Across 2024, there was a steady stream of commentary insisting young voters were “shifting to the right.” Even at the time, the data didn’t support that. My read of the data pointed to a collapse in participation, not an ideological realignment. Now, just weeks after the 2025 elections, we
At VoteAmerica, we know that reducing obstacles to voting drives participation in our democracy. And one of the best ways to reduce obstacles is to send voters a ballot in the mail for every single election. For instance, in universal vote by mail (UVBM) states, where all voters are sent
Prepared by Amelia Showalter, CEO of Pantheon Analytics. Research funded by Flytedesk. Reprinted with permission. Flytedesk and Pantheon Analytics partnered to analyze voter registration and turnout data for a series of large universities in battleground states in 2022. While we looked at all students, we were particularly interested in out-of-state
Overview In 2024, VoteAmerica is ready to engage over 7 million college students on 559 campuses across the country with a 4-week, 6-channel mobilization program that is scalable, cost-effective, and potentially game-changing. We’ve been running this exact program for 7 years now, and have produced anywhere from a 2-8
Written by Callie Buruchara, Debra Cleaver, Emily Behlmann, and Jennifer Lauv We're thrilled to announce a new feature on our absentee/mail ballot request form: walking voters through how to sign up for permanent absentee voting (PAV). Permanent absentee voting allows a voter to sign up to receive
Last updated June 4, 2024 Authors and Analysts Debra Cleaver (CEO, VoteAmerica) Jennifer Lauv (Data Engineer, VoteAmerica) Scott Minkoff, PhD (Associate Professor, SUNY New Paltz and Senior Research Fellow, VoteAmerica) Map 1. 2024 vote by mail rules by state* *10 states have semi-permanent absentee voting and will accept one request
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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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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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