New Website: Urban Voters Campaign

Posted by on October 15, 2004

With less than a month remaining before the November 2nd election, the Institute for the Study of Civic Values has launched a new Philadelphia web site aimed at supporting Get Out the Vote efforts throughout the City.

The web address is http://www.urbanvoters.org.

The web site challenges the people of Philadelphia to raise voter turnout in the Presidential election by 10%–from roughly 553,000 votes in 2000 to more than 608,000 this year. This would be the first time that more than 600,000 Philadelphia residents have voted in a Presidential election since 1992.

To assist in this effort, the Institute has posted a downloadable spreadsheet to the web site that shows the voting totals for every ward and division in the 2000 election, as well as the number of votes in each division that canvassers will need to achieve a 10% turnout throughout the city.

For those who simply want to see what a 10% turnout would require in their own voting divisions, the web site offers an online database that enables canvassers to enter a specific ward and division and instantly receive its 2000 voting statistics and target for 2004.

For those who don’t know their ward and division, the web site provides quick access to the Census Bureau’s database that provides this information by address.

This is the most extensive election data ever made available to the public on the Internet and an invaluable resource to get out the vote campaigns throughout Philadelphia.

The web site also provides quick access to the get-out-the-vote web pages from the major parties and independent organizations, as well as online information about the major candidates and election issues. It also includes access to the major online services tracking election polls between now and November 2nd.

For those who want ongoing support in their get out the vote efforts, the Institute has established a non-partisan email list that will provide new information about the Urban Voters Campaign up to and including November 2nd.

For more information about the Urban Voters Campaign, contact Ed Schwartz at 215-238-1434 or via email at edcivic@libertynet.org

Ed Schwartz, Institute for the Study of Civic Values, 1218 Chestnut St., Rm. 702, Philadelphia, Pa. 19107 215-238-1434 edcivic@libertynet.org

ISCV web site: http://www.iscv.org
Also Check out “Neighborhoods Online” at http://www.neighborhoodsonline.net.
Or in Philadelphia: http://www.phillyneighborhoods.org

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–G.K. Chesterton