15 Jun Taking the Primaries by Storm: How MRNV Helped the Community This Election Season
The results are in and the Make the Road Nevada familia couldn’t be happier with the voter turnout at this year’s Primary election. After weeks of strategic planning between staff, members, and volunteers, we have now wrapped up the election season with success.
Over the course of several months, MRNV provided the community with many voting-related resources to ensure everyone was not only informed on how to vote and why it’s important—but what are their rights while doing it, too. This year, our focus was to engage voters who are traditionally marginalized and excluded, which includes the Latinx, immigrant and multi-racial communities.
From May 31st to Election Day (June 14th), MRNV and volunteers took to the streets to canvas, going door-to-door to increase voter engagement. We spoke with many folks and provided them with informative literature, building relationships in these diverse communities. At the end of our efforts, we accomplished 3,888 successful door knocks and 4,515 attempts.
Aside from canvassing, MRNV and volunteers also phone banked. We provided information such as voting laws/rights, same day voter registration, and polling locations. The phone banking team made 22,953 phone calls and 53,7444 text messages. Way to go, familia!
With such success, we look forward to continuing our efforts and gaining positive wins for our community this coming November!