The skill of the chase 2: Do chaser postcards help to amplify the utility of an earlier voter contact?
Abstract: This study tested the efficacy of postcards that follow up on a successful voter contact made by a campaign in increasing voter turnout. Six state legislative campaigns in 4 states provided SDAN with a list of people that they had successfully contacted and identified as supporters through phonebanking or canvassing. A randomly chosen half […]
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.
A culture of voting: Does early, repeated voter contact help boost odd year voter turnout?
This study sought to determine if sending 3 waves of handwritten postcards to high support, mid-low turnout propensity voters could increase voter turnout for the 2019 Virginia, Louisiana, and Mississippi primary and general elections.
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.
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.
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 […]
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.
Relational Voter Turnout: Tag, You’re It?
Can Facebook increase voter turnout? Our study looks at whether being tagged in a status by a friend makes people more likely to vote.
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.
