Dear Friend, Democracy Watch is working with its partner charitable organization, the Democracy Education Network, on two initiatives to help get non-voters voting in the Canadian federal election. Rick Mercer, Mary Walsh, David Suzuki, the band MAGIC! and many other well-known Canadians are supporting these initiatives – you can see their videos at: http://www.voteparty.ca/celebrity_videos Most young voters age 18-34 didn’t vote in the last election, and overall only 61% of eligible voters voted. Past voter turnout efforts by Elections Canada and others haven’t worked mainly because they only reach people who already vote. We know we will also likely only reach voters – which is why: • http://VoteParty.ca makes it easy for voters to Make a Vote Date to take a non-voter to vote with them; • http://VotePromise.ca makes it easy for any voter to Make the Vote Promise to help a non-voter vote. Please help these initiatives reach voters, and non-voters, across Canada by: 1. Make a tax-deductible charitable donation to the Vote Party/Vote Promise Fund at: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/democracy-education-network/; 2. Make a Vote Date with a non-voter at: http://www.voteparty.ca/join/ or 3. Make the Vote Promise to help a non-voter vote at: http://www.votepromise.ca/join On the VoteParty.ca and VotePromise.ca websites you will also see links you can easily use to spread the word on Facebook, Twitter and Google. Please share this email with every voter you know across Canada to help get non-voters voting in this election! And please come to the national online Vote Party on Oct. 19th -- see details at: http://www.voteparty.ca/vote_parties Thank you for your support, Duff, Tyler, Josephine, Brad and everyone at Democracy Watch