Vote Forward is an innovative GOTV project that connects volunteers with unlikely Dem voters all over the country. And it is really, really easy for an introverted or housebound person to do — or anybody!
Just sign up on their website (and then try signing in after a few hours to check whether you have been approved — Vote Forward is taking the sensible measure of screening the applications). You can then choose to adopt five voters to write to — or twenty-five. The system will generate a pdf of the individual letters, each targeted to a specific voter, that you then print and fill out. Stick each letter in an envelope, address it by hand, put the given Vote Forward return address for the district in question, afix a decorative postage stamp, and voila! You are ready to drop those letters in the mail on October 30.
For detailed instructions on how to prepare the letters, click here. Or watch this!
I am pleased to report that all the Congressional Districts that I listed in my recent diary about this awesome letter writing campaign have been fully adopted. But good news! Vote Forward has added a bunch more districts. There are many, many letters to unlikely voters to be written before the target mailing date of October 30 — so please jump in!
But didn’t I say something about letter writing parties?
Yes, yes I did! If you wish to get together with folks to write letters, Vote Forward has instructions on that, too.
If you are in Portland, OR and wish to gather to write GOTV letters, please drop me a Kos Mail. There is help available.
I will update the list below periodically for the sheer pleasure of watching the numbers go down as voters are adopted!
By the numbers, voters available for adoption at these Congressional Districts at 1:40pm pacific (updated 9:20pm)
CA-39: 14,070 12,065 8,550
CO-03: 14,236 13,366 12,501
FL-15: 14,429 11,579
FL-26: 26,935 25,635 23,945
IA-03: 20,295 19,880 19,230
IN-09: 18,721 18,296 17,826
KY-06: 17,726 17,366 16,666
MI-07: 20,140 19,560 18,900
MI-08: 20,214 19,719 19,289
MN-01: 20,408 19,643 18,953
MO-02: 16,961 16,341 15,366
NE-02: 19,860 19,745 19,435
NM-02: 14,791 14,411 13,551
NV-04: 7,152 5,877 3,447
PA-01: 11,781 10,266 7,916
VA-07: 19,515 19,110 17,920
WA-08: 17,778 17,088 15,478
WV-03: 13,545 13,130 12,940