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NEW: The VoteAmerica Research Center VoteAmerica doesn’t just run programs, we also measure their impact on turnout, and then we share our results publicly so that other groups can use our research to design better programs. Measuring impact isn’t easy for many reasons, including that (1) we don’
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Analysis by Christopher B. Mann PhD and Katherine Haenschen PhD. Originally published on Science Direct at this URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379423001518. Republished with the authors' permission. Abstract After hundreds of field experiments assessing their effectiveness, voter mobilization tactics are often considered “settled science.” In
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Program design by Jennifer Lauv (VoteAmerica). Program execution by Malbert Media. Program evaluation and memos prepared by Professor Donald P. Green, Columbia University and Aaron Schein, Columbia University Abstract: During the 2022 general election cycle, VoteAmerica, a nonpartisan organization that seeks to promote voter turnout, launched a direct-mail program that
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Program design by Debra Cleaver (VoteAmerica) and Professor Scott L Minkoff (SUNY Purchase). Evaluation and analysis Professor Scott L. Minkoff. Summary For the 2022 general election cycle, VoteAmerica ran a billboard advertising campaign in Milwaukee, Madison, and Racine, Wisconsin. This campaign encouraged people to vote on Election Day and reminded
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Evaluation memo prepared by Walter May, and reviewed by Jennifer Lauv and Professor Christopher Mann. Purpose of program VoteAmerica Action Fund ran a text messaging (Peer-to-Peer SMS) campaign aimed at getting potential voters in 10 counties who automatically received mail ballots to cast their ballot. 854,739 potential voters were
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Research and Analysis by Rachael Firestone, Jennifer Lauv, and Christopher Mann Memo and Additional Analysis by Scott Minkoff For the 2020 general election cycle, VoteAmerica ran a 10-state text messaging (Peer-to-Peer SMS) campaign aimed at geng potential voters to request ballots and vote by mail. The ten states were: Alabama,
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Research and Analysis by Rachael Firestone, Jennifer Lauv, and Christopher Mann Memo and Additional Analysis by Scott Minkoff For the 2020 general election cycle, VoteAmerica ran a 17-state ballot chase text messaging (Peer-to-Peer SMS) campaign aimed at getting voters who automatically received or requested mail ballots to submit them. In
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NB: these posts start out as emails that go to our VIP email list. That list consists our donors, partners, and generally smart and interesting people who we know in real life. The recipients have asked me to cross-post those emails somewhere public, so they can share them with their
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Research and analysis by Rachael Firestone, Jennifer Lauv, and Christopher Mann. Memo and additional analysis by Scott Minkoff. For the 2020 general election cycle, VoteAmerica ran an 18-state peer-to-peer (P2P) SMS text messaging campaign aimed at getting people vote in person, either during the early voting period or on Election
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Debra Cleaver (VoteAmerica) has been working with Flytedesk since 2018 to run college mobilization programs that utilize campus-media to increase registration and turnout. "Campus media" includes all media that is placed on campus properties, whether physical or digital. Campus media includes physical and digital ads on campus; campus
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VoteAmerica mailed 100,000 voter registration forms to recent movers in 2020. Here's what we learned. Existing mail-based voter registration programs for people who move are reliant on the National Change of Address (NCOA) database or commercial change of address databases to which individuals self-report their change in
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Prepared by: Rachael Firestone, Jennifer Lauv, Jeffrey Rodriguez, and Meghan Smith. Published: October 19, 2021 Summary The VoteAmerica (VA) Voter Helpline (VHL) connected more than 14,031 voters with trained volunteers to help answer their voting questions, including questions about ID re- quirements, polling locations, and submitting absentee ballots. While