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eridani

(51,907 posts)
Sun Jul 31, 2022, 06:58 PM Jul 2022

Hand written postcards improve voter turnout

I'm doing 200 to voters in AZ. You pay postage--forever postcard stamps are available in rolls. They wouldn't get mailed until October 28th, so you have plenty of time to write them gradually

www.turnoutpac.org/postcards
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Hand written postcards improve voter turnout (Original Post) eridani Jul 2022 OP
Is Louis DeJoy... ultralite001 Jul 2022 #1
The DCCC homegirl Jul 2022 #12
Reading this warms my heart... ultralite001 Aug 2022 #15
I go through Activate America DBoon Jul 2022 #2
I have 4 handwritten cards. I would post them except for personal info. Baked Potato Jul 2022 #3
I got 200 from The Progressive Turnout Project as well. Sky Jewels Jul 2022 #4
I wrote postcards thru another org two years ago Demovictory9 Jul 2022 #5
I'm working on 200 to Nevada! 2 Meow Momma Jul 2022 #6
There are at least two groups using this tactic in my county LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2022 #7
I'm writing letters with Vote Forward. Pinback Jul 2022 #8
I did this to NC and PA in moonscape Jul 2022 #9
Back in 2004, I wrote letters for Howard Dean to some folks in summer_in_TX Jul 2022 #10
Is anyone doing this in Spanish with Hispanic voters? dobleremolque Jul 2022 #11
Hi I found a couple of spanish postcarding efforts Fresh_Start Aug 2022 #14
I must've gotten a hundred of these before the General Election..... OhioChick Aug 2022 #13

homegirl

(1,470 posts)
12. The DCCC
Sun Jul 31, 2022, 09:34 PM
Jul 2022

should send a super sized postcard to every registered voter in the country. No photos, no pleas for money, just a list of all the votes against average Americans by the GOP members of Congress. And comments on local and state GOP politicians who have disregarded the wishes and needs of their constituents.

A few years ago four women were running for positions on my local County Board of Supervisors, they combined their efforts in the form of a regulation size postcard stating their positions on local issues. Three of those four women won, KISS Keep It Simple Stipid=worked for IBM!

Baked Potato

(7,733 posts)
3. I have 4 handwritten cards. I would post them except for personal info.
Sun Jul 31, 2022, 08:19 PM
Jul 2022

I have 3 from 2020 and 1 from this year. I thank you all who do this !!!

Sky Jewels

(7,607 posts)
4. I got 200 from The Progressive Turnout Project as well.
Sun Jul 31, 2022, 08:27 PM
Jul 2022

They gave me Nevada addresses. I farmed out batches of 20 to five friends, and I'm about halfway through my batch of 100. I hope to finish soon so I can order more postcards.

2 Meow Momma

(6,697 posts)
6. I'm working on 200 to Nevada!
Sun Jul 31, 2022, 08:44 PM
Jul 2022

I do about 20-25 per day. I get googely eyed if I do more than that at a time.

Pinback

(12,379 posts)
8. I'm writing letters with Vote Forward.
Sun Jul 31, 2022, 09:03 PM
Jul 2022
https://votefwd.org/

These campaigns are effective, and they’re a great way to feel productive and useful.

Keep writing!

moonscape

(4,832 posts)
9. I did this to NC and PA in
Sun Jul 31, 2022, 09:05 PM
Jul 2022

2020 but the org. I did it for wanted letters vs postcards, saying they were more effective. Don’t know about that, but do know it was a lot more work.

Thinking I’ll do postcards next time!

summer_in_TX

(2,917 posts)
10. Back in 2004, I wrote letters for Howard Dean to some folks in
Sun Jul 31, 2022, 09:16 PM
Jul 2022

Iowa ahead of the Iowa caucuses. For a year or two afterwards I had a nice penpal there who responded to one of those letters. Elderly guy without much family. Even talked to him on the phone.

But, he did not vote for Dean.

dobleremolque

(648 posts)
11. Is anyone doing this in Spanish with Hispanic voters?
Sun Jul 31, 2022, 09:32 PM
Jul 2022

I'd do a couple of hundred of them in Spanish if I could get a list.....

Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)
14. Hi I found a couple of spanish postcarding efforts
Mon Aug 1, 2022, 11:20 AM
Aug 2022
https://www.postcardsforamerica.com/gotv-postcards.html
is asking for spanish postcards for two seats in California
Spanish language postcards are also needed for Christy Smith (CA-25) and Gil Cisneros (CA-39).
Sign up to get addresses at this website: https://forms.gle/caQgAv7Q1Cgu1sFG9 and please either download Spanish postcards here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HCLCggg9HEUS2VYXx0_oSrCLvf-Kp23u/view or ask to have them delivered.

Broward county florida is looking for spanish postcarding as well.
https://www.browardforprogress.org/postcards-to-voters

OhioChick

(23,218 posts)
13. I must've gotten a hundred of these before the General Election.....
Mon Aug 1, 2022, 02:14 AM
Aug 2022

Will be doing them myself for the Midterms.

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