Community Change Action Contacts 1.6 Million Voters in Key Battleground States
In Michigan, volunteers reached over 890,000 voters ahead of record-turnout primary
[Nationwide]–Community Change Action announced 1.6 million voter contacts in key states through our partners, including Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada and Wisconsin as part of their national campaign to mobilize infrequent voters, including Black, Latinx, immigrants, women and young people ahead of the 2020 election. All of the voter turnout work is happening remotely, through social media, text messaging, phone calls and one-on-one conversations.
In Michigan, volunteers sent more than 1 million personal text messages that provided critical vote by mail information to over 890,000 voters ahead of the state’s primary. This contributed to having more than 80% of mailed ballots being returned, breaking vote-by-mail records in primary turnout by more than 300,000 votes.
In Arizona, our state partner LUCHA helped elect candidates in 14 of their 15 races, including the first Indigenous woman elected to Tucson County government. A quarter of the ballots cast by Latinx voters were by first time voters.
In Nevada, more than 600 people joined our volunteer base, committing to turn out to vote and talk to their friends and family about voting.
In Florida, the Florida for All coalition has talked to 71,807 voters and completed more than 2 million texts and calls. The margin of victory in the 2018 U.S. Senate race was 10,033. We’ll have more than covered that margin by Election Day through this method alone.
FIRM Action, the largest immigrant rights network in the country, has also engaged pro-immigrant voters in at least 25 Congressional districts in California, Illinois, Maine, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington. Together, the network will reach millions of pro-immigrant voters this cycle. The target Congressional districts include CA-21, CA-25, CO-03, CO-06, FL-26, IL-03, IL-04, IL-05, IL-06, IL-08, IL-09, IL-10, IL-11, ME-02, NM-02, NV-03, NY-01, NY-02, NY-11, PA-01, PA-07, PA-10, VA-01, VA-02, and WA-03.
The voter contact work in Florida, Minnesota, Nevada and Wisconsin is part of the Win Justice campaign that includes Community Change Action, Planned Parenthood Votes, Color of Change PAC, SEIU, and our local partners and affiliates.
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