Romancing the Vote, coming to save a democracy near you July 1st - 5th. (We run an auction to raise money for voting access, because voter suppression is BAD.) Run by Courtney Milan & Kit Rocha email: romancingrunoff @ gmail
Before we disappear for the night, a few links!
US Citizens can donate at: auction.romancingthevote.com
International folks at: international.romancingthevote.com
You can view the aftermath of the carnage and marvel at the victories & betrayals here: www.32auctions.com/romancingthe...
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It is not even 9pm here in Alabama and I am absolutely going to bed. 😂
See y'all in 12 hours.
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A fun number for you before I cartwheel away to bed:
1,129 of you won a total of 3,273 items between you!
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We have sent out our first round of emails! Please check your spam folders/weird gmail filters/under the bed for it!
It may take a bit for our server to deliver all of them, but if you don't have one by tomorrow morning reach out to us!
(Please don't panic before that!)
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We would be emailing you within the next few days (we have to confirm with all of the donors first) but I can already tell you I'm pretty sure the Bridgerton stuff was all one-of-a-kind!
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We will be sending you your winner's information and contact details and you can reach out to coordinate!
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nice dot gif
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I think in 2022 out if $188,000 raised we were only short about $600 in the end
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“10 for the first 5 days, 0 for the last five minutes”
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At this point, the Official Amount Raised shifts from the number listed on the auction to the number listed on our fundraising page. We’ll keep you updated!
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yes!
Citizens: donate.romancingthevote.com
International: international.romancingthevote.com
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yes!
Citizens: donate.romancingthevote.com
International: international.romancingthevote.com
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Also I am truly, truly sorry that the 32auctions crash happened. We did what we could to prevent it but some things are beyond our control.
I ask that you be patient with us about that. We are absolutely doing our best.
(And these are not our servers!)
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Bree says: we also have some very high value items where another will be offered to the runner-ups if they match the highest bid. Last year we pulled in $20k on that alone.
This year we're MUCH more organized about it. 💗
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All I know as Official Keeper of the Act Blue page is that I’m not exactly sure how close I will come to the seven figure mark.
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The thing about one of these auctions is that we neeever quite know how much we are actually going to raise.
I don’t mean because people won’t pay: some people don’t, but it’s a much smaller percentage than you think.
I mean because people round up. Some of them, a lot.
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(also I might know what you are talking about and because I'm going to be doing this on vellum and can print twice, I will make that offer to you. 💗)
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I have it on good authority that 32auctions crashing is the only reason a $6k bid didn't get entered.
...so the reasonable conclusion is that whoever put in that $5801 one might have paid off Curt from 32auctions.
👀
(kidding! lol)
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Alright, crafters of #RomancingTheVote, drop links to your shops in the replies! Let’s support our amazing donors & keep that auction joy alive (especially if we missed items *shakes hand at sky*)
@romancingthevote.bsky.social
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I will say, we're confirming with folks now and on at least a chunk of auctions, we will hopefully be able to offer the runner up a chance to match the winning bid and also get the item! (on things that can be duplicated)
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Unfortunately it ends if someone doesn't vote within X seconds and the servers going down ended it. 😆
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Anyone who offered to extend a second item to the runner-up if they matched the winning bid--you will also be getting emails, with an easy way you can opt-in for each item you said "yes" to!
The process will be painless, we promise!
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Okay, it appears that the site is kind of getting back on its feet, but we're going to try to get the sales data out of it now! Once we do, we will be emailing y'all ASAP so you can start donating!
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sounds like an O'Kane party, tbh
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We sure did.
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Yes! Don't panic, and just don't keep going to the website. We will get it sorted out, we promise!
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Our GOOD, you mean.
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I think we crashed the servers again. LOL
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We appear to have broken @32auctions again. Our bad.
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We just passed the auction total for 2022, and now the EXTENDED BIDDING starts!!!!!!!
www.youtube.com/watc...
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