Forward,

Next Tuesday is election day in Miami-Dade. There are two special elections. 

This week, we are hosting daily phone banks to GOTV for Johnny Farias. Please sign up here and share with your networks!

For questions, contact Campaign Manager Manuel Ernesto Gutierrez at [email protected].

But don't wait to collect petitions. We have until December 31, 2023 to collect petitions for the abortion ballot initiative! You can join the Floridians for Reproductive Freedom’s Neighbor to Neighbor program and start canvassing your neighborhood immediately! 

First, get in touch with your local county Democratic Party to coordinate your efforts! Then, join our organizing app Reach. You will be able to just type in your street name in the Search screen of the Reach App and you will see all of the voters on your street.

You can knock on doors and record whether they have signed the petition and all of the responses will be immediately synced to VAN. Click here to review the step by step process and start collecting petitions in your neighborhood! 

We encourage you to join our campaign by creating a community service event during the first 12 days of December. Share your photos for a shout out, and to encourage others to give back!

We will uplift photos of Dems giving back to their communities and encouraging others to join us in service. Submit your photos to join our campaign with a brief description, including your name or group name to [email protected] with subject line "12 Days of Service."

For more suggestions, click here. 

Unregistered Voter Data: We are working with vendors as well as the DNC in preparation for launching our Voter Registration program on January 2024. We will be obtaining updated unregistered voter data that contains addresses, emails, and phone numbers for each county in Florida. The geocoded data will be available in VAN for canvassing as well as phone banking and texting via activist codes. If you are interested in collaborating, coordinating, and supporting our data acquisition efforts for unregistered voter data, please email Kris at [email protected]. 

DEC Chairs: If you have not scheduled your voter registration plan meeting with our staff, please do so so we can work together to develop your plan for the next year. For counties who have submitted VR Grant Proposals, we will use your plan as a starting point. Book your meeting now.

REACH Trainings:

2023 Reach Training Schedule

REACH - UPDATE ON LEGAL GUIDANCE: Regarding the use of personal and organizational devices to register voters. We are glad to have worked out a policy to ensure we are empowering Democrats on the ground to register voters. Please see updated policy here.

Would you like to join our FDP Reach Trainers Group? We are meeting every Friday during lunchtime to discuss the implementation and rollout of Reach throughout Florida in preparation for our full launch in 2024. Interested in joining? Email [email protected] to get plugged in.

In order to achieve our goal to reduce the voter registration gap by 35% in 2024, we need to work together. We are asking all DEC’s to appoint a Voter Registration Coordinator for your county as well as a Reach Coordinator/Admin. They can be the same person or could be two individual people.

These skilled individuals will work directly with our Voter Registration Director to execute the voter registration plan for their county. Please fill out the VAN Training Survey to let us know who your Voter Registration Coordinator will be.

We are working with the FL Data Director Council to form an integrated and unified data infrastructure and we need to ensure we have at least 1 Data Coordinator per county so that our DEC’s have the support they need with all things data. Please fill out the VAN Training Survey to let us know who your Data Coordinator(s) will be.

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