Voter advocacy
From Mobilize the Immigrant Vote
refers to activities focused on protecting the voters’ bill of rights and the Voting Rights Act. Examples of voter advocacy activities include: poll monitoring, exit polling, monitoring any state initiative to take away one’s right or access to vote, organizations signing on to amicus briefs to dispute a state law that would disenfranchise voters (for example a law in Georgia that if passed would require citizens to show proof of citizenship when registering to vote).
Movement-Building Electoral Organizing: Dictionary of Terms
- Electoral organizing, Movement-building electoral organizing, Immigrant-focused electoral campaign, Traditional electoral campaign, Work plans
- Issue advocacy, Issue, Direct-action organizing, Lobbying, Constituency target, Decision-maker target
- Media campaign, Media hits
- Voter advocacy, Voting Rights Act, Poll monitoring, Election day activities
- GOTV, Contact, GOTV target list, Phone banking, Precinct, Precinct walking, Raps or scripts, Robo calls
- Science of numbers, Voter turnout, Win number, Consistent voters, Infrequent voters, Swing voters, Expected voters, Base voters
- Evaluation, Tracking, Voter matching, Treatment and control, Exit polling
- Voter files or lists, Universe, Voter targeting, Voter modeling, Voter identification
- Voter technology, Voter Activation Network (VAN), Catalist
- Census, Naturalization, Political education, Training, Volunteer/member recruitment
- Absentee ballot, Poll
