Organize Your Own Stroll!

Did you miss the September 22 stroll? Create your own stroll. It’s easy!

Find a group passionate about an issue that will be decided in Richmond. There are a lot of options like,

  • Climate change: States can take actions that mitigate climate change; Virginia Republicans are trying to repeal climate regulations in Virginia.
 
  • Privacy and reproductive rights: Republicans are trying to ban a person's right to choose in Virginia and interfere in your private life.
 
  • Civil rights and equality: Virginia is now a battleground for LGBTQIA+ equality.
 
  • Gun safety: The Virginia General Assembly make state rules around gun safety and prevention of gun violence. 
 
  • Medical cannabis (separate from industrial hemp): The Virginia General Assembly also plays a huge role in making medical cannabis available; without putting it under the control of big pharma.
 
  • Funding for public schools, including public universities, like JMU.
 
  • Funding for public transportation, as well as roads and bridges.
 
  • Making sure everyone has access to affordable broadband.
 
  • Living wage and labor rights.
 
  • Police and criminal legal system reform.

Give yourselves a name and design a logo. Register your name and logo here.

Choose when to stroll. Early voting dates and hours can be found here.

  • Residents living in the County must vote at 20 East Gay Street. 
  • Residents living in the city must vote at 409 South Main Street. 

Prepare your voters for the stroll. 

  • Encourage your voters to check their registration here. 
  • If necessary, change registration here.
  • Tell them where to meet and when.
  • Remind them to bring a valid ID.
  • After October 16, they can do same-day registration and cast a provisional ballot at the polling location.
  • Hand out stroll tokens.
  • Some rules in the polling place – no firearms, no clothing with candidate names, no candidate buttons, etc. Signs will need to be left outside the polling location and picked up after voting.

Optional: Tell the media about your stroll. 
Gather, march, and vote! Drop tokens in the box provided outside after voting. 

Reward yourselves with a visit to a downtown restaurant or entertainment venue.

Tell others you strolled! Post on social media. Challenge others to vote.

Watch the scoreboard on Fridays. The winning stroll will be announced on November 6. Find out which team brought the most people out to vote!


The last big stroll organized by the Harrisonburg Democratic Committee is October 28 at 10 a.m. – rally at Court Square.