Get Out The Vote

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July 21, 2018

Quick Question

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Who’s new, and does anyone not know who we are?

Our Bread & Butter

• Website - VoteChampaign.org / VoteCU.org
• “1, 2, 3, VOTE!”
• Register, Research, VOTE!
• Candidate Guide
• Questionnaires have gone out
• Answers Ready by August 3rd
• Printed Material
• Flyers
• Voter Info Cards
• Doorhangers!

Intro

• Interesting Research
• CCVA Updates & Progress
• Upcoming Opportunities
• Projects

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Interesting Research

What is the participation ceiling?

• 2018 national study shows: Only 12% said they had no interest in voting, which means 80%+ ARE interested
• 50% say they will vote with Certainty, and 32% are 50/50
• Australia has ~92% turnout
• Oregon has ~86% turnout
• Humans care about participating / voting
• So is 55% really the best Champaign County can do?

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Research - Pt 2

2018 Study:

Republicans & Dems agree, there are:

• Too Few Voters (58 / 78)
• Too Many Uninformed Voters (66 / 57)

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Some Interesting Graphs

Plugged in 16 years of local data, going back to 2002.

Some interesting results...

County-Wide - Full Data

County-Wide - Registered Voters

Campus - Registered Voters

County-Wide - Presidential Turnout

Campus - The Rising Tide

Campus - Downballot Mania

County-Wide - Downballot

Campus - Presidential Turnout

Campus - State Election Turnout

Door Hangers!

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• Cameron’s helping on designs
• Campus specific vs county-wide?
• Double the cost…
• Could have specific info about early voting locations

Door Hangers - Costs

Fairly cheap

• 2000x at $125 total ($19 shipping included) 6.25 c/each
• 2500x at 118+ship
• 3000x at $175 ($25 shipping) 5.83 c
• 4000x at 162+ship
• 5000x at $244 ($34 shipping) 4.88 c
• Includes tax

A B C

A B C

New Backend Code

Slowly updating backend code

• New sharing views
• Cleaner guide/profile size for mobile

New Sharing views

Code code code code - more to do...

Still several things on list of improvements

• A couple twitter sharing images broke
• Top priority, cause twitter shares can be huge for young voters
• Link to Wikipedia / Statute Definitions for each race/position
• More backend tweaks
• One day want to be able to easily hand off code-package to other counties

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Questionnaire Progress

• 50% have received or already filled out the questionnaire
• I’ve sent follow ups to the remainders
• Follow ups continuing next week
• Aiming for August 3rd for first push
• Might still have stragglers coming in after the 3rd

New - Link Submission Form

For submitting debate links

• votechampaign.org/submitlink
• Video, Radio, or Questionnaire
• Link Needs to include all candidates

Met with a few folks

Discussing different aspects of voter turnout

• Durl
• IRV / RCV - urbana ‘07
• Ben Chapman & Nathan P.
• IRV / RCV - The Rebirth ‘18
• Michelle - TPA
• Soon… - Next Friday
• Want to see how can work together on Quad Day & Beyond!

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Quad Day!

• August 26th
• VBM Signups Will Be Available
• Guide will be done too
• Table signups were full
• May need to piggy-back with a common group
• We’ll bring a big cooler of ice & water - essential
• Mainly Palm Carding & Advocating VBM / Early Voting

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Upcoming Timeline

August-

Aug 8th - VBM Requests begins

**Aug 11th - Champaign-Urbana Day

Aug 17-18 - Taste of Champaign

Aug 18th - High Schools start class

Aug 24/25 - Urbana Sweet Corn Festival

***Aug 26th - Quad Day

Aug 30th - First Wave of Flyering

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September-

*Sept 27th - CCVA Meeting - VBM!

Sept 27th - VBM / Early Voting Begins

Sept 30th - Second Wave Flyering/Campus

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October-

*Oct 4th - Campus GOTV Event

Oct 15th - Third Wave/Campus

Oct 31st - Early Voting Week*

November-

Nov 6th - Election Day

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Pushing VBM Signups?

• Available August 8th
• votecu.org/vbm
• votechampaign.org/vbm
• Easy to share
• Convenient
• 1/3rd of local State Primary - ‘18 votes were early voters
• Would love more stats on this
• Could still use an infographic for sharing.

Flyer Canvassing

• Need people to own some areas/zones
• Campus
• Round Barn / SW Champaign
• Rantoul
• Etc
• Need to hit as many cork boards as possible
• Coffee Shops
• Civic Centers
• Libraries
• etc

Goals

• More Community Outreach
• Barber Shops / Salons
• High School SROs
• Can get material to 17/18 year old voters
• Smaller Civic/Community Centers & gyms
• Religious Orgs
• We are non-partisan, and they are allowed to do non-partisan outreach

Project Ideas

• More Digitally Sharable Content
• ImageMacros
• Stock letters for LTE to multiple publications
• Potentially more original content, video &/or audio

GOTV FaceBook Groups

Champaign County Get Out The Vote (GOTV)

• facebook.com/groups/votecu

Get Out The Vote at UIUC 2018

• Easier to search for than type in url
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/186963618550662/
• Has a little more activity

We can use this as a way to discuss local GOTV opportunities & share resources specific to getting out the vote (studies we’ve read, articles, videos, etc).��

THANK YOU

To all the people that helped us this past year!

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We have learned so much and there are so many hard working activists and volunteers in our community.

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�You all ROCK!

Next Meeting

September 27th - a Thursday

Champaign Library - Room C

7pm - 9pm

Appendix

Other information that didn’t make the cut...

Other Ideas

• Vice Chancellor - Diane Brown Young
• 90/40/14-7 plan
• Walter is onboard
• Haven’t contacted her yet
• Campus Voter Day - Oct 4th

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Frederick Douglass

“Power concedes nothing without a demand.”

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Interesting Campus* Numbers

• Highest % Turnout was also 2002: 24.3%
• 2014 VTP: 16.4%
• VTP Range is: ~13-25%

*(CC 2,3,4,5,7,8 & CN 2,3,4,5)