Crowding at the ballot box: Voter responses to crowdedness and voting methods during the age of COVID-19
Sister District Action Network (SDAN) teamed up with Dr. Josh Ackerman and PhD candidate Iris Wang from the University of Michigan to conduct a randomized controlled trial via survey in July 2020 in order to investigate the effect of Covid-19 on voter thoughts and attitudes.
Friendraising works: Exploring message type and sender and their effects on friendraising
Sister District Action Network (SDAN) ran this study to explore the efficacy of friendraising, or leveraging personal relationships to raise money for candidates, by comparing two different email message frames, as well as comparing the efficacy of friendraising emails to the efficacy of traditional candidate fundraising emails sent from Sister District Project HQ.
States Matter More than Ever, and the Public is Finally Getting It.
Coronavirus and redistricting have awakened the public’s awareness of the importance of state government like never before.
Voter registration chase: A head to head comparison of postcards and letters
Sister District Action Network (SDAN) and the Voter Participation Center (VPC) conducted an experiment in April-May 2020 directly comparing the efficacy of postcards and letters as chaser communications to improve the response rate to voter registration forms.
Texting out the vote: Do GOTV texts help motivate voters to the polls?
Abstract: Sister District Action Network (SDAN) and the Mississippi NAACP (MS NAACP) partnered to conduct an experiment around GOTV text messaging during the days leading up to the general election in Mississippi on November 5, 2019. The study targeted predominantly Black / African-American voters whose prior voting history indicated they would be unlikely to vote […]
Activism in the Age of COVID-19: a Study
How has the coronavirus pandemic affected grassroots volunteering? Our new research finds out.
Virginia’s Progressive Policy Successes Light the Way For the Nation
In 2019, after years of hard and strategic organizing work, Democrats finally won control of both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century. Read on to see what they’ve done in 2020.
Location, Location, Location: Does postcard postmark location matter for voter turnout?
We sent GOTV postcards to voters in North Carolina and Texas to see if receiving a postcard at all might boost turnout, and to see if turnout was different for people who received a postcard sent from in-state as opposed to a postcard sent from out of state.
Fighting for the States During This Unprecedented Pandemic
Coronavirus has demonstrated the awesome power of state officials: governors, state legislators, and state agencies.
How the coronavirus highlights the importance of state legislatures
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Recently, Trump’s irresponsible proclamations and missives about COVID-19 have made national headlines. Instead of bringing our country together in a time of crisis, Trump has used the coronavirus as an opportunity to throw Democrats under the bus, while spuriously claiming they’re using the epidemic as a political tool. The truth is that, on his watch, […]
