November’s Successful “Spread Out The Vote” and “Get Out The Vote” Strategy Delivering Again
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 28, 2020
Contact: Sahil Mehrotra, smehrotra@americavotes.org
Ahead of next Tuesday’s critical runoff elections, the America Votes Georgia coalition of 60+ state partners is completing a massive voter mobilization campaign to turn out a progressive majority.
America Votes Georgia State Director Leslie Small said, “Our diverse coalition is focused on ‘Spreading Out The Vote’ — encouraging as many Georgians as possible to request an absentee ballot and to vote early in-person, to allow for short lines and social distancing at the polls on Election Day.”
America Votes President Greg Speed said, “Our coalition successfully used the ‘Spread Out The Vote’ strategy this November, ensuring Georgians had their voice heard safely and securely, and we’re doing it again for the runoffs, where 2.1 million people have already cast ballots.”
“The key to our turnout program is a massive door-to-door canvass mobilizing voters across Georgia. Our coalition has already made 5.8 million safe door knocks and had over 1.7 million conversations at the doors about the importance of these races and how to safely vote in the runoff election. We’ve never seen conversation rates this high and this incredible level of activity in the field is poised to make the difference on January 5th” said Speed.
Since November 4, the America Votes Georgia coalition has helped nearly 120,000 Georgians apply for absentee ballots to safely vote from home. The coalition’s turnout efforts have been layered with other modes, with partners making over 13.7 million phone calls and sending over 15.6 million text messages, on top of efforts to reach voters through digital ads, TV ads, and relational organizing.
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The cast of VEEP plus special guests will reunite for a fundraiser benefiting AMERICA VOTES and their work to educate and turn out voters for the upcoming Georgia Runoff. The cast will include Julia Louis-Dreyfus (President Selina Meyer), Anna Chlumsky (Amy Brookheimer), Reid Scott (Dan Eagan), Sam Richardson (Richard Splett), Tony Hale (Gary Walsh), Timothy Simons (Jonah Ryan), Clea DuVall (Marjorie Palmiotti), Matt Walsh (Mike McLintock), Gary Cole (Kent Davison), Sarah Sutherland (Catherine Meyer), David Mandel (Executive Producer and Showrunner), and several special guests.
Click here to see the video below to hear more from Julia Louis Dreyfus about the event.
On Sunday, December 6th at 8PM EST, the original VEEP cast plus special guests will participate in a LIVE virtual table read of the uncut script to the Emmy® nominated episode “Mother” written by Alex Gregory and Pete Huyck. Go to www.showupforgeorgia.com TODAY to reserve your ticket to see VEEP Uncut – anyone in the United States can watch and participate for a minimum $1 donation.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus and David Mandel released the following statement:
“The cast of Veep had so much fun coming together during the election that we were looking for something else to do. Luckily, there are two runoff elections in Georgia so we decided to get together again and bring some friends. And if this goes well, we are hoping for a second runoff, maybe in March.”
America Votes President, Greg Speed and America Votes-Georgia Deputy State Director, Ashley Robinson released the following statement:
“Georgia’s most racially and generationally diverse electorate turned out in historic numbers in the November election. Now, America Votes and a coalition of incredible Georgia-based groups are working to remake history two months later by turning out voters again for January’s runoff elections that will determine control of the U.S. Senate.
“America Votes and our Georgia partner groups will be hard at work through the holidays to register voters, re-enroll them to vote by mail, and to turn them out for in-person early voting and Election Day on January 5th. We saw the huge impact of this organizing in Georgia in November and we can see it again in January if we support the groups and organizers doing this critical work.
“America Votes is so grateful that the VEEP cast is reuniting to support our Georgia coalition’s incredible organizers working to make history again in these critical runoff elections. This cast reunion event will help ensure that Georgia groups have the resources they need to engage and mobilize voters by phone, by text, in the mail and by having conversations through safe, contactless door-to-door canvassing. VEEP’s reunion is supporting the work that makes our democracy work.”
For all press inquiries, please contact Sahil Mehrotra at smehrotra@americavotes.org.
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