American Association of Persons with Disabilities

American Association of Persons with Disabilities National Disability Voter Registration Week 2017 – Organizing Call Friday, June 9, 2017 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Remote CART Captioning

Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) captioning is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. This transcript is being provided in rough-draft format.

www.captionfamily.com

>> Hello, everyone. This is Zach Baldwin with the American Association of People with Disabilities. I want to thank you all for joining today's call. We're right at 1:00 so I'm going to give it a few minutes for more folks to dial in today. [CART/Captions Standing By] >> Zach Baldwin: Hi, folks. This is Zach Baldwin with AAPD again. Thank you to those of you who have joined. We're going to give it another minute or two and then we will go ahead and get started. [CART/Captions Standing By] >> Zach Baldwin: Hi, folks. This is Zach Baldwin with AAPD here. Thank you all for joining today's call. I'm going to give it one more minute for a few more folks to dial in and then we will go ahead and get started. [CART/Captions Standing By] >> Conference recording started. >> Zach Baldwin: Hello, everyone. This is Zach Baldwin with the American Association of People with Disabilities. I want to thank you all for joining today's REV UP national organizing call. As you know, today we'll be talking about National Disability Voter Registration Week 2017. That week is coming up next month, July 17 through the 21st. For today's call we'll be talking a little bit about the REV UP campaign, our state coalition strategy. We'll review some general voter registration strategies to help you think about how you can be involved during National Disability Voter Registration Week, and then we'll hear from a few of our REV UP partners for an example of how they are organizing this year and some of the tips and strategies that they use. And then at the end of the call we will have some time for a question and answer period with us here at AAPD as well as our other guest speakers. Before I turn it over to Helena Berger to give an introduction of the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf campaign, I wanted to highlight a few of the items. If you are familiar with our REV UP web page at aapd.com/revup, you'll note there's resources and information available there, specifically on our web page for National Disability Voter Registration Week. A couple of things we want to highlight. We really want to collect information about all of the events happening across the country during this week as well as throughout the year. There's a link to submit information via an online form. Alternatively, if you already have a flyer or web page ready for the event, you can send that information to me. I'll take the information from 2 that and put it on our State Sources and Events page. Critically important this year and something our other speakers will touch on is the need to collect data. We really want to get specific numbers, the number of people you register during National Disability Voter Registration Week so that we can really demonstrate the power, the organizing power, of the disability community during National Disability Voter Registration Week. We're also, again, this year working to collect proclamations for the week from mayors, governors, city councils, state representatives, open to any level of state and local government just to officially declare the week of July 17 through the 21st as National Disability Voter Registration Week. It's a great way to reach out to your local and state elected officials to make them aware of the Disability Community in your area and what you are trying to do. And lastly, just to list off a few of the resources we have on our website, we've got free logos and graphics that you can use, download, modify. We have sample social media posts, sample proclamations and press release templates, a number of voter registration guides and tools, a list of state events and resources, and a lot of other information and resources relating to voter registration engagement. All of you who registered will get an email after this call with the call recording, the CART transcript, and the link to some of the other resources that I just mentioned. So with that, I'd like to turn it over to Helena Berger, President and CEO of AAPD. >> Helena Berger: Thanks, Zach. Again, I'd like to welcome everybody. We had almost 150 people register for this call, which we're really excited about. When we started this initiative, the REV UP campaign -- and I think most people know that AAPD, we are the national organizer and coordinator for REV UP -- our goal all along was to ensure that this initiative did not end on November 8 last year. We're seeing just a ton of energy and enthusiasm around the initiative as we are well into 2017. I think what is happening on the state level and certainly here in Washington with our administration and Congress I think is really providing the impetus for our community to really understand how important this initiative is and why it's important to build the political power and influence of our community, which is really the goal of the REV UP campaign. Just a little history. We started this initiative about a year and a half ago. It was actually the genesis of REV UP -- the credit has to go to our partners in Texas, Bob and his cohorts. They actually came up with the REV UP which is Register! Educate! Vote! Use your Power! And during conversations with Bob, they said, hey, we'd love for this to go national and we'd love for AAPD to help lead the way. So we owe a lot to our friends in Texas. And they've got a really strong REV UP model that you may be hearing from today. So, again, we've been doing this for about a year and a half. Last year was our first annual National Disability Voter Registration Week. We had about 20, 25 states last year participate in the REV UP campaign at various levels. I guess I should say that our strongest REV UP partners, our campaigns, have been in Texas, in New Jersey and Massachusetts. And I just want to thank them for being really strong partners in helping us create and build this initiative. So as we're looking at 2017 and 2018, as I said, our goal all along was to keep this initiative up and running and to really build state disability voting coalitions. That's currently really what we are focused on. We believe, especially in this environment, that the power lies in the states. It reminds me of something the late House speaker Tip O'Neill said where he said all politics is local, meaning a politician's success is directly tied to the person's ability to 3 understand and influence the issues of their constituents. And that still holds really true today. I think we're seeing so much of the power going back to the states, which is really why it's critical and why we're focusing on developing and growing strong state disability voting coalitions. We currently have about 17 states that either have an established coalition or are in progress. And I'll just quickly, if you bear with me, I want to give a shout-out to those states. Folks on the phone, if you're from the state, you can connect with folks or if you're on the call and you didn't hear your state, then, you know, we'd love to work with you to develop a coalition. So the current 17 states right now that, again, either have an established or are in the process of establishing a coalition is Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington. And in addition to building the coalitions, we're also working closely with Virginia and New Jersey both of those states are having gubernatorial elections this year. So, again, that's another effort and focus of our current activities. Again, you know, I think I just really want to stress that we need to build state infrastructure. I think if we want to really have an impact on what's happening in terms of creating, you know, good policy, then the voting coalitions are important. It's important, obviously, to get as many people with disabilities registered and to the polls. And I also want to stress something that Zach said. Collecting the data as we do our National Disability Voter Registration Week is really critical. We're going to try to make it as easy as possible for folks with a fairly simple form to complete, but, you know, politicians want to know, ok, how many people with disabilities are in my district and how many are voting. And that's really what counts. So as you are developing your National Disability Voter Registration Week, we really stress and underscore that you start collecting the data and send it to us. Because ultimately, you know, that will make the difference. And you'll hear more today from Ted Jackson about that and, again, how critical that is. So I think on that note, I'm going to turn it back to Zach. Again, I just want to thank everybody not just for today's participation but for all the great work that you've been doing over the last year and a half and for our partners that have really been working with us every step of the way to make this an impactful campaign. So thanks. >> Zach Baldwin: Great. Thank you, Helena. Now, before we get into some general voter registration strategies, I wanted to highlight one of the many partnerships that we have this year with other national organizations and networks, and that is our partnership with EveryLibrary. They are an association that works to advocate for policies and legislation to advance and benefit public libraries. We have John Chrastka with us, the Executive Director of EveryLibrary. John, if you're on, I'd like to give you a few minutes to talk about the partnership and the network of public libraries across the country that have agreed to participate in National Disability Voter Registration Week and to partner with other disability organizations. John, if you're on, please go ahead. >> John Chrastka: Zach, thanks so very much. Helena, thank you, too, for the opportunity to present and chat with your folks today. EveryLibrary, as Zach said, is focused on public libraries. We also work with school library communities and academic library communities. We're a Political Action Committee for libraries. We work on local library ballot initiatives in addition to the policy framework and 4 legislative framework that Zach mentioned. With the local library campaigns that we work on, it's often a bond to build a new building, a levy, millage, tax or some other tax measure to run the library. Voter registration is a key component of what we work on with each of the communities that we help take their library to the ballot. The opportunity to take a project that's focused on not just the disability community but the issue that address disability populations has been very warmly received and embraced by the library community since we became a partner with AAPD back in February. Since then, we have launched a dedicated page on our action.everylibrary.org site. In the take action tab, action.everylibrary.org/ndvrw, where we're asking libraries around the country to do -- to self-identify as being a supporter or participant or promoter of National Disability Voter Registration Week and to be open to educating their public, not just the outreach about registration but educating their public about the issues affecting the disability community. The three tiers are intended as a first-year partnership with AAPD to help libraries that don't necessarily have voter registrars on staff, though many do, or have necessarily an infrastructure of partnership that are existing, though many do. The lowest level, if you will, of support is to promote it, promote registration and to promote the issue that are affecting the disability community to the public. That promotion is a big deal to get a couple hundred libraries around the country align towards educating their public, that's a nice tier of goals. For libraries that have registrars of voters or are interested in bringing on registrar services as part of their core civic responsibility, to do something during the week, to do a targeted and specific activity during the week in support of National Disability Voter Registration Week's goals, that's a nice and useful opportunity. But the one we're trying to get to with as many as we can first year and to build capacity as this project advances in 2018, 2019, 2020, is to see how many partnerships we can develop across communities with the library as either a core convener or a complement to that coalition. A great example of this is our colleagues in Spokane, Washington. The Spokane City Library -- there's a city library and county library in Spokane. I'm talking about the city here. They have taken this National Disability Voter Registration Week opportunity and run with it. Spokane -- they've been a coordinating hub for the city of Spokane, for one, two, three, four, five -- about a half a dozen organizations that they are doing outreach with. It starts with the League of Women Voters, Centers for Justice, local NAACP chapter, the Greater Spokane Progress, Access for All, the Center for Independent Living, Disability Rights Washington, Human Rights Commission, ARC of Spokane and the DSHS. That convening of folks is not unique to National Disability Voter Registration Week. They talk to each other. They talk to each other occasionally. But now they are coming together specifically for the July 17 to the 21st activities. What they are doing is not only to raise awareness of the event but to provide outreach to get more citizens registered to vote and educating folks who are not in the disability community but the barriers that there are of voting and informing people of their options on how to vote. They are doing something every day. And it begins with the mayor's press briefing on Monday, July 18, and it moves out through location-based resources -- I'm sorry, resource tabling from the library and location-based registration services. We're very 5 excited to have things at scale like this taking place as well as small libraries that are just getting their toe dipped in the water. I want to introduce every single library that's part of this project in 2017 to the state network or to other partners around the country. If you don't know these librarians and don't know this library community, I want to make sure we make connections. I've had a great time this past week introducing Molly from Disability Texas to a whole bunch of folks around the State of Texas in libraries who are hopefully going to take this to the next level. But even if they don't take it to the full level that the city of Spokane has and they start this new relationship looking ahead to 2018, it's been an exciting time. So any library in your life that wants to be part of this, while they can self-identify in a couple of different ways, I ask that we try and direct them to the action.everylibrary.org/ndvrw site so that we can help make connections through EveryLibrary's extensive network and this partnership we have with AAPD. I'm looking forward to meeting as many of you as I can as this progresses and to collaborating after the 2017 year on 2018 at scale. Zach, thank you very much. I hope I hit the points. If I missed anything, please let me know. And I'd love to touch on it. >> Zach Baldwin: Great. Thank you so much, John. I appreciate that summary of our partnership and of ways that folks can engage in their local libraries around National Disability Voter Registration Week. >> John Chrastka: If I may add, I'm sorry, real quick, I forgot to mention, I was remiss that you and I, me and, Zach, have developed a toolkit and a training guide specifically for library communities that's available to every single library when they register on on the action.everylibrary.org site. It's been nice to put that together for this specific audience. Thanks again. >> Zach Baldwin: Great. Thanks for adding that, John. Now I'd like to turn it over to Ted Jackson to give us kind of an overview of some general voter registration strategies that folks should consider and keep in mind as they're preparing to engage in this week. Ted? Ted, are you with us? >> Ted Jackson: Yes. Can you hear me? >> Zach Baldwin: Yes. >> Ted Jackson: Great. Thank you very much. I'm really excited to be on today's call and to hear that there are 150 people signed up and folks from all over the country. Because I think that what we are doing here today is really a testament to our community becoming very organized in the electoral process. We're in an off year. There are some elections happening at the local level and some special elections for some federal offices and governors but it's not a big election year. But the fact that we're meeting today, getting organized today, a whole year in advance from a major election year, is really, really important. And it shows that our community is very serious about building what I call electoral power. And that is the power to be able to deliver votes for a particular candidate or for a particular cause that gets recognized by our elected officials and ultimately placed into their decision making on creating policy. So it's very exciting. As I start, I want to share just a quick little, very quick little, story as part of this presentation. In the last couple of weeks I've been working on another project with one of my other hats on, my LGBTQ hat, as one of the honorary national co-chairs of the Equality March. 6

And I've been doing press work and press interviews from the disability and LGBTQ perspective regarding the march and the accessibility for the march and that every single one, all the reporters have asked me: How are people with disabilities organizing to vote? How are they organizing to register to vote? What was the impact of the election on this community? So, we really made an impact last year and we have now gotten the attention of the media in terms of our electoral power. And here I am doing something else and I'm getting asked about our electoral power. So I think that's really cool and very exciting. So I want to go through a few things today regarding just, you know, a general voter registration strategy; you know, when you do everything or anything you really need to have a strategy that's very, very important. So the first thing is having your mind set on a goal of sustainability. From the very beginning you want to build something that is sustainable, that lives just beyond this summer or today but lives on to next year and the year after that. Really, when we think about the acronym REV UP, which is the name of this campaign, it's centered in sustainability because the R, E, V stand for register, educate and vote. And what we're here to talk about today is the R, register, but that registration allowed us then move on to the next step, which is educating people, and then that allows us to move on to the next step in turning those folks out to vote. And if we do our work right from the very beginning, we'll be more powerful in educating people and even more powerful in turning out vote. Obviously, you know, we don't want to necessarily, in terms of building electoral power, educate folks that aren't registered to vote, so we have to register them and then they have to turn out to vote. So keep that in mind that you're not just building a program that's for this summer, for this one week in July, but you're building the foundation for something you're going to pick up next year when you're doing voter education. And then to build upon that, you're going to pick up again when doing get out the vote work. You want to develop a plan. The first part of developing a good voter registration plan is actually getting a team together. Before I start mapping out if I'm going to do a voter registration project, before I start mapping out, you know, outreach locations and goals and all of that sort of stuff, I start to build a diversified team to make sure that we have intersectional representation on there, intersection of different and diverse disabilities, different communities that we can partner and coalition with; that way the team together will develop the plan. For a nonprofit organization, you know, that may be some of your coalition partners, may be some of your volunteers, your clients and consumers, and it may be some of your staff. It's always great when a nonprofit organization figures out a way that everyone can participate in the voter registration campaign, especially if you're doing some type of intake where you're required to do voter registration. And I'll talk in a minute here about how you can make that fun for the whole center. So developing a plan is important. You want to have -- again, start with the team. The next thing you want to move on to is setting your goals. And be realistic about your goals. I know it's great to say we're going to go out and register 5,000 people this week. Someday I think every center, every organization will get to that point where they can do 5,000 in a week, but you want to be realistic about your capacity because what's really important is that you're getting it right in your process. As you grow and build over the years, you will grow your capacity to more and more people participating, but if you have a really solid process down, that's something that you can share and that helps with the sustainability. So, in developing your process you want to make sure that you're doing volunteer 7 recruitment and you're spending a decent amount of time with that. You're including in there shift recruitment and follow-up phone calls to confirm volunteers to come for their shifts. I actually like to map that out in the calendar and make sure that you've got a real clear calendar of those hours it takes to go into something. A lot of times when you see people running around, scurrying around, trying to put on an event, it's because they put the event on their calendar but they didn't necessarily put the hours it would take to make phone calls and remind volunteers to come, the hours that it would take to actually, you know, print up documents or print up flyers to go down to the voter registrar's office or some states have what's called the Board of Elections and pick your voter registration cards, go by Staples, pick up pens. Put all of that into your calendar and make sure that you're planning for enough prep time to get it done. Also, make sure that you've got a good decent training on voter registration. This gets a little bit tricky because every state has different laws on voter registration. One of the great things, though, that every state does have is every county has a registrar or a Board of Elections that you can call upon or organizations like the one we just heard from who might be able to come and do your training for you. What I suggest is even though you might be sending outreach teams out into the field to register people to vote or have people at your office, that you actually host a volunteer training that everyone's required to go through. Even though someone might be doing a shift next Thursday, that they come in on Monday for that volunteer training. And you can probably connect with the election officials in your county to have them come down and do that training for you that way it saves you the time of learning your information yourself, doing the research, and doing a Train the Trainer in developing it into a training. So you know, take advantage of the resources that are there. Part of the plan also, you want to build an outreach plan. You want to figure out where you're going to go. This is really important for working with coalition partners. And I go back to that build the team first. Your coalition partners are going to have really good idea of places to go but also they may be able to do part of the voter registration in their offices, and you can send the volunteer to sit in their waiting room, out in front to register people to vote, all sorts of ideas. You want to think about places where people with disabilities go. A great group out in California, Community Resources for Independent Living, it's a Center for Independent Living in Hayward, California, always had a robust voter registration program. They had a couple of really, really great systems change advocates there, Dolores Tejada, Jessica Lehman, and they took teams and went out to bus stops because people with disabilities in the bay area are on public transportation. They went to BART stations. They went to grocery stores in neighborhoods where they knew a lot of people with disabilities lived. And then they went to other disability events. That's really key, too. In July -- obviously every July is the anniversary of the ADA, and so someplace, somewhere in your community is probably having a little getting to the, a little party, something to celebrate the ADA. So you want to be looking out for those possible events. But the other thing, too, that is important is we're building a voting bloc. And when you build a voting bloc, you're not just building a voting bloc of people with disabilities but you're also building that voting bloc of the family, friends, neighbors, caregivers, personal attendants, co-workers of people with disabilities, and other folks that care about our issues. So being summer, you might want to go to fairs, festivals, farmers markets, anywhere you can talk to 8 people about disability issues. And if they agree with us, you know, sign them up, which we'll talk about in a second, but also register them to vote. Obviously anyone who wants to register to vote, you have to register them to vote. You have to be non-partisan and give that opportunity to anyone. But really think outside of the box in terms of the places you can go and the people that you can register. So the other piece of this is a pledge gathering. I'm a big, big fan of pledge gatherings. And that is that you have some sort of pledge or some sort of sign-up sheet. Maybe at the top it says something like, you know, I'll make the pledge to consider disability issues when I cast my vote or when I make my decisions on who I'm supporting. We here, myself or folks at AAPD or other places can give some technical assistance and help on how to write that sentence so it fits in the model of a (c)3 organization, a nonprofit and doesn't cross any political lines for you. But what you're doing with that is you're building a list of people. Because once you have that voter registration card filled out, you're required to turn that card in. You want to have a living memory of who you interacted with and you want to be building a list so that you can start to build a relationship of trust with those voters through email blasts, through postcards, through inviting them down to your center for a fundraiser, or to an event. And once that relationship with trust is built over time, then they have time to look to you as the organization where they're going to get their information about disability issues. And that gets into the E, the education part of REV UP. And then ultimately when they make that decision to vote, those are the people that you're going to want to remind and to push out to vote, and that's the V in REV UP. So it all ties back, eventually to the sustainability piece. So really have some good outreach ideas. I'm happy to help. The other thing is have fun with it. I know it's a lot of work. That's why we pick a week so we can kind of gear up to it, ramp up to it and all of that sort of stuff. You should really have fun with it. I used to run a contest at my old job in California, California Foundation for Independent Living Centers with all of the 28 Independent Living Centers. They all did these voter registration drives. We would do buy a $200 lunch for the staff and volunteers at the center that did the most -- registered the most voters. There's all sorts of things you can do. Even the centers themselves had prizes or awards they handed out, maybe at their fundraiser they handed out a voter registration award to the volunteer who registered the most voters. You want to make sure that we're recognizing and appreciating the volunteers and the people that participate in this activity. So make it fun. Again, be accountable to the plan itself that you write. So that goes back to calendaring things, you know, calendaring that planning time, understanding that if you're doing five outreaches in a week and they are two-hour shifts each, it's not just 10 hours but it's 20 hours out of your calendar because you're going to have to do material production, training, all of that sort of stuff. So you know, that's really all I have in a nutshell. I am available for technical assistance at any time on voter registration. My email, [email protected], Twitter@tedjacksonca. And with that, I finished wrapping up a little bit early, Zach, in case there were any questions. So does anyone have any questions? >> Zach Baldwin: Sure. So if folks have a question, you can press star and then 5, and then I'll be able to unmute your line so you can ask a question. Again, star 5 if you have a question. We also have some time built in at the end of the call. 9

>> Ted Jackson: Ok. >> Zach Baldwin: So right now or hold it, we can take those then. Just something that Ted mentioned about the pledge. If you, again, go to our voting site on our -- voting page, on our website, we do have a sample REV UP pledge form that you can use. So, again, we're trying to make this as easy for folks as possible but I just wanted to let folks know that's available as well. >> Ted Jackson: A couple of things on tracking, too, that I wanted to point out. I said, you know, make sure that you have realistic goals. You know, figure out what your volunteer resources are, how many people that a single person can register per hour and calculate your number of hours doing this type of work. Include your intake and all of that as folks come into your nonprofit organization and calculate your goals. But you might want to also measure your progress as you go along. I really encourage folks to put the old, you know, bar or thermometer meter. You can write it on big paper, stick it in the lobby of your center, your nonprofit organization, and every day you fill it in. If you don't like the image of a thermometer, it's a little medical modelish, you can create something. You can create a circle and start to fill in pieces of the pie, so that every day you come in and see, oh, first day, I'm 20% there, next day 30%. So that you're measuring your progress. I've always found with anything, whether it's recruitment for volunteers, voter registration, phone calls, when we have a visual that's big and that everyone can see and that we keep up on updating it, I've always found that we exceeded our goals. Because people have a little bit of an internal competitive streak. I think we have that all as human beings. And it's good to use that friendly competition once in a while to make sure that you're on track with your goals. And it gets everyone involved and engaged and it makes it fun. And every single time I've done that, I've always exceeded my goals. >> Zach Baldwin: Great. Thank you. >> Ted Jackson: I'll hand it back to you, Zach. Thank you very much. Really appreciate being on the call today. >> Zach Baldwin: Yeah. Thank you for joining us, Ted. So, again, folks, we'll have some final time for questions at the end of the call but now I'd like to transition over and have some of our state REV UP partners come on and share their experiences and what they are planning to do for National Disability Voter Registration Week this year. So first off I'd like to turn it over to Dawn Howard with REV UP Colorado. Dawn is a community organizer and advocate with the Colorado Cross Disability Coalition. Dawn, if you're on the line, please go ahead. >> Dawn Howard: Hello, everyone. I'm delighted to be part of this call. Here in Colorado we will build on the work that we did last summer using REV UP materials. We really want to focus on building coalitions with other disability-related organizations. We will be working with our local Independent Living Center here in Denver. One of our goals is to promote them being your polling place. We also will be having voter registration at their ADA Celebration. It's during the week of the registration week. We will partner with another organization that has a laundry truck and go out with them and get people registered to vote as they use the mobile laundry truck. Those are some ideas that we are going to pursue. The Denver Independent Living Center has a mobile unit, and we will see if we can go with that mobile outreach unit to do 10 further registration as well. We want to partner with League of Women Voters and other coalitions that are interested in voting engagement as well. I've reached out to the co-leader of the Community Choice transition meeting to get the idea of helping people that are being transitioned from nursing homes to community living, to make sure that those individuals are registered to vote as well. So those are several things that we are working on as well as coming up with a strong coalition of people across the state who will do similar activities in their locations. >> Zach Baldwin: Fantastic, Dawn. Thank you so much for sharing your plans for this year. Again, if folks have questions, we'll have time for that towards the end of the call. So now I'd like to turn it over to our partners with REV UP Texas. We have Bob Kafka, Molly Broadway, and Chamane Barrow on the line with us. I'll let the three of you take it away. >> Bob Kafka: Can you hear me, Zach? >> Zach Baldwin: Yes, I can. >> Bob Kafka: Ok. And Molly and Chamane, please chime in. We had a planning meeting yesterday. We had about 20 participants. And the general plan is to build on what we did last year. We're going to be having on the 17th a press event at our Capitol where we will also have a registrar training, bringing together all of the partners and to try to bring attention. And it's timely because our legislature is going into special session on the next day. So it's going to be quite timely. We're also planning to get a proclamation and develop some resolutions that people can use at the local level, like Colorado we're partnering with the Independent Living, Disability Rights Texas has been a great partner, state coalition, and other disability groups across the state are coming together. The key is two-fold; one, to get information out here in Austin as broad as possible but also to encourage the local groups to also get city resolutions at their city council, county level as well as any state commitments to do that. Molly is doing quite a bit of outreach. I'll let her talk about the League of Women Voters and what she's doing with the EveryLibrary. Molly, are you on? >> Molly Broadway: Yeah. Can you all hear me? >> Zach Baldwin: Yes, we can. >> Molly Broadway: Ok, good. I pushed all the right buttons. Good. Yeah, so, just in conjunction with everything that Bob had talked about, the goal for all of this is just to make sure that not just at the state capital here in Austin but throughout the state we're able to conduct activities during this week of July 17. Part of that, I'm hoping, is going to involve the libraries throughout the State of Texas that have registered with EveryLibrary and connecting them with people in that area to do various voter registration drives at the library and connecting everybody with the library and the local advocates and also the League of Women Voters, kind of get out there and do some stuff. So I'm in the process of getting ahold of everybody and seeing what we can coordinate and taking it from there. I think we're always open to ideas, and more so just trying to get everybody in that particular community or their particular town to figure out what works best for them and how to make that come into fruition. >> Bob Kafka: And Chamane, are you on to talk about some of the Independent Living? >> Chamane Barrow: Yes. And it's what Bob and Molly said, also, I'm going to work with Molly on the EveryLibrary to get involved in that. I talked to Centers staff yesterday and we are going 11 to work on getting the deputy trainer done at all three centers. And then going out last year we actually went to a couple of local malls and signed people up, registered them to vote, that way. And then we met with several city officials and city councils, got several proclamations and we also had consumers go to the polling places and practice voting. So we had a lot of different initiatives. And we're looking at expanding on that and, again, working with Molly. We hadn't done the EveryLibrary thing before so collaborating. >> Bob Kafka: And like California, some of the other states, we have like 254 counties and so each has a county registrar. So we're trying to get information so people know how to touch base locally in terms of really reiterating what Helena said about all politics are local. Before we close, I just really want to emphasize -- and this came mostly through Molly and Disability Rights Texas, but it's really been helpful -- our involvement with the League of Women Voters. They actually reached out to us when we started REV UP Texas. And at yesterday's meeting we had both the local and the state League of Women Voters, who are very, very enthused and are going to be working with us, as is the Travis County clerk who is going to do the registrar training. But the bottom line is what we've learned is that if we can bring in all the various different groups and bring them together, because so many groups have already done voter registration, voter education and outreach. We're not trying to duplicate it. We're just trying to coordinate and get the message about the week. But then like Ted said, this is really going to be a long-term issue. And then the other thing, I believe Helena and Zach said this, is that what is real clear is that the federal elections are obviously very important, but as we all know, the state and now even the local, how important it is and where the disability vote can be influential is really even at the local levels even more so. So that's why all the information that Ted gave is so critical to bring it down to local stuff. We're just initiating -- we've been around for a while but we didn't have a website. We would like input on it. It's www.revuptexas.org. It's simple. We just got it up. And any feedback from people would be appreciated. Thanks, Zach and Helena for hosting the call. >> Molly Broadway: Can I add one more thing, I'm sorry, to add upon what everybody's been talking about with partnerships? If there's anybody from The ARC on the phone call or people are looking about thinking about who they can partner with, The ARC is a really good resource, too. They've been really instrumental in helping with our REV UP events as well. So I just wanted to put that out there. >> Helena Berger: And if I can just follow up. I just happened to have lunch yesterday with somebody who works here in DC in their national office trying to figure out how our two organizations can work more closely together. We believe that there's real synergy around REV UP. So I think we're going to be working more closely with The ARC which will hopefully trickle down into the chapters. We think that's a great on-the-ground connection to make. >> Bob Kafka: And the other group that we're trying to outreach, we have a Governor's Committee and a person who works in our governor's staff which is quite conservative but they are outreaching for all the mayor's committees across the state. So that's another level -- you know, since the voter registration is non-partisan, that even in a very red state like Texas that we've had a lot of support in terms of voter, voter turnout and stuff like that. So you know, again, every state has different resources. But like Molly said, crossing all the various different disability groups can be very beneficial. 12

>> Zach Baldwin: Great. Thank you, Bob. And while we're on the note of talking about partnership, I just want to underscore some of the other networks and organizations that are working with REV UP that can be beneficial to you all organizing in your states and local communities. Of course, there's the whole network of Centers for Independent Living across the country, as well as the Protection & Advocacy Services in every state. We've also been talking to the National Association of Councils on Developmental Disability, and the DD Councils in every state. Some of them are already engaging with our REV UP campaign so we're working to see how we can involve more of them. There's also a whole network of non-disability organizations. So the folks in Texas mentioned the League of Women Voters. They've connected to several of our state campaigns. We're also working on trying to engage with them on the national level. There's a few other national groups like Rock the Vote and Nonprofit VOTE who just provide general voter registration and engagement resources and information. So there are a few other areas folks can look at with trying to identify partners. >> Helena Berger: And what we're also going to try to do -- I think everybody saw that once again this year both Senator Dole and Senator Harkins wrote a letters of support. We would like to get more of those letters of support from non-disability organizations and make this inclusive and even give our event more correct. So if people have strong contacts in some of the organizations that we mentioned or other organizations that are doing voting work that don't necessarily focus on the disability community, let us know. Because like I said, we want to make the breadth and scope of this as wide as possible. >> Zach Baldwin: Great. So, now, last but certainly not least, there are state examples. I'd like to turn it over to Sha Stephens, the Executive Director of the Arkansas State Independent Living Council and has been leading our REV UP Arkansas. Sha? >> Sha Stephens: Yes. Good afternoon. Can you hear me? >> Zach Baldwin: Yes, we can. >> Sha Stephens: Ok. Excuse me. I don't have much of a voice but I'm going to do my best to do this. I'm excited about everything that's happening in Arkansas. We are moving along. One of the things I'd like to mention before I get into what's the things that we have lined up, in March our legislators voted to move the school Board of Elections to either be in May or November for Election Days in the years when the primary or general elections are set. And what that's done, that's set a playing field for those that are promoting register, educated vote. So we're going to add that to one of the days that we are sponsoring during the National Disability Voter Registration Week as an educational component. So that's going to help when you're letting individuals know or us letting individuals, whether with a disability or not, with how important it is to be involved in your elections. In Arkansas, we are excited. Our proclamation is ordered. I will start off with the events that I know that are already set up. July 17, main event is for Independent living will kick off our week. They have an event there at their center. July 18, DRAC will also be having an event and be participating in voter registration all week as well as the other centers in Arkansas, sources and sales. They have not told me yet 13 their specific event but I know that all the centers will have -- be advocating and promoting the register educate and vote. July 19, our big event for the CIL that we are spearheading is a press conference. The lieutenant governor and the attorney general, as well as our governor but we know specifically the attorney general and the lieutenant governor have been invited as well as legislators. During that press conference we are going to have a member of the Secretary of State Office of Elections. There will be a demonstration on the accessible voting machines. I believe Disability Rights Arkansas, we have an advocacy coordinator, Mr. Dan Morris, who is being invited to promote, help us promote advocating for yourself when it comes to registering and voting. He will also provide a demonstration for those that may or may not know, as far as filling out when there's the paper ballots and actually filling out your voting registration card. And those are going to be the educational components for that press conference. We'll have the press conference but we'll also have a voting component. One thing in Arkansas, and what the CIL tries to do, we want to have something we can measure. So you guys mentioned the pledge form. We are going to utilize that in all of our events. The Center for Exceptional Families, our program in Arkansas, our PTI grant, I am actually on their board, their Executive Director, Shelby Knight, they are going to kick off an event June 20 and start promoting REV UP the vote. There will be actually some events going on in several counties. And we're calling it County Connections, during that week. But more importantly, kicking it off and helping us get the awareness out there. Some of our partners, one partner is Partners for Inclusive Communities, Community Advisory Council that I'm a member as a parent. They are a partner/financial sponsor to help us with the educational materials and different things that we're doing that week. Disability Rights Arkansas, Rock our Vote that Zach mentioned, the millennials, they are a partner, as well as the NAACP and the Urban League. The NAACP has a state conference coming up in September. So what we're doing to make those individuals aware, the information is going out about their state conference and we anticipate putting a flyer in to tell about National Disability Voter Registration Week and REV UP Arkansas. We have started our talks, as in Arkansas, as a voting coalition. Our next part of our planning meeting is on June 14. So I am very excited and eager. And I appreciate being selected to lead this effort in Arkansas. We have one faith-based in its presence. They will have coffee and conversation on the 16th, which is the Sunday, just to hand out information and let individuals know what we're doing in Arkansas. We're not only just revving up Arkansas, we're going to REV UP for Medicaid, transportation, housing. And, I believe my good friend and colleague Ted Jackson mentioned how you get your volunteers. Well, I was one of the speakers for a volunteer workshop at NCIL last year. So I've used and utilized that material to even build my volunteers here at the CIL. So we have a few summer school students that are our regular volunteers that are going to help us not only with the efforts at the capital but also at [Indiscernible] Smith. So Zach, that's our lineup. As we evolve, I'll make sure we get our schedules out there. But we are very excited about what is going on in Arkansas. >> Zach Baldwin: Fantastic. Thank you so much, Sha. 14

So, before we move to the question and answer period, I just want to let folks know if you do have a question, you can press 5 and then star on your dial pad. And that will give me a heads up that you have a question and we can unmute your line. So while folks are getting into the queue for questions, again, I want to thank all of our speakers for joining today's call and sharing their information and knowledge with us. To underscore some of the points I mentioned at the beginning of today's call, we do have an online form to collect information about any events or activities that you're organizing during National Disability Voter Registration Week or at any time throughout the year. Again, if you already have a flyer or web page set up, just email that information to me directly. I also want to underscore the importance, again, of collecting data during National Disability Voter Registration Week. Even if you only are able to host one event and you register five people, I still want to get that information because every drop in the bucket counts. It all adds up over time. So please, please count the number of folks that you register. We have an online form to submit your information, trying to make it easy for everyone. All of this will be sent out in an email after today's call. >> Helena Berger: And to the point that Zach just made about data, AAPD is doing this initiative right now basically unfunded. So we are working to try to bring in some funds to grow this initiative and actually share some of that funding with our partners on a state level. As everybody knows, when you go after funding with foundations, they want to see impact, want to see results. So that's another reason why it's really critical to please make that part of your registration efforts to complete the form and send us the information. Because it's really going to help us as we continue trying to fundraise for this effort and, like I say, build it and grow it and help our partners. So we really would appreciate that. >> Zach Baldwin: Great. And, again, if you do have a question, press 5 and then star. I've got our first question here from Edmund in Massachusetts. Edmund, please go ahead. >> Yeah, hi. This is Ed from Massachusetts. This is very exciting. I'm glad this is continuing. I used to run for 20 years Mass Advocate Standing Strong here in the state until recently. And my question for folks was -- which I really didn't hear and I might have missed something. Are folks in other states partnering also with your state People First organization, affiliated with self-advocates becoming empowered? Because we have a huge group of persons with intellectual and developmental challenges that we've got really empowered up here. And I know in other New England states, and New York. And I was just wondering if any of the other states that had been on -- I didn't hear anyone mention People First of Colorado or Arkansas. Or some of the others. So I was just wondering has anybody reached out to them because they would be [Inaudible]. >> [Multi-voice overlap] >> Bob Kafka: In Texas they call themselves Texas Advocates. And we've been working with them, the Mental Health Association, and NAMIs as well as The ARC, Family Members and the DD Council. So we've tried to make its across-disability and to build on. And one other thing I just wanted -- when you go to the resources, if you look at the logos that they came up with, it's REV UP on all the issues, REV UP Medicaid, REV UP Accessible Housing, REV UP Transportation, so that we are all -- they are all votes that people have interest in. The resources on the website are amazingly helpful in terms of bringing people who may be interested in one issue area. So it brings us all together. >> Mm-hmm. Thank you. 15

>> Sha Stephens: And -- can you hear me? >> Zach Baldwin: Yup. Go ahead. >> Sha Stephens: Great. Yes, you heard me say Darren Morris is the Arkansas advocacy coordinator and a member of NAMI. He's actually doing the empowerment for self-advocacy. And that's why I mentioned Darren. DD Council is also a partner -- forgive me -- at People First, one of the things we're even doing is promoting that. In fact, there is a preliminary event happening at one of our providers, Pathfinder, and we're actually promoting them to self-advocate for themselves, making sure people are using People First language. So, yes, that's big in Arkansas. Forgive me, those that know I'll be getting married in 29 days, so you know that my memory is not too good. [Laughter] We're excited. Thank you for asking that. Because our providers, on Monday my assistant will send out -- we have a special guest list. It's all the developmental disability providers in Arkansas. They are like our special guests at our events. And out of those groups, those individuals get to be a volunteer as well. So another thing to add to the volunteers, we go a step further to help people with disabilities, developmental disabilities, whatever it is, to learn how to volunteer. And we do that at the CIL. And that helps us with outcomes and measures as well. I also mentioned, Zach -- I forgot to mention, Arkansas has something to build on. Last year when we were contacted seven, eight days before this event started, the first National Disability Voter Registration Week, we actually ended up doing five counties and 11 events. So before we did that, we didn't have anything to go against. So we have something, you know, as far as what we can set a goal for this year. So we're excited about that. I believe this is going to be great for everybody. Thank you. >> [Multi-voice overlap] >> Helena Berger: I really appreciate that question. It just reminded me and Zach that we'll also reach out to [Indiscernible] and see how we can get them engaged and become a partner in this. So I really appreciate that question. Thank you. >> Sha Stephens: This is Sha. Are there any other states that are engaging NAACP? Because if you guys recall, Arkansas hosted Commissioner Aaron Bishop in August. The CIL in Arkansas was the first center to have Urban League, NAACP and Rock the Vote in the same room. And Commissioner Bishop charged others we all fight for civil rights. I charge the other states, reach out to your local NAACP because they also, you know, promote educating on voting. And I think that would behoove us to do that for people with disabilities. >> Great. Thank you. >> Zach Baldwin: Thanks. Go ahead. Is that Molly? >> Molly Broadway: Yeah, I'm sorry. Sha, I wanted to let you know, in Texas I tried to reach out to the NAACP and the Urban League, at least in the Austin area, and to invite them to some events but unfortunately there were conflict, scheduling conflict. But they've been on our radar. So we're tapped into them as well. I think that's a great resource to tap into. >> Sha Stephens: Yes. And we're tapping into the League of Women Voters as well. I actually followed some of your advice. I appreciate that. Thank you, Molly. >> Molly Broadway: Yeah. And also, something else to throw out there is like [Indiscernible] or -- which may or may not be as big in other states but it's pretty big here in Texas. Or other 16

Latino or Hispanic-based groups are always good as well. >> Sha Stephens: Thanks. Yes. >> Zach Baldwin: Great. Thank you, Bob, Molly, Sha, and, again, Ed for your question. Again, if folks have questions, press 5 and then star on your key pad to get into the queue. The next question that we have is from Kent in Virginia. Please go ahead. [No Audible Response] Kent, are you with us? >> I'm sorry? >> Zach Baldwin: Is that you, Kent? >> Yeah. Sorry. Thank you. >> Zach Baldwin: Go ahead. >> I recall that -- I think we got a presentation from Dr. Krauss from Rutgers University. >> Zach Baldwin: Kreuz. >> Ok. I was thinking in terms of partnership in funding that it might be good to touch base with them and him to let them know what we're doing and see if they were interested in partnering with us. I know that foundation and support often comes when it's university connected. So that might be a connection that we could pursue. And he may be interested in some of our data collection or be able to help us with data collection. >> Helena Berger: Yes, thanks, Kent. We have talked about that and I appreciate you mentioning that. We're going to add that to the to do list and follow up. So thanks. >> Sure. >> Zach Baldwin: Great. Thank you, Kent. Next question we have is from Michelle Bishop. Please go ahead. >> Hi. Can you hear me? >> Zach Baldwin: Yes, we can. >> Hi. It's Michelle Bishop from NDRN, National Disability Rights Network. Going back to something that just came up a couple of minutes ago, I wanted to toss out there, especially for you, Helena, SABE, Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered is a partner on. They subcontract with us on a grant we have for that work. So I would be more than happy to connect you to their leadership and be part of that conversation with you all. >> Helena Berger: Yes, thank you, Michelle. That would be great. We can talk offline. Again we really appreciate that. >> Absolutely. >> Zach Baldwin: Great. Thanks, Michelle. A question from some of our folks utilizing CART, and I'll open this to any of our speakers. The question is, Are current voter registration lists public or available in all communities? Ted, I think you may have the answer. I'll defer over to you but open it for anyone else who wants to answer this question. >> Ted Jackson: Can you phrase that again, please? Thank you. >> Zach Baldwin: Yeah. The question -- someone wanted to know if voter registration lists are public or available in local or state communities. >> Ted Jackson: Yes, they are. So it's a matter of public record. It's something that is available. Different states treat them differently as far as how you access them. So in some states, or some counties, I should say, go down and get a list of registered voters pretty easily. 17

In some places you have to pay for them. I know in Ohio, for example, there's a fairly small fee per county. You know, it's like $10 or something like that. You can get the list of voters. In California, if you get it from the county, it's pretty expensive. It's like a few hundred dollars per county. However, for $35 you can get it from the Secretary of State's Office but you have to state what your reason for getting the list is. Usually in all situations you have to sign some type of affidavit or something that you're not using this for any purposes other than for contacting voters about an election. There are laws around how you use the voter listings. They do make you sign documents, all of that sort of stuff. You know, testing under penalty of perjury or felony or whatever that you're not going to use this as a contact list for anything else; it's simply to either send, you know, direct mail to, to call voters to remind them to vote, things like that. But it has to be used for election-specific civic engagement. The voter lists aren't sold, you know, for other purposes. They are allowed to be used for civic engagement, so like a polling firm can use it. Oftentimes market strategies or the market research that's done, for example, on the healthcare benefits exchanges, under Obamacare, are done from voter lists. So the healthcare benefits exchanges do do polling and research on how they are going to market to folks. They use a voter list for that. So there are other applicable things to it but they tend to be more civic engagement oriented but not just anyone can grab a list and use it for any purpose. >> Bob Kafka: And two things came up at yesterday's meeting about lists and accessibility, ideas about trying to get your disabled tag, your motor vehicle list, some states it's public information. Some states it's not. And it's the same thing with paratransit lists. Some states have had, some local cities have had, success asking for those lists as public information requests. But it's very individual. But it's worth a shot, just a letter of public information asking for some of that information. And then the other thing that came up at yesterday's meeting here in Texas was about the existing law and to try to put more emphasis on all our state agencies actually doing what's required by law in terms of offering voter registration. And the suggestion yesterday at our meeting was to try to intensify our sort of pushing state agencies like our Voc Rehab was just transferred to our Texas Workforce Commission and there were some issues about that. So that was three things that came up about lists and getting people registered. >> Zach Baldwin: Great. Thank you so much, Ted and Bob. I also want to mention there's an organization called State Voices that works to help organizations get access to the voter file in their state. They are not active in all 50 states but they are in a good number of them, I think anywhere between 25 to 30 of them. And depending on where they're active, you can get potentially free access to the voter file or access for a nominal fee, a few hundred dollars. They also have a system set up for a slightly larger fee you can get access to the voter file in a state where the organization doesn't already have one of their state partners. And that's something that we've talked to State Voices at the national level and we're trying to figure out how all of this works to integrate it into the REV UP campaign. We still have a little bit of time left on today's call. So, again, if there are any questions, please press 5 and then star and you'll get into the queue so I can unmute your line. All right. Looks like we have a question from Kit. Your last name is a little bit long so I'm not going to try to butcher it but please go ahead. 18

>> Actually, this is Attorney Shunette Hunter from Disability rights Wisconsin in Madison. And I just wanted to comment that it was great to have all of the speakers but to have Ted talk about really planning. I've worked here a year and a half, and part of my work -- I'm a staff attorney but part of my work is to work with the Help America Vote Act. And it has been somewhat demoralizing sometimes to just advertise a free voter PowerPoint training where we give out some CDs with voter testimonials from the disability community, give out, you know, guides on how to register, absentee voting, the voter ID law which is really big here in Wisconsin. But then you plan this for college, you know, a technical college or a community center and then nobody comes. So it's been -- what's been more effective is going to kind of captive audiences to say, you know, a class that helps people with different abilities get jobs or to the sheltered workshops where you may have 90 people hear about all of the information and how to vote. It's very effective that way. And also maybe to have people sign up. You advertise and nobody signs up and then you might cancel that venue. But to make a lot of flyers, packets, drive 45 minutes and you don't get a person that can be challenging. So I just think if we're talking about really planning and capacity and those types of things. >> Zach Baldwin: Great. Thank you. All great points. Would you mind saying your first name again? >> It is Shunette. >> Zach Baldwin: Great, thank you so much, Shunette. I appreciate you joining today's call and sharing your thoughts. All right. Again, folks, if you do have a question, press 5 and then star and we'll get you into the queue. All right. I'm not seeing any questions come through, which is all right. You can always follow-up with us via email if you have any questions that -- oh, two just popped up. One second here. I have a caller from the 585 area code. >> Hi, yes. This is Marie Hickey. I'm actually in Long Island. I am developing transition services, youth services, for the Suffolk Independent Living organization. But prior to this I had been working with the New York Disability Vote Network. And I just wanted to let people know you can go on nydvn.org to check it out. We've had it for a few years now. It's a state-wide, online organization in a sense in that anyone can join, people with disabilities, allies, whomever. And what we do is we keep people updated on what's going on in the legislation in the state and federally that has anything to do with any kind of disability rights or programs or any of that. And we have kind of a report card that we do yearly on the representatives as to how they've voted on disability issues so that our voters can have, you know, can be informed voters, specifically on issues that have to do with us. So we developed it off of a grant. But I just wanted to let other states know that this kind of program exists and that maybe they would want to check in and try to do something like that themselves for the in between the voting type of voter information, voter education. That's it. >> Zach Baldwin: Thank you for sharing. The New York Disability Vote Network. [Inaudible] >> Yes. So that's nydvn.org for anybody that wants to check it out. >> Zach Baldwin: Fantastic. Thank you. >> Thank you. And thank you for all the work you're doing. Bye. >> Zach Baldwin: All right. Got another question here from a caller in the 732 area code. >> Yeah. That's us. Can you hear us? 19

>> Zach Baldwin: Yes. Go ahead. >> [Indiscernible] >> It's Chris Miller. He said hi, Zach, from Disability Rights New Jersey. We're on the EveryLibrary website. Is there a way to get the list of libraries that have signed up by state? >> John Chrastka: This is John Chrastka. I would love to provide that for you but I'm going to need to do that individually. I need to pull some stuff together from the back end of the database. If Zach can connect us with each other, I'd appreciate that. Otherwise you can use the contact form on our EveryLibrary website and we'll be able to turn that around in the next, you know, 24 hours or so for you. >> Thank you. >> Ok. Great. Thank you. >> Zach Baldwin: Thanks for joining today's call. Good to hear from you. I'll connect you with John so you can get a list of the libraries. >> Bob Kafka: I want to promote something that AAPD has been doing for people that don't have a REV UP that are on the call, but I want to get people in your state -- if you contact Zach and Helena, they've been very good about having conference calls within a state to try to answer any specific state -- I know their time is valuable but they've been really good in many states pulling together groups. So if you're on the call from a state that doesn't have a formal and you want to pull together, you know, try to hook up with Zach and Helena because we have found that's been very, very helpful in our outreach to other places to do that. So I just want to give a pat on the back for all the work that AAPD does. And once again, the information on the website is invaluable in terms of the resources. Sometimes it takes a little searching but the information is there. You don't have to recreate the wheel. And like I think Helena or Zach said, they want you to use it and spread it out. You don't need permission. Just do it. >> Helena Berger: Thanks, Bob. I appreciate that. Certainly your partnership and, like I said, we wouldn't be able to do this without the partners on the ground. Yeah, just to underscore what Bob just said, we are happy to facilitate those calls. So if you're currently thinking about developing a REV UP campaign in your state, again, we'd be happy to help organize that and to facilitate that. As I've been listening to this call, House Leader Nancy Pelosi has a saying that says, you know, organize don't agonize. I know a lot of people use the saying don't mourn, organize. There's a lot to agonize about I think right now without getting too political both on the state and federal level. So I think this is the time really for us to really get organized, to really register people, to really have that electoral power that Ted was talking about and really making a difference, to really show that the disability vote counts, which is, again, a really big part of this campaign. I know I'm preaching to the choir but, again, we really appreciate what you're doing. But more importantly I think if not 2017, if not 2018, I would really believe if we keep this up, if we continue the momentum and continue growing this, we will see an impact from these efforts. I just, again, want to thank everybody for their engagement and taking their time today. We may still have a question or two. I don't know. No? Ok. I guess it's good that I'm doing this sort of wrap-up. Again, we had great participation today, great engagement. If you need us, call us, email us. We just want to thank everybody. Zach, any last words? 20

>> Zach Baldwin: Just to echo your thanks to all the speakers and participants. If you did join today's call and didn't register through the on line form, please go ahead and do that so we get your email address and can follow up with you and everyone else with the recording and CART transcripts of today's call as well as all the other resources that were mentioned today. So, thank you again, everyone, for joining. We will be in touch again soon. >> Helena Berger: Bye-bye.