Gone viral: Brooklyn man’s website helps people contact Electoral College before Trump vote
‘People are actually writing to electors,’ says Cobble Hill professor Jeff Strabone
The Electoral College vote to determine who will become president is set to take place on Dec. 19. Now, a Brooklyn man has created a website to make writing letters to the electors easy — and his project has gone viral.
Jeff Strabone, co-founder of New Brooklyn Theatre, professor of English and past president of the Cobble Hill Association, said the site, directelection.org, helps people send their own signed postal letters to the members of the Electoral College from states won by Donald Trump to ask them, respectfully, not to vote for Trump.
“The electors have already received a ton of email and news attention, but a personal letter means a lot more. A single good old-fashioned, voter-to-voter personal letter is probably worth a thousand emails,” Strabone said.
It took Strabone weeks to gather the contact information for all the electors. Activists had some. Others he got from the states themselves. His work has inspired people across the country.