thisfinecrew | postcarding opportunities

For people who like doing GOTV postcarding, Postcards to Swing States has opened up signups to order postcards for the Nov 4 elections in Virginia, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. (You would send the postcards in October.)

Postcards are free; you just provide the stamps -- and handwrite the postcards with the message they give you. (N.B.: Postage rates are going up on July 13, so you probably wanna stock up on Forever stamps now.)

The form lists the lowest amount you can order as 100, but I recall last year you could order in increments of 25 -- just add a note to your order specifying the actual number you want.

I've been doing postcarding with Reclaim Our Vote/Center for Common Ground and Postcards to Voters, so I don't think I'll be doing Postcards to Swing States this time around, but am happy to talk about my experiences with any of these 3 postcarding orgs if people are interested.

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Postcards to Voters pretty much always has at least 1 campaign running -- sometimes for big elections, but often for smaller ones. Right now they're doing postcards to Florida votes whose vote-by-mail status has lapsed. From a recent post:

[Vote-by-mail (VBM)] Enrollment lasts up to two years, depending on how promptly one re-enrolls; it expires after each general election, so it’s tied to the Congressional and Presidential cycles. And everyone who’s signed up receives ballots for each local election as well.
The most important consideration is that voters who are enrolled in VBM are TWICE AS LIKELY TO VOTE, whether they choose to vote in person or by mail. It’s fine, if voters receive mail-in ballots, for them to turn up at the polls and opt to vote in person, instead.

Postcards to Voters is primarily on FB (they only email updates sporadically), but once you're an approved writer you can check for current campaigns on https://abby.postcardstovoters.org/

They have an Etsy shop you can buy postcards from, but you can use any non-partisan postcards (including just cutting up and decorating heavy paper yourself).

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ROV/CfCG does fewer campaigns but specifically does outreach to Black voters. They require that you use their postcards (available to purchase for pretty cheap), and you need to also buy Avery labels and be able to print them -- because in addition to handwriting messages on postcards, you also print out a label that has info about where to find their polling place or similar information (depending on the campaign). (And like Postcards to Voters, you have to get approved as a postcard writer before you can get addresses.)

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[So I would say Postcards to Swing States is the lowest barrier to entry, followed by Postcards to Voters, followed by Reclaim Our Vote/Center for Common Ground.]