Civic engagement groups that provide free rides to the election polls add at least three benefits to their total voter engagement program. Primarily, and most obviously, rides are an excellent way to boost the number of voters in historically low-turnout polling locations. Generally, the voters who typically need rides to the polls include the elderly,...
Donald P. Green, Director, Institution for Social and Policy Studies and A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Political Science at Yale University, discusses...
Voter registration requirements that place the burden on the individual to register prior to an election – something unique to the United States among...
Crawford v. Marion County Election Board is the most important voting case in the Supreme Court since Bush v. Gore. At issue is Indiana’s voter ID requirement,...
The last thing any civic engagement 501(c)(3) group wants is to jeopardize its tax-exempt status. Solid legal knowledge and good legal counsel are the best and, in the end, only ways to avoid both vulnerability...
For a variety of reasons, the likelihood of persons registering and voting is different among various racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups. One of the unfortunate consequences of the varying rates is...
So, what’s a predictive dialer? Basically it’s a system that uses some high-tech gadgetry to minimize dead time between calls made by paid staff or volunteers (referred to as “call agents”). And,...
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Voter Contact Magazine! Voter Contact Magazine is designed for people and groups, especially nonprofit/nonpartisan groups, that plan, organize, manage and fund civic...