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Rust Belt Rising Virtual Voter Registration Program

How we help people in our states get registered to vote from home

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RBR expanded its scope to help register voters in the last three months before the 2020 election. We partnered with Indivisible Michigan and Chicago, recruiting 3,704 volunteers and making half a million phone calls to key parts of Michigan and Wisconsin.  

Our partners, Civitech, mailed voter registration forms to 184,279 likely Wisconsin and Michigan Democrats who recently moved. To follow up on those mailings, we made more than 250,000 calls and sent 163,000 texts following up on those mailings to 70,000 Wisconsin and 40,000 Michigan voters to whom we could match phone numbers so we encourage them to complete their registration and assist with any questions.

42,830 of our targets registered to vote.

7,752 registered through the exact application we mailed them, and the rest through online registration, which we helped with over the phone or in person.

23,875 Wisconsin voters registered—more than the 20,682 Biden/Harris won the state by.

18,955 Michigan voters registered. Our partners, Statewide Indivisible Michigan, named our project 8 Million Michigan Voters for their vision of the state reaching that number of registered voters, and together, we contributed to Michigan’s reaching that figure.

Our project was featured by Pod Save America’s Adopt a State program in their emails to volunteers from around the country who signed up to help win Michigan and Wisconsin.

Once we completed our voter registration project, we made another 250,000 calls to get out the vote for Rising state candidates and the whole ticket in Michigan and Wisconsin.  

We launched a new Wisconsin voter registration program in 2022 that targeted 85,497 Wisconsin targets.

We recruited 400 volunteers with Indivisible Chicago Alliance who called every single target and texted
them twice to “chase” the mailing by helping them register to vote.

We are proud of the difference this voter registration program made in a state as close and crucial as Wisconsin.

Join us for our critical 2024 chase for Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, which will aim to be our biggest and most impactful yet for our democracy!