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Use mailbots to fight voter suppression target the disabled, veterans and elderly voters.

MailBots fight voter suppression by helping the disabled and seniors find voting info

Making access to voting information harder disenfranchises the elderly, disabled, less educated and those with limited internet access. This Jim Crow-style voter suppression is especially hard for the blind, disabled, seniors, and those without a computer and good internet access. MailBots counter this voter suppression by making voting related information more accessible to more people. …

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Use the demographic and behavioral targeting tools that businesses uses to find customers to also locate unregistered voters

Wanted: Unregistered Voters

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Mobilizing Supporters and Voters, Targeting and Geotargeting, Voter Suppression / By Deepak Puri

Use data analytics and behavioral targeting to find unregistered voters. It’s easier and cheaper than you think. VoterPAC aims to register, rally, and empower the rising American Electorate in California Central’s Valley. VoterPAC and DemLabs are testing a new behavioral targeting approach to find areas likely to have unregistered voters. The approach uses technology and …

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Fight Jim Crow digital voter suppression by providing volunteers with internet access

Ohio volunteers fight Jim Crow online voter suppression

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Mobilizing Supporters and Voters, Voter Suppression / By Deepak Puri

“Check your voting status online”. Too bad if you don’t have internet access. You might just lose your right to vote. Meet Jim Crow online voter suppression. “Republicans in Ohio target voter suppression against the poor who have been evicted. Make giving hand sanitizer a crime. Accept concealed carry permits as form of ID but …

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Stop Republican voter suppression bills that would deny disabled vets their right to vote

Let vets vote

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Messaging, Mobilizing Supporters and Voters, Video creation, Voter Suppression / By Deepak Puri

New Republican voter suppression bills deny disabled vets their right to vote. How can politicians ask Americans to die for democracy, but then deny them their right to vote? How do you encapsulate their hypocrisy and demand fair voting rights? Videos work, but how do you create a rapid response with a limited budget and …

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Infographics highlight Republican voter suppression schemes

Signs of voter suppression

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Mobilizing Supporters and Voters / By Deepak Puri

Infographics help understand the dozens of Republican voter suppression schemes. The human brain is a lazy muscle. It skips things that require effort with too much information, to something that’s easy and eye-catching. How do you get busy people to engage with issues that are important but not simple at first glance? Use infographics to …

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Olympic Gold Medal for voter suppression goes to …

Leave a Comment / Cartoons, Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Messaging, Mobilizing Supporters and Voters, Voter Suppression / By Deepak Puri

If there were an Olympic contest for voter suppression, who would win? We have three contenders. The Republican Party creating new laws to deny Americans their right to vote. The billionaire Koch brothers funding ALEC and the Heritage Fund that draft these bills and fund Republicans. And Justice John Roberts who gutted the Voting Rights …

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A better way to find and canvas unregistered voters

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Mapping and Story Mapping, Mobilizing Supporters and Voters, Route planning, Targeting and Geotargeting / By Deepak Puri

Find potentially unregistered voters – faster, easier and with less money using better technology and new data sources. Registering every eligible voter is critical with the voter suppression underway. “There are approximately 51 million eligible Americans are still not registered to vote. This represents almost one in four eligible persons, disproportionately low-income voters, people of color, and …

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Target invisible voters not in the voter file

Reaching the politically invisible voter

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Mobilizing Supporters and Voters, Targeting and Geotargeting, Voter Suppression / By Deepak Puri

Millions of Americans entitled to vote aren’t in the Voter File. They’re invisible to most campaigns. Voter files collect voter registration information (which is a matter of public record) and supplement it with information about potentially unregistered people from commercial data brokers. These lists often leave out the poor, those without credit cards, non homeowners, …

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Use external data sources to find unregistered voters

How the Florida Key Dems located eight thousand unregistered voters

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Mapping and Story Mapping, Targeting and Geotargeting, Voter Suppression / By Deepak Puri

“Seek and ye shall find” – Mathew 7:7 Philip Dodderidge is the Vice-Chair Florida Keys Democrats and searching for unregistered voters in the Florida Keys. He found 8,468 residents not in the Voter File in a project that took three days and cost $200. This is how he did it. It’s good to have the …

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Fight rural hospital closures with Medicaid expansion

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Mapping and Story Mapping, Mobilizing Supporters and Voters / By Deepak Puri

Republican led states reject Federal healthcare funding. Rural hospitals are closed denying poor, rural and communities or color the medical care they so desperately need. Where are hospitals being closed? Who suffers the most? What’s behind the politics of denying healthcare? What can you do to demand affordable healthcare? Rural healthcare slashed 181 rural hospitals …

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