17 AMAC Action launched a national year-long campaign to encourage AMAC members to become more involved in 2022’s primary and midterm elections by serving as poll watchers and election workers. This effort began in January with recognition of National Poll Worker Recruitment Day and carried through to the midterm elections in November and the Georgia runoff election in December. Over 12,000 AMAC members visited poll watcher/election worker recruiting websites to learn about working the polls in states throughout the country, particularly those states that were in critical need of workers including: Michigan, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, Nevada, Iowa, California, Kentucky, Ohio, New Jersey, Minnesota, Maine, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin, Virginia, and New Hampshire. Thanks to this effort by AMAC members, some of these states experienced over 90 percent worker coverage with some Georgia precincts noting a 100 percent capacity for workers during their runoff election.
AMAC Action was one of the sponsors for a series of statewide Election Integrity Summits held in Georgia, Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Michigan, North Carolina, New Mexico, and Wisconsin during 2022. The summits served to educate and activate Americans to become more involved in the election process. Topics for the summits included: forming state and local election integrity task forces, protecting vulnerable voters, recruiting and training election workers and poll watchers, learning about citizen oversight of voting software and systems, and understanding absentee voting. AMAC members enthusiastically participated in these events and usually comprised between one-third to 50 percent of the attendees at each summit.
ADVOCACY ANNUAL REPORT
AMAC CEO Rebecca Weber was invited to testify before Congress at a Senate Special Committee on Aging field hearing held in The Villages, Florida in November. Committee member Senator Rick Scott (FL) invited Ms. Weber to testify on behalf of AMAC members regarding how Biden administration policies impact seniors. Ms. Weber’s testimony included addressing the looming insolvency of Social Security and AMAC’s plan to stabilize the benefit, the effect the Inflation Reduction Act will have on American life expectancy, and the consequences of inflation on seniors’ savings and fixed incomes among other concerns. In sum, CEO Weber declared that: “The previous two years have shown true ineptitude on behalf of the Biden administration in dealing with the needs of seniors. The failure to protect the senior safety net, the inability to protect the long-term integrity of the Social Security program, the hopeless attempts to slow the rising costs of healthcare, the refusal to safeguard seniors’ voting rights, and the continued failure to protect our veterans are proof that the Biden administration has failed America. It is not hyperbole to say the damage done to seniors’ longevity, prosperity, and legacy by the Biden administration is the worst in the last 50 years.”
AMAC CEO Rebecca Weber testifies before the US Congress at a Senate Special Committee on Aging field hearing
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