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Today – November 5, 2024 – is Election Day. Millions of ballots have already been cast, and millions more will be cast today. We won't probably won't know who won tonight, and that's okay. First we cast the votes, then election officials count then ballots, and
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We’ve identified Michigan as a rising priority state, where it costs less than $2M to mobilize 400,000 students across 36 key campuses in the most competitive districts. One of the things I love most about what we do at VoteAmerica is how quickly we can pivot. The data
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We’ve identified the top 10 most competitive congressional districts in the country - all located in Arizona and Nevada. To reach more than half a million students across 26 key campuses within these districts, we still need to secure $2 million by September 12 – and you can help us close
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Shocking no one, I’ve penned a pretty lengthy email below. It’s time sensitive and important, so I hope you make it to the end. Bottom line upfront: billboards can get millions of voters to the polls. They’re highly affordable, and they scale. The deadline for us to
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This email, like all of my emails, is too long, so I'm not going to bury the lede. The US doesn't have a voter registration problem, we have a voter turnout problem. 80% of Americans are already registered to vote, but only 60% of voting aged
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NEW: The VoteAmerica Research Center VoteAmerica doesn’t just run programs, we also measure their impact on turnout, and then we share our results publicly so that other groups can use our research to design better programs. Measuring impact isn’t easy for many reasons, including that (1) we don’
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Today is Election Day in 39 states. Election Day is kind of like Christmas, if Christmas was both exciting and incredibly nerve wracking. If you're anything like me, you're going to need something to distract you for the next few hours while you wait for polls
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It's time to talk about November 2023! Six states have competitive statewide elections this fall and the youth vote could be the deciding factor in each of them. Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi all have gubernatorial elections, Virginia and New Jersey have state legislative elections, and Ohio has an
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I’ll try to keep this email relatively short and to the point. I just want to share an update on our GOTV work. First, I want to share that so far we have raised ~$400,000 in just a matter of weeks. Second, the first wave of our campus
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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