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Here's also a site with other volunteering opportunities around you in person as well as online

Been seeing a lot of anxiety about the election on lemmy and online in general. Volunteering is a good way to turn the anxiety into something productive.

If nothing else it can at least help reduce the anxiety a bit

EDIT: And to clarify, Vote Forward in particular focuses on turnout and they do run regular randomized controlled trials that show it is increasing turnout

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Explain this to me, do they write letters to people who have opted in, or do they just target people based on publicly available information? Cause if I lived in a swing state and started getting random letters from people trying to convince me to vote one way or the other I'd probably vote the other direction just to spite them. I already get too much election spam letters because election mailings are exempt from the spam laws.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Vote forward mainly focuses on turnout rather than persuasion. They actually intentionally tell you to not use partisan language in them even though it's going toward likely dems

Getting dems to show up matters a lot in an election. They do regular testing on it and the letters show a measurable increase in turnout

(And to clarify it's not based on signups, though they do offer a way to opt out when people receive them)