Vote For America
CauseNET
July 1, 2004
Today Common Cause launches a new campaign to bring tens of thousands of new voters to the polls on Election Day. Vote for America is a grassroots non-partisan effort that engages people from all walks of life in a shared campaign to increase voter turnout. Using the proven strategy of person-to-person contact, Vote for America volunteers inspire their friends, family, and colleagues to make a personal commitment to vote by signing a Pledge to Vote card.
The Vote for America campaign is important, because there is a real problem today with how few Americans use their power as citizens to make their voices heard in the polling booth. Voter turnout in America has declined steadily for four decades. In fact, only half of eligible Americans voted in the 2000 presidential election and only 39% voted in 2002.
We need your help to begin to turn this disturbing trend around. Volunteer to talk to people you know about why voting is important and ask them to make a promise to you that they will vote. Help those who make this commitment to overcome their reservations about registering or voting, and make sure they get to the polls on Election Day, Tuesday, November 2, 2004.
You can help by recruiting volunteers and running Pledge to Vote, voter registration, and get out the vote drives.
We can help you. We have put all kinds of useful tools and resources on our website: www.commoncause.org/VoteForAmerica. Everything you need to be successful is there.
The Vote for America strategy really works. In a pilot project in Rhode Island during the 2000 elections, Vote for America brought thousands of new voters to polls, raising overall turnout by 5.6% and youth participation by 41%! We want to repeat this success all across America.
But we cannot do this without YOU. Take the Pledge to Vote and volunteer to get as many of your friends and colleagues to take the Pledge with you.
Visit: http://www.commoncause.org/VoteForAmerica
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