The Power of One

Here we are: voting for the March Primary Election!!

Early voting is now going on for the March Primary Election. You can go to any voting site in the area to vote. But be quick, because early voting ends on Friday, 1 March 2024.

Here is the list and times of early voting centers in Bexar County:

www.bexar.org

Call to action…

CALL & EMAIL (and share with your contacts!) Judge Sakai and Commissioners Clay-Flores, Rodriguez, and Moody ASAP. 🗣️ Script: “I’m asking you to please co-sign the agenda item for Tuesday 2/20 that will reallocate the $900K ARPA money to Community Violence Intervention organizations so that we can implement comprehensive gun violence prevention strategies in Bexar County before this summer instead of giving that money to the public relations campaign that is being considered.” #gunviolenceawareness #gunviolenceprevention #communityorganization #gunviolenceintervention #gunviolenceinterventionprogram #bexarcounty #countycommissioner #gunviolencepreventionfunding #bigmamashouse #standupsa

Alert Rent Funding Support Limit time! - https://mailchi.mp/56ad23a078c6/support-the-vote-for-renters-rights-movement-6236239

SAVE THE DATE!!!!
Saturday February 24, 2024 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Second Baptist Community Center
3310 E. Commerce Street (Next door to Carver Library)

This is a FREE & Family Friendly Event

Do you want to Promote your Business, Organization or Event to the African American Community?

Investing in the San Antonio African American Book Festival is a great way to Market/ Promote your Business or Organization. Your investment in Promoting Black Literacy and Culture will speak volumes on how committed you are to serving your Community.

If you are interested, please visit our website by clicking on the link below:
https://saaabookfestival.mailchimpsites.com/sponsors

Important documents: for the Joint Constitutional Amendments, General, Special Charter, and Bond Election on Tuesday, 7 November 2023:

Bexar County Elections Department (Sample ballot) - https://www.bexar.org/DocumentCenter/View/4570/Generic-Sample-Ballot-PDF

Bexar County Elections Department (information for Cibolo/Schertz/Universal City ISD) - https://www.bexar.org/DocumentCenter/View/38771/Schertz-Cibolo-Universal-City-ISD-General-Election?bidId=

Texas Secretary of State’s office (explanatory statements for the Constitutional proposals) -https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/forms/2023-explanatory-statements-14-final.pdf

Texas House Research Organization (focus report on Constitutional proposals) -https://hro.house.texas.gov/pdf/focus/amend88.pdf

hro.house.texas.gov

Mr. Benjamin and Margaret met on Saturday, 16 September 2023 to iron out a schedule for Power of One to present information leading to the Joint Constitutional Amendments, General, Special Charter, and Bond Election on Tuesday, 7 November 2023. As you know, this election among other things, will have 14 proposals to be ratified for the Texas Constitution.

Mr. Benjamin is writing a column for the San Antonio Observer that will focus on a group of Constitutional proposals at each turn. We will host our Fall events at the Carver Branch Library, and we appreciate the support of Director Dr. DL Grant. Our fall events are as follows:

1 - Saturday, 14 October 2023, from 11am to 1pm: What’s on the Ballot (will be held in the Magazine room). Will focus on amendment proposals 4, 7, 8, 9.

2 - Saturday, 21 October 2023, from 11am to 1pm: What’s on the Ballot (will be held in the Magazine room). Will focus on amendment proposals 1-3, 5, 6.

3 - Saturday, 28 October 2023, from 11am to 1pm: What’s on the Ballot (will be held in the Media room). Will focus on amendment proposals 10-14.

4 - Saturday, 4 November 2023, from 11am to 1pm: What’s on the Ballot follow-up (will be held in the Magazine room). For this event, since we will have the previous three events that we can possibly do an evaluation and discuss turnout for early voting.



Election dates to remember:

· last day to register to vote in this election – Tuesday, 10 October 2023

· last day to apply for ballot by mail (received, not postmarked) – by 5pm on Friday, 27 October 2023

· early voting – Monday, 28 October 2023 to Friday, 3 November 2023

· day of election – Tuesday, 7 November 2023

Thank you members of BIVA (Black Independent Voters Association for hosting Power of One on Saturday, 26 August 2023. We look forward to working with you as we get ready for an active and crazy election season!

First up: the 2023 Constitutional Amendments and Uniform Election on Tuesday, 7 November 2023. The main attraction for this election are 14 proposals to be voted on for the Texas Constitution.

Power of One will be holding a strategy meeting on Saturday, 16 September 2023 (from 1:30pm to 3pm) to plan our Fall elections schedule that will continue to keep our community informed!!

Stay tuned!

There is so much going on right now… We hope that you have been able to check some of it out. Even though some of it seems far away, all of it is connected to your representation.

With that in mind, please stay tuned… Power of One will be meeting soon to prepare for the next election - the November election regarding proposals for the Texas Constitution.

If you have any suggestions on things that you would like for us to include in our voting education information, please let us know.

We will talk to you soon!!