High traffic on-the-spot vote tripling script and best practices
Thanks for maximizing your impact on Election Day and during Early Voting!
High traffic on-the-spot vote tripling is the most effective way to increase voter turnout on Election Day and during Early Voting. Your job is easy: (i) stand outside of a high-traffic location, (ii) engage with passersby (iii) ask them to text or call three friends right now to go vote!
Materials
Make sure you have:
Clipboard
Candy/Stickers/Goodies
Pens
Charged cell phone
Clothes for the weather
Best practices
Make a hard ask; be confident, be clear, and be concise with your ask
Talk to everyone; approach people before they come to you; smile and be friendly
Use social pressure, candy, or stickers to encourage folks to text on the spot!
Record your data after every interaction
Script
“Hi there, can I steal a quick minute of your time?”
“I’m trying to get more people to vote in the upcoming election, and we know that your friends and family are much more likely to listen to you about voting than they are to a stranger like me.”
“Can you text 3 people right now and remind them to vote today? If you remind 3 people right now I can give you this sticker”
“Thank you so much, have a great day!”
Overcoming nos & common hesitations
Note for the trainer:
When asking passersby to remind three friends to vote, you can expect them to remind between 2.4 to 3.0 friends to vote on the spot. This estimate is based on a pilot test of 300 canvassing-hours of HTOTS conducted by Vote Rev Action Fund in Florida in 2022.
However, when asking for five friends, you can expect a slight increase to 3.13, as found in a HTOTS program conducted by Vote Rev Action Fund in the 2022 Georgia Runoff.
Download a copy of the material here.
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