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  2. About Postcarding
  3. How to Participate
  4. Schedule
  5. Resources
  6. Notes for our Primary Postcarding volunteers:

About Postcarding

Join us in talking to every climate concerned person we know about voting in the upcoming elections! For the WI Climate Voter Campaign, we are using three methods to reach out to environmental voters: postcarding, climate voter conversations, and phone banking.

Sending handwritten postcards is a proven way to increase voter turnout, and that’s what the postcarding team does! Our postcards go to a list of 20,000 eligible Wisconsin voters who are strong environmental supporters yet have not been active voters in the past. There is no political message beyond simply asking for participation in the voting process.  We will mail postcards to them twice: once before the August 13, 2024 primary and once before the general election on November 5.

The advantages of postcarding include:

  • Efficiency: We use two short scripted sentences that have been proven to be most effective in mobilizing people to vote.
  • Accessibility: Volunteers can write postcards anywhere and anytime, at home or in a postcarding party.
  • Connection: We can connect with others by organizing postcarding parties and letting them know about the work of Citizens’ Climate Lobby.
  • Repetition: We will reach people who won’t respond to our phone banking calls.  

The initial 20,000 postcards for the August 13th primary have already been mailed. We are now working on the November 5th general election.

How to Participate

  • General Election: If you would like to write postcards for the November 5th election, contact your local CCL chapter or CCLwisco@gmail.com for information about postcarding parties that may be in your area, or email CCLwisco@gmail.com to receive a packet of at least 100 postcards. 
  • Important note: We provide the postcards and the list of people. You provide the postage. Postcard stamps are 56 cents each, so be sure to budget your money as well as your time as you decide how many cards you can do. 
  • Read the instructions for postcarding for the details about the message and the system.
  • A caution about postage: Note that many counterfeit stamps are available online for cut-rate prices. The postal service is cracking down on counterfeit stamps and may refuse to mail those counterfeited stamped postcards (they use special inks to tell the difference).

Schedule

  • August to mid-October, 2024: Obtain general Election Postcards, complete and hold until October 15th. 
  • October 15, 2024: Mail the General Election Postcards exactly on this date. 

Resources

Notes for our Primary Postcarding volunteers:

  • If you participated in the primary election postcarding and plan to continue your participation in the general election, please retain the names and address lists you were sent (hardcopy if you printed the lists, as well as electronic copy). You will use these same names and addresses for the next general election postcards, available around June 1. You will be able to change the number of postcards from the original though this will increase the complexity of getting you new names or recycling unused names. The general election post cards will have an easily identifiable different look to avoid confusion.
  • Ideas for finding more postcarding volunteers:
    • Email all your local CCL chapter members
    • Family and friends (review your phone and email contact lists)
    • Church Environmental Justice or Social Action Committees
    • Local environmental groups such as Sustainability Committees, Audubon, Sierra Club, 350.org, Wild Ones, League of Conservation Voters, Green Fire
    • Local Colleges, High School Environmental Clubs
    • Senior Centers