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2022 Election Guide

Empowering Your Employees in the 2022 Election

The 2022 midterm elections will be consequential and your employees will want to have their voices heard. Below are some strategies and tools to help you maximize your corporate civic engagement and #GetOutTheVote.

Why is company support for employee voter turnout so important?

  • You can remove barriers to civic engagement
    Work commitments consistently rank as a top obstacle to voting.
  • You are a trusted messenger
    “My employer” continues to rank as one of the world’s most trusted institutions, much more than government and media.
  • You already have the communication channels
    Company communications provide the most consistent platform for sharing information across an increasingly complex — and biased — media ecosystem.

7 strategies to create a voter culture at your company

  1. Share nonpartisan, actionable resources and reminders
  2. Start sharing early so employees trust you as a resource
  3. Recognize Election Day and civic holidays as company holidays
  4. Hold registration drives and add registration reminders
  5. Highlight volunteer opportunities, like working at the polls
  6. Provide flexible “civic hours” including time off to vote
  7. Make the experience, fun, social, and celebratory

Digital tools to boost employee civic engagement

A number of tools can help you maximize your employees’ civic engagement that fit your goals, company culture, and existing tool set. The tools below can help you save time, run a more engaging program, and make a larger, measurable impact.

Time To Vote

Nearly 2000 companies across the country have joined Time To Vote, the nonpartisan, business-led movement to make sure workers never have to choose between earning a paycheck and casting their ballot. By participating, your company can contribute to the culture shift needed to increase voter turnout across the nation. To join, you simply make a commitment to ensure work schedules support your employees voting. You may also wish to encourage early voting or vote-by-mail options, offer paid time off on Election Day, or make it a day without meetings.

We’re proud to work with Time To Vote and encourage your company to join. Sign up online or contact us to get started today!

Motivote

Motivote empowers businesses, nonprofits, and colleges to run high-impact voter engagement programs that help people navigate the voting process. Backed by behavioral science, Motivote's registration-to-turnout journey has proven to increase follow-through with the same "nudge" strategies that help us go to the gym, save money, and learn new skills.

  • Walk voters through the end-to-end voting journey
  • Keep it fun and social with gamification and real-life rewards
  • Customized platform, fully aligned with your visual brand and voice

Want to know more? Contact Jess Riegel at Motivote.

BallotReady

CivicEngine by BallotReady provides a one-stop shop for voting information: making it easy for voters to register, learn about all the candidates on their ballot, sign up to vote by mail, and find their dropoff location or polling place.

  • Meaningful employee engagement: whether your customers and employees are first-time voters or politicos, BallotReady makes it easy for them to level-up their civic engagement
  • Local and evergreen: the BallotReady platform includes primaries and local elections so there’s always a way for voters everywhere to take action
  • Business-focused best practices: brands like Snap, CBSViacom, Tiktok, and Spotify use CivicEngine

Want to know more? Contact Alex Niemczewski at BallotReady.

VoteAmerica

VoteAmerica builds technology and programs to help turnout tens of millions of voters. Their mission is to provide Americans with trusted election information, open-source technology, and robust education programs to expand the electorate and increase turnout.

  • A robust toolset that allows partners to incorporate impactful turnout programs into already-existing customer and employee workflows
  • Tools for every step of the voting process: Register, Verify, Absentee Request, Polling Place Finder, Ballot Tracker, and Voter Helpline
  • Thorough election data API w/ 100+ data points per state of election rules, deadlines, and requirements

Want to know more? Contact Laurie Lenninger at VoteAmerica.

Citizen Connect

Citizen Connect has released a single, simple webpage2022 Midterm Elections Participation Guide — providing a handful of essential resources that make it easier for all Americans to have their voice heard at the ballot box. This nonpartisan platform helps Americans find ways to strengthen our democracy, without telling anyone what to think or for whom to vote. Resource links provide straightforward ways to get registered, vote smart, work the polls, and help get out the vote.

Citizen Connect is a nonpartisan front-door to over 500 organizations working to fix our politics and strengthen our democracy. The site makes it easy for everyday Americans to find the organizations, events, and content that moves them personally to civic action.

Need help with your company's approach to Election 2022? Contact us and let's talk.
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