How to get Georgia voters to turn out for the PSC election? Talk about their power bills. [View all]

While any election brings ads, events, door-knocking, and other efforts to remind people to get to the polls, this year campaign workers concerned with Georgia’s Public Service Commission races have another hurdle: education.

Climate and environment organizers gathered in Atlanta recently to strategize about how to mobilize voters ahead of November’s election for two seats on the Georgia PSC. Dubbed “Watts at Stake,” the event brought together organizers, community leaders, and influencers to hear about the importance of the somewhat obscure state agency — a message the speakers view as critical this election cycle.

“If you ask most people, they don’t know what the PSC is,” Russell Armstrong with Black Futures Lab, a group focused on leveraging Black electoral power, told Grist.

But, Armstrong and others said, voters care about what the PSC does, once they understand it.





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