New Pathbreaking Research Identifies Effective Strategies for Increasing Voter Turnout in Low-Income and Ethnic Communities
The James Irvine Foundation today released a pathbreaking new report detailing best practices for increasing voter turnout in low-income and ethnic communities. The research documented in the report indicates that rather than the more-typical mailers and prerecorded phone calls, quality personal contact is the key to reaching these underrepresented groups.
The report, “New Experiments in Minority Voter Mobilization,” notes how the application of these successful tactics could result in even greater participation from underrepresented communities in November 2008.
“We cannot have a well-functioning democracy if the political debate lacks voices from the full spectrum of our state’s diverse population,” said Amy Dominguez-Arms, California Perspectives Program Director for The James Irvine Foundation. “It is our hope that the best practices discovered by this research will inform future outreach efforts and thereby improve the representation of underrepresented communities at the ballot box.”
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