Vote Early Rally Gathers at Alameda Park on Saturday, With a March to the City Hall Ballot Drop Box
The No Kings: Vote Early event is scheduled from noon to 2 p.m. on Saturday at Alameda Park. Organizers describe it as a nonpartisan push to get ballots cast before the Nov. 3 election.
Indivisible Santa Barbara is turning its latest No Kings rally into a call for early voting, hoping Saturday's turnout will encourage people beyond the crowd to cast ballots before the November 3 election, the Santa Barbara Independent reported. The No Kings: Vote Early event is scheduled from noon to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 17, at Alameda Park, 1400 Santa Barbara Street.
A short rally begins at noon, and the march leaves at 12:30 p.m., headed for De La Guerra Plaza, according to the Independent. The national Indivisible event page says the rally at Alameda Park is followed by a march down Anacapa Street to De La Guerra Plaza and a Party to the Polls at the ballot drop box at Santa Barbara City Hall.
Organizers describe the event as nonpartisan. No elected officials will give speeches, Ian Paige, with the steering committee for Indivisible Santa Barbara, wrote in an email, according to the Independent. While the rallies have become known for their signs, participants are asked to leave at home any candidate, political party or ballot measure signs, the Independent reported.
“We know the people who are aware of, and who will attend, the rally are already high propensity voters,” Paige said, in the Independent report. “We hope the publicity and turnout for the rally will inspire others to do the easy thing, just fill out the ballot, and drop it in the mail or a ballot drop box early, and not wait.”
Indivisible Santa Barbara's own action page gives the same route: gather promptly at noon at Alameda Park, march down Anacapa Street, drop completed ballots in the drop box in front of City Hall, and re-gather at De La Guerra Plaza. The group urges voters who have already submitted a ballot to wear their “I Voted” sticker to the event.
The Santa Barbara gathering is one of the Oct. 17 No Kings: Vote Early events listed across California. The Desert Sun listing shows Santa Barbara at 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at Alameda Park, and USA Today lists Santa Barbara among its Southern California locations for the day. Indivisible says the Oct. 17 events are nonpartisan and designed to increase participation from all eligible voters, with a commitment to nonviolent action.
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