These days I find myself addicted to checking the Vote Forward tracker to see how many voters in battleground states our volunteers have adopted.
It's incredible that this project, which sent over 1 million letters to Democratic-leaning voters in 2018 to help us win back control of Congress, is on the verge of sending 10 million this year.
And with less than three weeks before the Oct. 17 send date where these personalized, handwritten letters will be dropped in the mail, we have already adopted over 9 million voters!
Now is the time to join Vote Forward if you have not done so, or to log back into your account and adopt more voters. If you have adopted voters, we need you to focus all your time now on writing these letters and prepping them for the Oct. 17 send date!
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Vote Forward is an innovative program that started as an experiment in 2017 for the Alabama Senate special election that elected Democrat Doug Jones. The theory was that if Democratic-leaning voters who don't have the best track record of voting received a personal letter from a volunteer telling them why voting matters so much in this election, would they go vote?
The results were encouraging. A study by the Analyst Institute showed that Alabama voters who received these letters were 3% more likely to cast a ballot than the control group.
Vote Forward was the most popular get-out-the-vote activity for Daily Kos members in the 2018 midterms, and continues to be so for the 2020 cycle. And you can see why. You don't need to talk to anyone, you can safely write letters from the comfort of your own home, and the message is simple: Please vote. Over 50,000 Daily Kos members signed up for it.
More member organizations—like Indivisible, Swing Left, Stand Up America, and other allies—are actively part of the program this time, which will help make it even more effective than before.
Saturday, Oct. 17 will be here sooner than we know it, so we don't have much time left to write these letters and send them to 10 million voters. Vote Forward is so popular with our volunteers that they keep having to add more letters in the database for volunteers to "adopt."
With 9 million voters adopted in the whole program (and 1.4 million of those alone are from Daily Kos volunteers), we will blow past the 10 million number by Oct. 17. We just need your help to hunker down, adopt voters, write letters, and prep them for the Big Send.
Be a part of this historic Big Send. Sign up or log into your Vote Forward account here.
The election will be over in 36 days, and in some states people are already voting early. Chip in $3 to help Daily Kos recruit thousands of volunteers to help get out the vote.