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Needed: Volunteers to Write Postcards to New Voters for 2025 November Elections [1]
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Date: 2025-07-22
For the last 3 years, Hope Springs has recruited volunteers to send postcards to our New Voters project. These are voters who get almost no kinds of communications from campaigns (because new voters don’t have a voter history). This year’s effort focuses on the statewide (gubernatorial) elections in New Jersey and Virginia as well as the mayoral election in New York City.
If you can volunteer to write post cards, specifically in batches of 25 for 2 rounds (the first timed to arrive before Early Voting begins and the second timed to arrive by Saturday, November 1, 2025), please sign up here:
2025 Hope Springs from Field New Voter Reg. Post Cards Sign Up
Early Voting begins in Virginia on Friday, September 19, 2025. Early Voting for New Jersey and New York City begins Saturday, October 25, 2025. (Early Voting concludes in Virginia on Saturday, November 1, 2025 and concludes in New Jersey and New York City on Sunday, November 2, 2025.) The focus on these specific postcards are New Voters registered for the first time in the voter file who are young (18-25 years old) with preference going first to newly registered Democrats and, then, if enough volunteers sign up, Unaffiliated/No Party voters or Independents. We will provide you with a list of names before Labor Day. We can also say that we start first with New Voters in the areas where Hope Springs volunteers have been canvassing before spreading out to the rest of the state (we have not canvassed in New York City, so volunteers who sign up for NYC will just start from the top of the list we get from the voter file). First Round postcard These are intended to be first contact communications, reminding people they are registered to vote and that there’s an important election approaching. The critical point is that most campaigns exclude them from their own voter outreach efforts because of the low percentages in which new voters — and especially young voters — actually turnout to cast ballots. And the fact is that new voters, the ones who have yet to make voting a real habit, are the ones who need the most attention. We don’t provide wording for volunteers to use on their post cards, specifically because of the reaction that voters in Georgia had in the 2021 Senate runoffs to repeat verbage on the different postcards they received. But we do ask that volunteers remind voters in the First postcard that Early Voting, Vote By Mail (VBM) or Absentee Ballots is beginning and the Second/Final postcard mention the approaching Election Day (November 4th). There are plenty of Democratic groups who are organizing the writing of post cards to likely voters. That’s not what we are doing. What Hope Springs from Field PAC is focused on are young, newly registered voters, in New Jersey, Virginia and New York City.
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