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[GOTV] postcarding again
Dec. 12th, 2024 05:00 pmWhen my partner early voted this general election and posted a selfie, they said:
I feel like every year, the presidential election galvanizes people, but people often don't find out about stuff until it's too late for them to get involved and/or people's energy doesn't carry through the rest of the year.
I got really into GOTV postcarding this season, and closer to the election I started writing up about the postcarding I'd done with different orgs. And then election results came in and I did not feel enthused about evangelizing this work to people. But postcard campaigns for runoff/special elections have started, and I continue to like writing GOTV postcards as a way to potentially make a difference.
This year I wrote GOTV postcards with both Postcards to Swing States (A Progressive Turnout Project Initiative) and Reclaim Our Vote (Center for Common Ground). (I learned about the latter from a![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
thisfinecrew post about a number of postcarding and letter-writing options.)
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I think ROV is the org I most appreciate writing for -- it feels really impactful.
Postcards to Swing States is definitely the lowest barrier-to-entry one.
Tues Dec 10, I got an email from Postcards to Swing States that included, "Here's a preview of what we'll share on the December 19 webinar: [...] Some of our early plans for postcard campaigns beginning almost immediately"
I am not interested in attending the webinar, but I look forward to hearing about the postcarding. I then looked up Postcards to Voters' Current and they're doing postcards for a VA special election Jan 7 [Kannan Srinivasan, VA, Senate District 32 -- I Googled for more information and got e.g. this], so I made myself a Todoist to sign up for postcards for that.
( more about Postcards to Voters )
This isn’t the last time, right? /r
To be fair, I’m confident I’ll vote again. Autocracy regularly wraps itself in a shroud of false democracy.
I feel like every year, the presidential election galvanizes people, but people often don't find out about stuff until it's too late for them to get involved and/or people's energy doesn't carry through the rest of the year.
I got really into GOTV postcarding this season, and closer to the election I started writing up about the postcarding I'd done with different orgs. And then election results came in and I did not feel enthused about evangelizing this work to people. But postcard campaigns for runoff/special elections have started, and I continue to like writing GOTV postcards as a way to potentially make a difference.
This year I wrote GOTV postcards with both Postcards to Swing States (A Progressive Turnout Project Initiative) and Reclaim Our Vote (Center for Common Ground). (I learned about the latter from a
thisfinecrew post about a number of postcarding and letter-writing options.)( Read more... )
I think ROV is the org I most appreciate writing for -- it feels really impactful.
Postcards to Swing States is definitely the lowest barrier-to-entry one.
Tues Dec 10, I got an email from Postcards to Swing States that included, "Here's a preview of what we'll share on the December 19 webinar: [...] Some of our early plans for postcard campaigns beginning almost immediately"
I am not interested in attending the webinar, but I look forward to hearing about the postcarding. I then looked up Postcards to Voters' Current and they're doing postcards for a VA special election Jan 7 [Kannan Srinivasan, VA, Senate District 32 -- I Googled for more information and got e.g. this], so I made myself a Todoist to sign up for postcards for that.
( more about Postcards to Voters )