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Step 6: After the Vote

Step 6: After the Vote

If your resolution passes:

  1. Alert your local media with EJUSA’s model press release. After you send out the release, call some key local news outlets to make sure they got it.
  2. Send a copy of the resolution to your state legislators, governor, and members of Congress with a cover letter from your group urging them to support a moratorium on executions. You can use our model cover letter to legislators as a guide.
  3. Celebrate with your membership! Send a message to your supporters, thanking them for their work and encouraging them to contact their legislators. See our model member letter.
  4. Send a copy of the resolution to EJUSA so we can add your group to the National Tally of Endorsers.

If your resolution does not pass:

Don't get discouraged! Introducing it has surely educated some people in the group, and you have probably made new allies. Consult with them about your next steps. Consider ways in which you can do some ongoing education before introducing a resolution again in the future.

Success story: 

Sometimes a resolution that does not pass can actually lead to bigger things. In 2004, the national League of Women Voters debated passing a moratorium resolution, but it was voted down. In response, state and local Leagues of Women Voters across the country passed resolutions as a way to generate support. The national League then followed suit and passed a resolution. The new resolution is even stronger than it would have been if they passed it originally, because all that local action leading up to the vote helped generate internal momentum and excitement for working on the issue. Now many of the local Leagues are getting involved with state campaigns!

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