Personal Postcards to Potential Voters QUICK FACTS SHEET for GERMANY

What?
“Personal Postcards to Potential Voters” is a new Democrats Abroad get-out-the-vote campaign for the 2020 election. This simple, direct action campaign empowers a DA volunteer to easily reach out to other Democratic potential voters, motivating them to register and vote.

How?
DA volunteers write a brief, personal message on a postcard that has printed inspirational line art and lettering suitable for easy coloring. PLEASE MAKE SURE EVERY POSTCARD WRITER HAS AN INSTRUCTION
SHEET! Completed postcards are returned for central addressing, stamping, and mailing. (Only a few central volunteers with
confidentiality training handle name and address data, which will be supplied by DA Global.)

Who?
Postcards will be sent to:

• Democrats Abroad members world-wide who vote in the battleground states of AZ, CO, FL, GA, MI,
  MN, NC, OH, PA, and WI.
• Democrats Abroad members on no-email and/or no-phone lists
• Democrats living abroad that vote in battleground states identified through state voter registration lists

Why?
Person-to-person communication is the most effective way to influence behavior. A hand-colored and
a handwritten postcard is an empowering way to reach out to another individual voter, motivating them to
register, request their ballot and vote.

• Only a third of Democrats Abroad members actually vote and less than 10% of American voters
  abroad overall vote.
• If we can get more of our Democratic voters abroad to vote, we could be the margin of victory in 2020!

When?
Start writing and coloring postcards immediately! The campaign will run at least through late spring/early
summer to enable the production of tens of thousands of postcards.

What does it cost?
DA Germany will supply blank postcards, but please raise funds for postage. Every 60 cents could be one
vote! 5 euros = 3+ voters. 10 euros = 16+ voters. 20 euros = 33+ voters. Fundraising details are listed on
the attached fundraising sheet.

How many?
Yes, tens of thousands of postcards! At the DA Germany AGM, where this campaign started, 90 people took
or ordered over 6,000 postcards. Add postcarding easily to any event or have postcard parties. Color alone
or recruit family, friends, and neighbors. Only Americans should write messages and only Americans can
contribute to postage. However, anyone of any age can color! We can do this!

This is the fight of our lives. This is not a normal election.
It is a crisis and we have to act like it is a crisis.
I know you care deeply or you wouldn’t be reading this.
Together we can turn our deep caring into action.
We can win this!