Wanna help get out the vote but don’t want to make calls?
Through the votegreengov.org project of the Vermont League of Conservation Voters, there’s a nifty tool available that I want to encourage readers to check out. Yeah, I’m gonna toot my own horn, here, and take credit for the concept, but it’s the PowerThru folks that made it work.
VLCV has a list of IDed green voters. When you go to this site and put in your email address, you can enter your zip code and see if there’s anybody you know on that list. You can then click on them and send them a personalized get-out-the-vote email message that comes from you, not some distant, generic, out of state automated-gotv-spam machine. It’s simple, form-driven (so nobody’s email address is hanging out there to be scooped up by a third party) and includes no contact information, so as not to get into the issue of hanging personal info out there.
I’m excited because it brings true GOTV to the web, as opposed to just making a lot of generalized noise and content to drive as much traffic as possible to persuasion and GOTV sites. CHeck it out, spread the word (and let me know if there’s anything that doesn’t work right).
I’m really excited about this new tool! This, in addition to our iPhone and Droid App along with a variety of other 21st century electoral tools we are currently utilizing, the VT LCV electoral efforts are cutting edge. I think we are utilizing new tactics that very few entities, including the candidates, are using in Vermont at this point.
Thanks to the folks at PowerThru as well as John and Andrea for making the plan a reality.
Vote Green
Todd
PS – Please don’t forget, we are still engaging in good old fashioned GOTGV – Get Out The Green Vote – tactics so we can always use more volunteers.
Contact Andrea at 802-249-4030 to volunteer at our Barre location
Contact Drew at 802-234-1049 to volunteer at our Burlington location
The only problem for me: all of my friends on the list it generated have already voted! I guess that’s a good problem to have. 🙂
Also, it might be worth – for future elections – having someone dedicated to de-duping the list. There are a couple of unique names that appear twice, and one that’s amusingly misspelled.
Wicked nice tool. A great model for other grassroots GOTV efforts.
One problem, not unique to this one: no differentiation between St Albans Town and City. Not sure anybody has an answer to that…