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Call for Volunteers: Postcards to New Voters in Swing States [1]

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Date: 2024-06-03  

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 — critical states that will determine who wins the White House and the Senate majority for the next two years. For the last 2 years, Hope Springs has asked volunteers to send postcards to New Voters project, the voters who get almost no kind of communication from campaigns (because new voters don’t have a voter history). We are expanding that effort this year.

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). First Round postcard 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. 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.

Second Wave (Motivational) Card

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