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Ask people to pledge their support for you

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Turning online support into action on election day

• Use your voter registration page to spur a voter registration drive. Publicize it by blogging, emailing, tweeting, and texting about it.  Use NationBuilder's built-in tracking to find your most active participants in the drive. Turn new registrants into supporters of your movement by engaging them from the get go.
   
• Use NationBuilder's useful map view to see where your new registrants are. Target areas where you have not yet registered people, or where numbers have been low. 

• Use the vote pledge page to get people to stick to their promise of showing up on election day; people are far more likely to go to the polls and vote when they have previously committed to doing so.
   
• The vote pledge page can be used to gauge your nation's support of a particular candidate or ballot initiative. Target people who have responded as unsure, find out way by creating a survey, and then engage them on the issues to try to win them over.  

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Jim Gilliam commented 2011-05-22 01:32:38 -0700

page.vote_pledge.votes_count, no_count, and unsure_count should all be in there now.

Jerimee Richir commented 2011-05-21 15:19:42 -0700

Thanks so much! I think in some contexts I could hack it with page.private_activities_count but I bet that solution has its share of problems.

Jim Gilliam commented 2011-05-21 15:15:45 -0700

Ah, I see. I will try to get it in there tomorrow.

Jerimee Richir commented 2011-05-21 14:57:45 -0700

GovTogether wants to count all votes cast, not just the yeses. http://govtogether.com/

Jim Gilliam commented 2011-05-21 14:31:03 -0700

There isn’t a no_votes_count or all_votes_count, just the yes_votes_count.

Curious.. what is the use case for wanting the others?

Jerimee Richir commented 2011-05-21 12:56:44 -0700

Is there additional documentation on this content type? I see page.vote_pledge.yes_votes_count in the template – can I use page.vote_pledge.no_votes_count or page.vote_pledge.all_votes_count?