Blue waves: Do 2 waves of primary GOTV postcards increase voter turnout?
This study sought to determine if voter turnout among low-to-mid turnout propensity, high support voters could be improved by sending a GOTV/voter education postcard to voters ahead of each of the 2020 state and presidential primaries in Florida, Georgia, and Minnesota.
The skill of the chase: Do chaser postcards help to amplify the utility of an earlier voter contact?
This pilot study tested whether sending a handwritten postcard to a voter, to follow up on a successful voter contact made by a campaign earlier that year, could increase voter turnout.
Six Things You Can Do To GOTV
GOTV has arrived! Sister District outlines the 6 things you can do this election season to help get out the vote.
Creative Organizing During a Pandemic
Our top 7 recommendations for staying healthy, sane, and still getting Democrats elected during the coronavirus outbreak.
EMILY’s List Joint Weekend of Action in Photos
Sister District teamed up with EMILY’s List for a joint weekend of action! Check out photos of phonebanking, postcarding, canvassing, and textbanking!
SDAN+VPC VR Voting Pipeline Postcard Study
We ran a randomized controlled trial to determine: 1) if people who received a handwritten postcard encouraging voter registration, along with an official voter registration form from Voter Participation Center (VPC), in our March and Sept 2018 studies had higher odds of turning out to vote in the November 2018 general election; and 2) if the effect of those postcards differed based on whether or not those targets had returned the registration form sent to them by VPC earlier in the year.
2018 GOTV Postcarding Results
We ran two randomized controlled trials in the Fall of 2018 to determine if receiving a handwritten postcard encouraging the target to vote increased the odds of voters turning out to vote for in the 2018 general election in Pennsylvania and Michigan, and further sought to determine if those odds differed based on the postcard message.
Voter Registration Postcarding 2: A Replication with VPC + SDAN
We ran a randomized controlled trial to determine if the receipt of a handwritten postcard a week after the receipt of an official voter registration form increased the odds of people completing & returning the voter registration form, as compared to the odds of return among people who did not receive a postcard.
VPC+SDAN Postcarding Experiment Results
Sister District Action Network (SDAN) partnered with the Voter Participation Center (VPC) to send handwritten postcards encouraging registration to eligible, unregistered individuals living in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Arizona in March 2018. These postcards were sent in conjunction with VPC’s Voting Age Population Program, which sent official voter registration forms to these same people.
