Tell your Mayor and Supervisor: COUNT EVERY VOTE and stand by San Franciscans standing up for democracy!
Mayor London Breed
SF Office Number: (415) 554-6141
Call Script
“Hi my name is [name], and I’m a constituent living in [neighborhood].
I ask you to stand with your constituents in support of our shared democratic ideals. We ask you to publicly express your support for and join us in making the nationwide, nonpartisan demand that election officials in every state count every vote.
I ask you to:
Immediately condemn and demand effective action against any effort to intimidate voters or election officials on election day;
Speak out against any county or state certifying results before their count is complete;
Publicly oppose, and do everything in your power to stop, any effort to halt vote counts before every vote is counted.
I further ask you to join us in educating the public that the true results take time, because they require every vote to be counted; that the true results will not be known on Election Night; and that election officials are bound by law and duty to count every eligible voter’s vote and communicate the true result of the election only after every vote is counted.
I ask you to adopt a resolution expressing your support for San Franciscans who demand that all votes be counted and that the democratic process be conducted without interference from the Trump administration.
Background
Voting ends Nov. 3, but don’t expect results that night. The results will only be known after every vote is counted, and that will take days or weeks.
Early projections by the media are often wrong, as we saw all over the country in 2018. Counting every vote—particularly when there’s a surge in voting, as there is this year—takes time. So ignore the “projected winners” of “Election Night”; wait for officials to #CountEveryVote, because only then can we know the true results.
Trump and his Republican cronies might try to intimidate Democratic voters on election day. They might claim victory based on the early count of in-person ballots, ignoring or rejecting the votes cast by mail. We need to be ready to respond, if they prematurely declare victory or try to halt the counting of mail-in ballots.
If Trump tries to subvert the results of the election, we will mobilize a nonviolent resistance to defend our democracy and protect the results. We need you to be part of our mobilization.
A “Protect the Results” rally has been called for November 4th at 3pm at Embarcadero Plaza. Our goal is to inform voters about our Count Every Vote message and to inform the public how to mobilize in case Trump/Republicans try to undermine the results.
Join here: https://www.mobilize.us/ptr/event/351412/