Emily Liu, 26, a tech worker in Southern California, was among hundreds of employees who lost their jobs last month when the communications technology company Twilio announced it was cutting 11% of its workforce, part of a wave of layoffs across the tech industry.Tech for Campaigns, an organization founded in 2017 to connect tech workers who live in Democratic strongholds with resource-strapped swing-state candidates, said it has seen a surge in new volunteers driven by a combination of factors, including tech sector job cuts and the Supreme Court decision overturning the constitutional protection for abortion.The group, which works exclusively on state legislative races in red and purple states, said it saw 10 times as many signups in June as in April after a leaked draft of the Supreme Court’s eventual abortion ruling set off a scramble in state capitals to write and enforce abortion-related laws.The volunteers usually work in teams of three to four tech workers who handle advertising, emails, websites and other tasks that line up with some of their current or former day jobs at companies like Meta and Salesforce.Jennifer Conlin, who’s running for the Michigan House in a closely divided district that includes part of Ann Arbor, said that she appreciates the help of college students who volunteer but that tech workers bring another level of knowledge and experience."