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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
Analysis and memo prepared by Professor Scott Minkoff. Scott Minkoff is associate professor of political science at SUNY New Paltz and the co-author of Politics on Display: Yard Signs and the Politicization of Social Spaces (2019, Oxford University Press). Summary For the 2020 general election cycle, VoteAmerica ran a billboard
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I send an email to the VoteAmerica VIP list about once a month. This is a relatively small email list that reaches a few thousand people. Folks on that list have asked me to cross-post the emails on publicly so they can share with their friends. This email has been
WHY NAVAJO NATION: At more than 18,000 square miles, the Arizona portion of the Navajo Nation alone is larger and more populous than any other reservation in the country. Yet, it has only 27 postal locations, some of them open just three or four hours a day. This is
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VoteAmerica’s E-Sign technology Written by Ben Weissmann (VoteAmerica), and originally published on Medium. Republished here with permission. Americans don’t need to be convinced to vote. They need to be able to vote. It’s harder to vote in the United States than in any other nation with democratically-elected
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Written by Ben Weissmann (VoteAmerica) and originally published on the Twilio Blog. At VoteAmerica, we work to help Americans register to vote, and request vote-by-mail (also known as absentee) ballots. We use technology to remove barriers to voting and make sure that everyone can vote safely, easily, and securely. The
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Originally sent as an email on October 29, 2020 On October 20, 2020, I wrote to you to say that we needed to close a $985,000 funding gap. As of an hour ago, that gap is down to $19,000. Closing this gap in 9 days wasn’t easy.
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About once a week I send an email to the VoteAmerica Insiders list. At the request of many of the recipients, I’ve decided to cross post these emails on publicly. Feel free to share and to donate: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/voteamerica-medium VoteAmerica is a voter turnout organization,
college-students
The effects of college advertising on 2019 turnout in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi Analysis by Pantheon Analytics. Program designed by Debra Cleaver (VoteAmerica), Alex Kronman (Flytedesk), and Christopher Mann (Skidmore College). Originally published on October 15, 2020. Executive Summary During the 2019 gubernatorial elections in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi, Flytedesk,