sonia | Last minute election action

Movement.vote has sent me few enough and reasonable enough (no caps lock, no panic mongering) emails since I first donated, that I have stayed on their list. I got an email today saying that many people are wondering what we can do to affect election results at this late date, and what we can do is donate to their on the ground get out the vote efforts.

And hey, it worked. I thought about it, and I donated.

Convincing email text:
Winning Wisconsin: The Power of Late Money
The Harris campaign has raised well over $1 billion, and billions more are going to TV ads — but local voter organizations turning out the hardest-to-reach voters still need funding to scale up their turnout operations in these final few days.

Any money you give now will get to our partners on the ground by Monday at the latest. (Our team is checking as we speak if we can move it even sooner.)

If you ever doubted whether late money makes a difference, read this update I got last night from Reema Ahmad, MVP’s State Advisor in the pivotal swing state of Wisconsin:

Yesterday we got several SOS text messages and calls from partners: While turnout across Wisconsin is up, turnout at one of Milwaukee’s largest early voting sites was down 40 percent.

This intel put 11th-hour planning and funding into motion with partners like Black Leaders Organizing Communities (BLOC), Power to the Polls, and many more.

I wasn’t sure we had the resources to still move any money to the field. But thanks to our last-minute fundraising and nimble grantmaking, we were able to get resources out the door!

This last-minute funding means:

- 100 more canvassers will be hired and deployed by Election Day.
- 125K more calls will be made to voters who haven’t cast their ballots yet.
- 3 days of “knock and drag” to the polls started yesterday, pushing through the last couple days of early voting in Milwaukee.

MVP Wisconsin Advisor, Reema Ahmad, canvassing with Black Leaders Organizing Communities (BLOC) ambassadors

In a state that Biden won in 2020 by less than 21,000 votes, this last-minute funding could make the difference between winning and losing.

I personally can’t believe what a privilege it is to know that we can still make a difference at this 11th hour. Let’s seize the opportunity while we still can.

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