A Unique Strategy
The Right Question Project Voter Engagement Strategy for Election Day and Beyond does something quite unusual. We teach essential self-advocacy and democratic skills to potential voters in low-income communities around the country.
Our non-partisan strategy is helping citizens learn to:
- Focus on key decisions that affect them
- Ask good questions about those decisions
- Expect and require accountable decision-making in all their encounters with public agencies and officials
These are skills they can use immediately, both to help themselves and to participate more effectively as citizens in a democracy. They are useful skills on the first Tuesday of November, as well as on the first Wednesday of November and all the days that follow.
Three Key Advantages to the RQP Strategy
- Citizens in low-income communities can use the skills immediately to participate more effectively in decisions made in their frequent encounters with their children’s school, the welfare office, the housing authority and the Medicaid-funded health service.
- As they begin to focus on decisions and ask questions, they discover previously unnoticed connections between their lives and the decisions elected official make.
- They see, for the first time, the value of voting and feel more confident about their skills and ability to vote. They motivate themselves to vote. And that makes all the difference.
Imagine how much better our democracy would be if more citizens could focus sharply on important decisions and ask good questions.
Imagine a democracy with a stronger demand for accountable decision-making.
Read the story of Maria and Jean, and how their participation in The Right Question Project changed their attitude towards voting.