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Debra Cleaver, CEO of VoteAmerica here. I have some positive news to share, which I’m sure we can all use right now. After months of hard work: 1. VoteAmerica launched our summer research program 2. And a full suite of powerful, open-sourced voter turnout tools 3. And now we
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Program conception and fundraising by Debra Cleaver. Randomized controlled trial (RCT) experiment design and analysis by Christopher Mann, Ph.D. Program implementation by a National Civic Organization NCO. Program goals * We wanted to determine the most effective messaging on both the recipient and the recipients' households. These are respectively
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These days, standing in line next to other people can kill you, and yet there are lines everywhere. Lines for unemployment in Florida. Lines for food in Ohio. Lines to vote in Wisconsin. In fact, we’ve just learned that at least 67 Wisconsinites got COVID-19 after voting or working
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Flytedesk worked with several prominent national civic organizations (NCOs) and political campaigns to run campus advertising programs encouraging voter registration and turnout. Flytedesk then hired Bluelabs to conduct program evaluation. The below report was prepared by Bluelabs for Flytedesk and has been re-printed with permission. OVERVIEW AND METHODOLOGY In late
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Did the BallotReady “Make a Plan to Vote” tool increase voter turnout during the 2018 midterm elections? Program design by Debra Cleaver (VoteAmerica) and Alex Niemczewski (BallotReady). This study was funded by the Arnold Foundation. Experiment design and analysis by Enrico Cantoni (Assistant Professor, Bologna University), Donghee Jo (Assistant Professor,
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Program conception, design, and fundraising by Debra Cleaver. Program implementation by a national civic organization (NCO). Program evaluation by Pantheon Analytics. Executive Summary In October of 2018, NCO ran a randomized control trial to determine whether digital messaging (email and SMS) pushing voters to sign up for absentee ballots could
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Program design by Debra Cleaver (VoteAmerica) and Professor Christopher Mann (Skidmore College). Evaluations, and memos prepared by Christopher B. Mann, Ph.D., or Christopher B. Mann, Ph.D. and Katherine Haenschen, Ph.D. This program resulted in the preparation of 17 different memos, 1 hour long video, and 1 powerpoint
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Program conception, design, and fundraising by Debra Cleaver (VoteAmerica). Program execution by a national civic organization (NCO). Analysis by Pantheon Analytics. The below was originally published on September 27, 2019 Executive Summary In 2018, NCO implemented an option on its absentee signup and registration pages that allowed users to sign
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Which sms message copy worked best to mobilize subscribers in 2018? Program design by Debra Cleaver (VoteAmerica) and Christopher Mann (Skidmore College). Program execution by a national civic organization (NCO) with a large list of opted-in SMS subscribers.Program evaluation by Christopher Mann. Originally published in 2019. Executive Summary For
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Program design by Debra Cleaver (VoteAmerica). Program execution by a national civic organization (NCO). Program evaluation and written evaluation by Scott Minkoff, Associate Professor (SUNY New Paltz). Summary This report presents the results of a turnout analysis of NCO’s 2018 billboard programs in Mississippi and Maricopa County, AZ. I
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Program conception and design by Debra Cleaver (VoteAmerica) and Christopher Mann (Skidmore College). Evaluation by Michael Schwam-Baird, Jeff Ferguson, and Miya Woolfalk (Analyst Institute). Executive Summary In the lead up to the November 2017 gubernatorial election in Virginia, a national civic organization (NCO) partnered with Analyst Institute to evaluate a
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Do digital GOTV ads on Pandora and Spotify increase voter turnout? A 2017 experiment Program design by Debra Cleaver (VoteAmerica). Creative work and media placement by Solidarity Strategies, LLC. Experiment design and analysis by the Analyst Institute. The below is excerpted from a study published in 2018. Executive Summary In