VOTER ENGAGEMENT

In 2022, our network reached 31,881 voters to successfully win on Questions 1 and 4 at the ballot box, the culmination of 15 and 20 years of organizing respectively. Question 1, known as the Fair Share Amendment - and informally as the Millionaire’s Tax - will raise a projected $2 Billion annually by taxing 4% on incomes over $1 Million to fund critical transformations in both the education and transportation systems of the Commonwealth.  By engaging voters in conversation before they headed to the polls, we began a conversation about where they wanted revenue from the Amendment tax to be spent. We will continue this effort of deep listening and connect elected leaders directly to their constituents’ priorities for how the money is to be spent in a given region. Voter engagement of this nature ultimately creates a narrative change with the power to impact elected leaders and the potential to build a beloved economy  Question 4 was on the ballot to keep in place a law that was passed in Summer 2022 with the support of law enforcement known as the Work and Family Mobility Act, but was then challenged by those with anti-immigrant sentiment.  Thankfully, it passed successfully when challenged, so now all qualified state residents can apply for a standard driver’s license, regardless of immigrant status. Massachusetts is the 18th state in the U.S. to pass this law, meaning that now all families in the Commonwealth should be able to get to work, bring children to school, and make it to medical appointments.

In coordination with the Raise Up MA coalition and in partnership with Massachusetts Voter Table as founders of the Delivering On Equity Collective, the following MCAN affiliates were engaged in this work.  We encourage you to reach out directly to them if you are in their region or the MCAN central office if you live elsewhere: Essex County Community Organization, United Interfaith Action (Fall River, New Bedford); Pioneer Valley Project (Springfield); Brockton Interfaith Community; Worcester Interfaith; Prophetic Resistance Boston; I Have A Future (Boston).