There must be 50 ways: Participating in democracy #30: Register voters

Helping others become voters is a serious contribution to democracy. In our online era, for any of the 50 states and any territory of the US, send those folks to vote.gov[1] and they can choose which state's rules and procedures to access. 

Back in the day, in the late 1950s through the mid-to-late 1960s, in some places in the US, for some people, merely registering to vote was dangerous--specifically for Black people in the US South. In the early 1960s, Black sharecroppers in rural Tennessee were frequently evicted en masse from where they had been living and earning a meager living, sometimes for decades, often setting up makeshift tent cities just to survive. Even that was an "improvement" over the previous decade, when registering to vote in that racist area was met at times by death, by lynching (Ballantyne, 2021).

Those who defer to the myth of the US military as guarantor of democracy frequently claim that our right to vote was only gained and protected by the military. When we consider the costly nonviolent struggle to merely register to vote we can see it's far more complex than that. 

Registering to vote and helping others to do so in the age of a few safe online clicks is what we owe the ancestors who fought for this right, including those who literally sacrificed their lives to racist mobs in the US South for merely showing up at the local courthouse intending to register to vote. 

References

Ballantyne, K. (2021). We Might “Overcome Someday”: West Tennessee’s Rural Freedom Movement. Journal of Contemporary History, 56(1), 117–141. https://doi-org.proxy.lib.pdx.edu/10.1177/0022009420961449

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[1] https://vote.gov