This Election Season, We're Robocalling People
If political campaigns can pester you in the run-up to an election, why can't your local public radio station? WNYC is taking on a different sort of election project this year -- gathering tips and tricks from political operatives and putting them to work for our own campaign: to get people to vote. We're doing robocalls, mailings, knocking on doors, and more… Who knows if it will work, but if we can convince just a few more people to get to the polls, it'll be worth it.
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WNYC's Jody Avirgan and Brigid Bergin visit the Bronx neighborhood of Morris Park to talk to registered non-voters.
In this segment, two seasoned political consultants, Shayna Englin of Mercury LLC and Rasheida Smith of Dunton Consulting talk about who votes, why they vote, and how campaigns try to target voters efficiently. They give advice to WNYC's Jody Avirgan, the "Just Vote Already" campaign-staff-of-one. He'll take their advice and use it in our test district, the Morris Park neighborhood of The Bronx.
Hear The Robocalls We'll Be Using To Target Voters
Big thanks to Jenny Hagel for helping write some of these scripts.
