[GPSCC-chat] Registrations by party in Santa Clara County

[Spencer Graves]

Hi, Valerie, et al.:


On 9/10/2012 2:43 AM, Valerie D. Face wrote:
> Hi Spencer, all,
>
> I like the idea of a mailing to some of the voters with no party preference!

       As our treasurer once said, "We too wee."  Our bank balance last 
month was just over $2,180.94.  At $0.50 per piece, we can mail to 4,361 
people if we devote our entire bank balance to that.  We could mail to 
all 4,112 registered Greens, tell them about the Jill Stein event and 
solicit donations so we can mail to some with "No Party Preference".


       I suggest we try first email to registered Greens, hyping Jill 
Stein while soliciting $ AND explaining what we plan to do with the 
money -- e.g., mail to "No Party Preference".  We can then follow that 
with phone calls and with considering snail mail to all registered 
Greens with no physical mailing address.


       If we send anything via US Postal Service, we need to be 
meticulous about collecting the mail that comes "return to sender" and 
entering that into CiviCRM.  We should probably do the same with emails.


       It would also be wise, I think, to try to email to all the "No 
Party Preference" -- with a somewhat different message than what we send 
the Greens.


       Your comments about timing suggests we should have been putting a 
major effort into this for some time.  But then, that's always true ;-)


       Best Wishes,
       Spencer

> One thing we should bear in mind is that absentee ballots get sent out on or around October 7 and voters begin to send them back about a week later.  It would be good to know the breakdown of permanent absentees vs. non-absentees in our target population.  The absentees are probably more than 60% overall.
>
> There's also the possibility that some of the non-absentees may have signed up to be absentees between May 30 and now.  Perhaps not a lot of them, but some.
>
> FYI, here's an article, "Early Ad Barrage Coming As Mail-In Ballots Change Elections," that I found while searching for info on when absentee ballots go out.  It talks about how the timing of election advertising and (formerly) "October Surprise" revelations is changing due to the high number of absentee voters.
>
> http://www.smmirror.com/articles/election/Early-Ad-Barrage-Coming-As-Mail-In-Ballots-Change-Elections/35426
>
> Best wishes,
> Valerie
>
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> ---------- Original Message ----------
> Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 21:21:50 -0700
> From: Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com>
> To: GPSCC <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
> Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Registrations by party in Santa Clara County
>
> Hello, All:
>
>
>         Jim Doyle went (twice) to the Office of the Registrar of Voters
> for Santa Clara County to get the data on registered voters, most
> recently on May 30.  From that list, I get a tally by party; see below.
> That list contains information on 341,611 Democrats, 212,636 "No Party
> Preference", 174,102 Republicans, 15,151 American Independent, 4,112
> Greens, 4,057 Libertarians, and 1,800 Peace & Freedom, plus roughly
> 1,200 people in 21 other parties, 4 of which have only one registered
> voter in Santa Clara County.  Jim suggested it would be nice to send
> something to the 212,636 people with "No Party Preference".  If we tried
> a mailing, at $0.45 for a stamp and $0.05 for paper and envelop, that's
> $100,000.  "We too wee" for that, as Jim noted.
>
>
>         Comments?
>         Best Wishes,
>         Spencer
>
>
>                         Democratic              No Party Preference
>                             341611 212636
>                         Republican             American Independent
>                             174102 15151
>                              Green Libertarian
> 4112                             4057
>                  Peace and Freedom                     Reform Party
> 1800                              892
>                        Natural Law              Rock And Roll Party
> 292                               39
>                         Free Party                       Whig Party
> 36                               35
>                 Constitution Party                    La Raza Unida
> 28                               25
>               U.S. Taxpayers Party         American Christian Party
> 19                               18
>                       Conservative Prohibition
> 17                               14
>                           Populist Socialist
> 10                                9
>                           Humanist   American Nationalist Socialist
> 8                                6
>                      Justice Party                  Communist Party
> 5                                2
>                         Open Party Moderate Party (fmr Cal Mod Pty)
> 1                                1
>                    Christian Party Centalist
> 1                                1
>

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Spencer Graves, PE, PhD
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