Action: postcards to voters
Oct. 15th, 2018 03:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redbirdI've been sending some "postcards to voters,", in which volunteers em>hand-write postcards to strangers; if writing hurts your hand, you probably shouldn't be doing this one. Also, you'd be paying for stamps and postcards, but the minimum commitment is only four cards.
The idea behind this is that a hand-written postcard from a stranger, with reasons to vote for a specific candidate, will be effective some of the time. Each postcard urges the recipient to vote for a specific candidate (e.g., Stacey Abrams for governor of Georgia), reminds the recipient when election day is, and has one other mandatory talking point. For one candidate, the mandatory talking points include "An election can sometimes turn on a single vote—make it yours." They also give a long list of optional content, if you have room on the postcard, ranging from campaign promises to "thank you for being a voter." There's some room for paraphrasing, but they're asking us to stick to the campaign's messages.
I've been writing things like "promises to fully fund public schools" and "will expand Medicaid to provide job and rescue rural hospitals" on the postcard (The cards are all going to registered Democrats, if that matters to you.)
This is oddly anonymous: you the writer are given addresses but not names, and above the address, instead of a name, write something neutral [sic] but encouraging, like "Concerned Citizen" or "Valued Voter." There's no return address. and the signature should be a first name or initials: I've been signing mine "Vicki," but there's nothing stopping me from identifying myself as "Victor" or "Natasha" if I feel like it.
rydra_wong suggested I write this up after I mentioned it in a comment; I'm posting this to my own journal and to ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
thisfinecrew.
The idea behind this is that a hand-written postcard from a stranger, with reasons to vote for a specific candidate, will be effective some of the time. Each postcard urges the recipient to vote for a specific candidate (e.g., Stacey Abrams for governor of Georgia), reminds the recipient when election day is, and has one other mandatory talking point. For one candidate, the mandatory talking points include "An election can sometimes turn on a single vote—make it yours." They also give a long list of optional content, if you have room on the postcard, ranging from campaign promises to "thank you for being a voter." There's some room for paraphrasing, but they're asking us to stick to the campaign's messages.
I've been writing things like "promises to fully fund public schools" and "will expand Medicaid to provide job and rescue rural hospitals" on the postcard (The cards are all going to registered Democrats, if that matters to you.)
This is oddly anonymous: you the writer are given addresses but not names, and above the address, instead of a name, write something neutral [sic] but encouraging, like "Concerned Citizen" or "Valued Voter." There's no return address. and the signature should be a first name or initials: I've been signing mine "Vicki," but there's nothing stopping me from identifying myself as "Victor" or "Natasha" if I feel like it.
rydra_wong suggested I write this up after I mentioned it in a comment; I'm posting this to my own journal and to thisfinecrew.
