Signing up for Vote Forward

Volunteers sign up through your co-branded landing page to create a Vote Forward account. During the signup process, volunteers are asked to verify their email address and answer a few short screening questions to ensure they are human beings with good intentions.

Choosing a campaign and adopting letters

Once approved, volunteers can begin “adopting” voters. Based on your organization’s goals and priorities, volunteers can be automatically assigned to any priority state within Vote Forward’s existing campaigns. After they’ve adopted voters, in batches of 5 or 20 at a time, volunteers use the download link to create and print a pdf, which includes a Voter List and letter templates. Each letter includes an opt out code, the voter’s address, and the return address to use (so they don’t have to use their own.)

Preparing and sending letters

On each letter the volunteer fills in the recipient’s name and their own reason for voting. Then they put it in an envelope, address the envelope, and add a stamp. Easy! Evidence shows that these kinds of messages have greater impact if they are sent as close as possible to the election without missing it, so we’re writing letters now to store in a safe place and mail all at once in late October. We’ll remind volunteers multiple times before the mail date to make sure all their letters get sent.