(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Hope Springs' Postcards to New Voters Sign Ups [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-05-23 Since March 2nd, Hope Springs from Field PAC [website] has been knocking on doors (as weather and primaries permitted) in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin — all critical states that will determine who wins the White House and the Senate majority for the next two years. Almost from that time, i've had emails, texts and phone calls asking, when can we get started on Hope Springs’ Postcards to New Voters project? (One of the things about an all-grassroots volunteer operation is that we definitely have list of things to accomplish with dates set to them.) No surprise, the week before a holiday allows the time to get started on the next step. Several people have already told me they wanted to organize groups of people and basically said, can you send the postcards now? So, especially for those who already know they want to do this, if you can volunteer to write post cards, specifically in batches of 25 for 3 rounds (thinking late August, late September, mid-October), please sign up here: 2024 Hope Springs from Field New Voter Reg. Post Cards Sign Up One of the most important aspects of our canvassing in these Swing States has been Registering and Re-Registering Voters (updating their addresses in accordance with federal election law). But this post focuses on post-registration efforts to mobilize those New Voters we registered (and, if we have the bandwidth, those who were otherwise registered in these states). This year, we will be expanding this project to all the New Voters in these Swing States for whom we have volunteers willing to write to them. There’s method to this madness. New Voters rarely make it into traditional campaign’s voter contact efforts and yet, like infrequent voters, they need more, not less, communications and outreach to actually cast a ballot. Like any “new thing,” sometimes it takes extra motivation or encouragement to actually do it, in this case, actually cast a ballot. Those New Voters who we have registered at the door have had prior contact with one of our volunteers, and they know that Democrats are serious about preserving Democracy, protecting their right to vote and interested in maintaining the public infrastructure in their neighborhoods. First Round postcard These are intended to be first contact communications, reminding people they are registered to vote and that there’s an important election approaching. The critical point is that most campaigns exclude them from their own voter outreach efforts because of the low percentages in which new voters — and especially young voters — actually turnout to cast ballots. And the fact is that new voters, the ones who have yet to make voting a real habit, are the ones who need the most attention. Starting in the middle of August, we will be reaching out to New Voters, voters who have never been eligible to vote before, through the use of Post Cards. Starting date (date to send out post cards to voters by volunteers) will be different because every state has different Early Voting dates. And while we won’t be providing wording for the post cards, we are asking that the first postcard encourage Vote By Mail (VBM) or Absentee Ballots for those states that allow it (~August), that second round remind voters that Early Voting has (or is about to) started in their state and the third round focus on Election Day. Post cards had an interesting impact in the 2021 Georgia Senate Runoffs. When I had meetings in the Atlanta area, I’d have people show me an example of a dozen or so postcards they had received encouraging them to vote. The desk manager at the hotel where I would stay had a collage of 18 postcards and she still received at least one more after she had voted. People loved them and would talk about them on Facebook and other social media. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/23/2242260/-Postcards?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/