willing to do. A campaign volunteer follows up with a specific job and a date to do it.
Would rather just call?
815-669-9604. Someone answers, and if nobody does, leave a message with your street name and you will get a call back.