Getting People to Vote #
March 10th, 2008 | In Worth Knowing
The most effective way: shame.
[S]end out letters telling people whether they and their neighbors have voted in past elections and promising to send a followup letter after the election. The unsubtle message is: voting records are public information, and if you don’t vote this year your neighbors will know about it. So do your civic duty, dammit.
Result: turnout among those who got the letters was a whopping 8.1 percentage points higher than the control group.