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First, the not great news: youth registration is down compared to 2018 [1] . You can see the breakdown below. The election is only 46 days away, so these numbers are underwhelming. Now the good news: we still have time to register a boatload of young people, specifically college students. I’
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Moving forward I’m going to try to divide my updates into three buckets: 1. Strategic updates - what we’re thinking about and what’s guiding our work 2. Operational updates - the nuts and bolts of what we’re doing 3. Research updates - the results of programmatic analysis, where applicable
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NB: these posts start out as emails that go to our VIP email list. That list consists our donors, partners, and generally smart and interesting people who we know in real life. The recipients have asked me to cross-post those emails somewhere public, so they can share them with
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Writing that sentence made me anxious. Reading that sentence probably made you anxious. We're all anxious, all the time, because society as we know it appears to be crumbling, and the worst humans we can think of somehow get elected to office and do unspeakably bad things with
I’m back with another kind of long, but very important VoteAmerica update for you. I swear I don’t get paid by the word, I just really love talking about the smart things we do. I take a lot of pride in building a team that works smarter than
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I send an email to the VoteAmerica VIP list about once a month. This is a relatively small email list that reaches a few thousand people. Folks on that list have asked me to cross-post the emails on publicly so they can share with their friends. This email has
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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
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Written by Ben Weissmann (VoteAmerica) and originally published on the Twilio Blog. At VoteAmerica, we work to help Americans register to vote, and request vote-by-mail (also known as absentee) ballots. We use technology to remove barriers to voting and make sure that everyone can vote safely, easily, and
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Originally sent as an email on October 29, 2020 On October 20, 2020, I wrote to you to say that we needed to close a $985,000 funding gap. As of an hour ago, that gap is down to $19,000. Closing this gap in 9 days wasn’t easy.
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About once a week I send an email to the VoteAmerica Insiders list. At the request of many of the recipients, I’ve decided to cross post these emails on publicly. Feel free to share and to donate: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/voteamerica-medium VoteAmerica is a voter turnout
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About once a week I send an email to the VoteAmerica allies list. At the request of many of the recipients, I’ve decided to cross post these emails on online. Feel free to share and to donate. A donate link is at the bottom. Hey friends. An October 2016
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NB: Once a week or so I send an email to my personal contacts. People have asked me to cross-post on this blog so they can share. The emails are slightly edited (I remove my personal info), but otherwise unchanged. Hey friend, Well that debate was certainly energizing. I’