John - Coronavirus infections are surging and Trump is going to try to use the pandemic to suppress voters and keep people from casting their ballots.
Not on our watch. We’ve been talking to voters since JULY about their options for voting -- and the record voter turnout we’ve already seen is no accident. We have signed up 21,000 volunteers and made over 17 million attempts via phone, texts, and mail to guide voters through the process of voting safely from home or early in person.
Our unique “
life-cycle organizing model,” mixed with a data-driven approach for voter outreach, has proven effective in reaching swing-state voters. We proactively sent mail-in ballot applications to voters’ homes as soon as state election officials would permit, and then followed up on those applications with volunteer calls and texts and digital ads to ensure that they were filled out and returned in time.
While the president was pushing harmful disinformation about mail-in voting, aimed at suppressing voters and sowing distrust in our electoral system, we were doing the groundwork essential to helping people vote during a lethal pandemic: educating voters about their options, informing them of their state’s mail-in voting deadlines, conducting direct voter outreach, and tracking people’s applications and ballots to reduce rejection rates.
Our volunteers, and the millions of voters they have contacted, have demonstrated commendable resilience and resistance to a federal disenfranchisement campaign, destroying barriers and casting their votes against all odds.
Our work is far from over, but we are moved and motivated by how far we have come. Thanks for being part of this incredible movement.
Best,
Suzy
