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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
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Last updated January 23, 2024 Scott Minkoff, PhD (Associate Professor, SUNY New Paltz and Research Fellow, VoteAmerica). Jennifer Lauv (Data Engineer, VoteAmerica). Debra Cleaver (CEO, VoteAmerica) Map 1. 2024 vote by mail rules by state* Definitions 1. Universal VBM: all elections are held by mail 2. Permanent absentee voting (PAV)
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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
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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
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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
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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 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,
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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 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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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