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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You people are exhausting, if you are even real.[/quote]
Seriously. Postcards to voters work. It’s good to remind everyone to vote. [/quote]

Do they though?   I’m questioning that.  [/quote]
“Right after the election, the results of the first quantitative study to look at the effectiveness of handwritten postcards came in. The Women’s Effect Action Fund commissioned a study to see if personal postcards could be used to mobilize women to get out and vote for a family-friendly economy agenda (issues like paid family leave). Postcards4VA writers served as the force behind the 26,000 postcards in this study, and results showed that the postcards increased turnout by 0.4 percent (a typical get-out-the-vote, or GOTV, canvass increases turnout by 0.3 percent) and concluded that the postcards had as good or better effect on voter turnout than going door to door. This was just one early study but it was a start.”

“Scott Forman, a tech guy from California who had been part of a company that used letters to persuade consumers to reduce energy use, decided to apply the same approach to voter turnout. Forman ran a small random trial study in the 2017 Alabama Senate race and found that voters who received his letter had a turnout rate 3 points higher than those in his control group. These findings inspired him to form the nonprofit Vote Forward to expand the use of letter writing for campaigns and the organization made research integral to everything they did through the Vote Forward labs program.”

https://demcastusa.com/2021/05/12/yes-postcards-to-voters-do-boost-interest-and-turnout/
https://medium.com/@lisaguide_14923/the-mighty-pen-prevails-d6030feaf018

“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. The results indicate that GOTV postcards did increase turnout, and that receiving a postcard sent from in-state increased turnout to a larger degree than receiving a postcard sent from out of state (though the difference was not statistically significant). Further, this study’s results indicate that postcarding may be particularly useful in quieter electoral environments, like primary elections.”
https://sisterdistrict.com/postcard-postmark-location/[/quote]

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