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Election Resources

Empowering Your Employees

As a business leader, you have an opportunity to be a trusted source of election information for your employees as they exercise their constitutional right. Below are strategies and tools to help you maximize your corporate civic engagement and get out the vote.

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.

BallotReady

BallotReady is the nonpartisan platform that helps organizations support civic engagement in their communities. Their tools serve hundreds of organizations and help millions of people across the US register to vote, learn about every candidate and measure, sign up to vote by mail, find their polling place, and more.

Civic Center by BallotReady brings all of that under your own brand: a white labeled civic hub where your employees and customers can get every insight they need to engage with our political process, in one place.

  • Meaningful engagement, no partisan risk: Civic Center helps them take real civic action without your company ever taking a side.
  • Local and evergreen: the platform covers primaries and local elections everywhere, so there's always a way for people to participate.
  • Proven with major brands: BallotReady has worked with Levi's, CBS/Viacom, TikTok, Spotify, and hundreds of other organizations to provide nonpartisan civic engagement tools and data.

Want to give your community the civic home they deserve? Email sales@ballotready.org

Civic Alliance

The Civic Alliance is a nonpartisan coalition of businesses committed to strengthening our democracy by encouraging civic participation. Member companies work together to ensure employees, customers, and communities have the information and support they need to engage in elections and civic life.

From voter education and turnout initiatives to fostering a culture of civic responsibility in the workplace, the Civic Alliance helps the business community play a positive role in building a more inclusive and representative democracy. By joining, your company can:

Strengthen Reputation: Demonstrate corporate leadership by publicly committing to nonpartisan civic engagement.
‍Mitigate Risk: Equip your company with trusted, ready-to-use resources that support employee participation while avoiding partisanship.
‍Expand Influence: Join a community of leading businesses collaborating to amplify civic engagement and drive positive societal change.

Learn more.

Motivote

Motivote partners with employers, schools and nonprofits to help communities navigate the voting process and build civic habits. We provide both a digital "program-in-a-box" branded for your organization and wraparound planning/strategy support.
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Based in behavioral science, Motivote's user-friendly digital tool applies proven nudge strategies to help voters overcomecommon "microbarriers" like missed deadlines, busy schedules and confusion. Focused on the 'what's next' after registration, we provide personalized action roadmaps that guide voters through making plans - a strategy proven to increase turnout. A true one-stop-shop, it covers ID requirements, ballot education and more all in one place.

Data shows users vote at higher rates across all age and demographic groups, and our vote-plan reminders have a statistically positive impact.

  • Engaging, personalized, and easy to follow
  • Social, celebratory, and inclusive for non-voters
  • Actually non-partisan

For employers, Motivote is the only voter engagement resource offering single-sign-on (SSO), making it easy to drive usage and integrate the tool as a "civic benefit."
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To learn more: contact hello@motivote.us to get in touch with our team, or book a demo here.

Time To Vote

Over 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!

VoteAmerica

VoteAmerica uses technology to simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy. Americans don’t need to be convinced to vote, they need to be able to vote. VoteAmerica increases turnout by identifying and aggressively removing knowledge gaps in the voting process.

  • They have productized our knowledge by building embeddable software applications that can be integrated easily into already-existing customer and employee workflows.
  • Their software covers the full voting life cycle, from pre-registration workflows to help finding your Election Day polling place. The software is battle tested, SOC 2 certified, and HIPAA compliant.
  • They also offer a Civic Data API that provides 100+ data points per state of election rules, deadlines, and requirements. You can build your own election center for employees or customers using our data as your backbone.

VoteAmerica has extensive experience working with customer facing brands and large employers on high-impact, relatively low effort mobilization campaigns that benefit your company's brand, your customers and employees, and US democracy writ large.

Want to know more? Visit voteamericaplus.org or contact us at sales@voteamerica.com.

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