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Tonight (Monday): Quick Report on Hope Springs GOTV in Ohio [1]

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Date: 2023-08-07

Today is the deadline for mailing back absentee ballots. Ballots must be postmarked by today’s date. We do have a list of voters who told us they had absentee ballots, but it’s not a long list. Under a hundred now. They received phone calls from our out-of-state volunteers who need a break from cutting (driving) turf for tomorrow’s runners.

Yesterday, i reported that 562 volunteers came out to knock on doors. We knew that they had taken out turf equal to 46,308 doors. Today we see that the number is more like 39,174 doors. This may change but that’s what is in VAN right now.

578,961 Ohioans have voted early . We have no idea, yet, what to expect on Election Day. What we know is that we have to complete our GOTV plan, as it gives us the best chance for victory. We’ve been calling volunteers to remind them of the shifts they signed up for this weekend, and i did have a couple of people ask if they were still needed. Hell, yes! Run scared, like victory requires you to give everything you’ve got. I know i do.

Our GOTV universe is now 31,844 households but we know that some of these voters have voted early. People who have voted have been removed and we are hoping that VAN reports a big drop in this number before we cut turf for Tuesday.

Today was our fourth day of GOTV Week here in Ohio . This is an intermediate report about today’s efforts. Numbers are not final so i do expect some change between what gets reported here and what goes into the regular diary on this weekend’s effort in Ohio.

Tonight, we have 322 volunteers who will be hanging door hangers at the doors of voters who we have identified as Issue 1 opponents. We are really pushing the last opportunity to drive out the vote. Part of the reason why we are going out tonight, though, is to help our runners tomorrow find houses. Election day really is hectic, and we aim to knock on doors where we don’t know they have voted up to four times. So tonight, drivers will be taking more detailed notes about homes where they have issues finding the door (or home or street etc). These notes will not only be available to door knockers tomorrow, but also for the drivers who will transport voters who need it to the polls. This is the suburbs, though, and we don’t really anticipate a lot of that.

Tomorrow we have 532 volunteers signed up for our Election Day Blitz. We’ll have a morning shift and an afternoon shift. 27 of our out-of-state volunteers are staying through Election Day (they are not included in the 532 number). A handful will stay to help with Ballot Curing, until the election is called. Most of us are hoping that it is called tomorrow night.

Tomorrow’s volunteers will be driving from house to house of known opponents to Issue 1, knocking on doors and asking those who open their doors if they have voted yet. We will endeavor to knock non-voter’s doors four times (twice a shift), unless they have voted. Those who say they voted will be struck from the list. There are two shifts, those who will run down voters from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and those who signed up for the 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. shift. We have discouraged people from signing up for both shifts, but some have. It’ll be a very long day!

We will be doing Ballot Curing until the vote is called. We have been doing test runs of this for 2 weeks and we feel really prepared for the next week!

And we continue our special outreach to New Voters (and not just new voters Hope Springs volunteers registered). We are reminding those who recently registered using a paper form or updated their registration must provide additional identification for the first time this year: either an Ohio driver’s license, ID number or the last four digits of their Social Security number.

We are asking for your help here. Our primary expenses for this grassroots-driving effort is VAN (the voter file Democrats use) and literature. Expanding our efforts — hitting more doors — means we have to pay more for VAN. We also need to provide clipboards for our volunteers, since we use the Issues Survey as a guide and we like volunteers to show voters the survey, as well as have something for voters to support Constituent Service Request forms when they fill out one.

If you are able to donate to our efforts to fight against Issue 1, identify abortion rights supporters, protect our voters, especially in minority communities, expand the electorate, please help:

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/hope4ohio

If you would rather send a check, you can follow that link for our mailing address at the bottom of the page. Thank you for your support. This work depends upon you!

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