Insurrectionist Accountability: Texting Voters about Candidate Participation in the January 6 Insurrection
This study tested the effect of receiving a text message about their local state house or senate candidate’s participation in the January 6, 2021 insurrection on constituents’ likelihood of voting in the November 2022 general election.
How Much Handwriting Matters? Measuring Downstream Effects of Postcards to Voters
This investigation measured the downstream (general election) effects of sending completely handwritten or partially handwritten postcards with pro-choice messaging to likely pro-choice voters in Arizona ahead of the 2022 primary.
Values-Matched Messaging Replication: Holding Anti-Abortion Legislators to Account
Abstract: This study tested the effect on turnout of receiving a handwritten postcard highlighting the policy votes that a voter’s state legislative representative cast in opposition to the modeled policy position of the voter. The study design was a randomized controlled trial, with a postcard condition in which voters received a handwritten postcard with issue-specific […]
Rings of Three, Leave it Be: Testing the Three Rings Approach to Phonebanking
This study tested the trade-offs between contact rate and the number of conversations with two methods of phonebank calling: letting the phone ring through to voicemail or hanging up the phone if it hasn’t been answered in 3 rings.
New voters of color: Do welcome messages emphasizing voter identity increase turnout?
This study tested the efficacy of handwritten postcards that welcomed newly registered 18- and 19-year-old voters of color and gave them information about the upcoming election for increasing voter turnout.
Postcards to voters: How much handwriting matters?
This investigation measured the efficacy of completely handwritten and partially handwritten pro-choice postcards sent to modeled pro-choice Arizona voters ahead of the 2022 primary.
Values-matched messaging: Are postcards with values-matched messaging effective?
This study tested whether voter turnout increased after voters received a handwritten postcard featuring ‘values-matched messaging,’ such that they highlighted policy votes that their state legislative representatives made in opposition to the voters’ modeled policy positions.
Vote by Mail Ballot Chase: Do reminder text messages increase voter turnout?
This study explored whether chasing requested absentee ballots with a text message reminder to return them could increase voter turnout in Georgia.
Blue wave[s] substudy: Does receiving a third card help reactivate turnout effects ahead of the general election?
Abstract: In 2020, SDAN ran a Two Primaries Postcard Study, which was a randomized controlled trial that found that primary voter turnout among voters with low-mid turnout propensity for presidential primaries (turnout scores of 25-60) and high Democratic support scores (partisanship scores of 80+) could be improved by sending such voters a handwritten GOTV/voter education […]
Downstream analysis of primary postcard studies: Does getting GOTV postcards before the primary increase general election voter turnout?
This analysis explores the general election voting behavior of voters who SDAN sent GOTV postcards to ahead of the 2020 primaries, to determine if the increase in voter turnout we observed in those studies traveled downstream to increase turnout among those voters in the November 2020 general election.
