Assessing the Effects of Friend-to-Friend Texting on Turnout in High-Salience Elections

• In Event: Understanding GOTV and Voter Mobilization Efforts

Brief Overview

We present two large field experiments evaluating friend-to-friend text messaging campaigns to raise voter turnout in the November 2020 presidential election and the 2021 Georgia special, two unusually high-salience contests.

Authors

• Aaron Schein, Columbia University

• Donald P. Green, Columbia University

• David Blei, Columbia University