get out the vote
Encourage electoral participation
Get out the vote is an effort to encourage people to cast ballots in an election, typically through canvassing, phone banks, transportation to polling places, and reminders.
Often abbreviated GOTV, it's the final push of political campaigns: We need volunteers for get-out-the-vote efforts this weekend.
The phrase also functions as a verb: They're getting out the vote in swing districts.
- walk-around moneyCash for grassroots canvassing
- ground gameOffense via carrying ball
- door knockingStriking an entrance repeatedly
- campaigningActively pursuing political support
- electioneeringPolitical campaign activity
mobilize · electorate · grassroots mobilization · mail-in ballots · canvassing · phone banking · absentee · battleground states · ballot · precinct captains · community organizing · swing states · referendum · poll workers · down ballot · ballot initiatives · political rallies · red states
- activismboycotts, activists, activist, advocate, demonstrating
- campaigningcandidate, campaign signs, canvassing, campaign manager, fundraising
- political eventselection, campaign, debate, rally, inauguration
- campaign costscampaign spending, ad buys, direct mail, staff salaries, travel expenses
- campaign jargonstump speech, talking points, sound bites, soundbite, soundbites
- canvassingcanvassers, knock, door knocking, door-to-door, canvass
get out the votevoter suppression
Tactics discouraging ballot access
vote suppression · voter intimidation · disenfranchisement · voter purges · poll taxes
getting, gotten, outer, outing, outermost, vote, votes, voted, voter