Phone bank
Thank you phone bankers!
Thank you to the hundreds of phone bankers who called with us last year. You helped us hold on to Senate seats in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin; and you helped us flip some key House races, including Adam Gray’s win in CA-13 by just 187 votes.
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As a DVC subscriber, you’ll receive emails with phone banking opportunities so you’ll always know when you have a chance to make a difference. To subscribe:
- Go to our volunteer form here
- Fill in your email, name, phone, and zip code
- Click Sign Up
We’ll keep you informed about campaigns you can call for and how to get training and support for phone banking.
Have questions? Email help@demvolctr.org.
About phone banking
Phone banking is a particularly important way to connect with voters in swing districts and states. It allows large numbers of volunteers in one state, such as California, to help Democratic candidates in crucial races across the US.
As a volunteer, you will receive training and have the necessary tools, information, and help you need. In many cases you can make calls from your home at times that are convenient for you (taking into account the time zone of the voters being called). Contrary to popular belief, enough voters do pick up the phone to make your efforts significant. Many races are won by very small margins; you will make a critical difference with every voter that you engage and turn out.
What is phone banking?
A phone bank is a coordinated effort by a campaign to talk with voters, using official state and local voter lists to decide who to call. These are lists of registered voters along with other information that the organization has obtained from past campaigns.
We make calls:
- To encourage people to register, complete ballots, and vote for Democrats.
- To find volunteers.
- But especially to gather data for future action.
Every call is a good call!
- All data is good! Even the bad and the ugly data helps.
- Data from voters who do not like our candidate is a Good Call.
- Wrong or disconnected numbers are Good Calls.
- Finding out a voter is deceased is sad, but the call itself is a Good Call.
Why is this good?
- We’re cleaning the lists to prepare for GOTV (Get Out the Vote).
- GOTV is typically the final days of the campaign when we call/knock on doors of every voter who’s been identified as a supporter.
- We need supporters to vote, and your calls tell us who to focus on.
Why phone bank early?
- Early voter engagement is key!
- Next to knocking on doors, phone banking is the most effective way to reach voters.
- We must clean up the voter lists before the final Get Out the Vote stretch by identifying both supporters and non-supporters.
- Many voters may not have been contacted in a while and we need to make sure our voter lists are up to date.