voter mobilization
Getting people voting
Voter mobilization is the organized effort to encourage people to vote, especially those who might otherwise stay home.
It includes activities like door-knocking, phone banking, providing rides to polls, and targeted outreach to specific communities.
Political campaigns and advocacy groups engage in mobilization to increase turnout among their supporters: The campaign's voter mobilization efforts focused on young people and first-time voters.
- canvassingSystematic direct voter outreach
- votersThose who cast ballots
- campaign ralliesPublic candidate support events
- grassroots organizingLocal citizen-led collective action
- coalition buildingCreating partnerships among groups
town hall meetings · persuasion techniques · activists · elections · election monitoring · television commercials · battleground states · doorknocking · door hangers · local partnerships · precinct · get-out-the-vote · ground game · rally · ballot · phone · press releases · polls
- voter turnoutturnout, turnout rate, high turnout, low turnout, participation rate
- electionsballot, ballots, candidates, polls, election day
- LGBTQ+ rightsgay rights, equal rights, lesbian rights, transgender rights, LGBTQ+ rights
- recall electionsrecall election, recall petition, recall vote, recall campaign, removal from office
voter mobilizationvoter suppression
Tactics discouraging ballot access
vote suppression · voter intimidation · disenfranchisement · voter disenfranchisement · poll taxes
voter mobilizationvoter apathy
Lack of electoral participation
political apathy · non-participation · voter fatigue · nonvoting · disaffection