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[[File:BoiseIdahoGOTV2012.jpg|thumb|Typical [[canvassing]] material for GOTV in the [[United States]]]]
"'''Get out the vote'''" or "'''getting out the vote'''" ('''GOTV''') describes efforts aimed at increasing the [[voter turnout]] in elections. In countries that do not have or enforce [[compulsory voting]], voter turnout can be low, sometimes even below a third of the eligible voter pool. GOTV efforts typically attempt to register voters, then get them to vote, by [[absentee ballot]], [[early voting]] or [[election day]] voting. GOTV is generally not required for elections when there are effective compulsory voting systems in place, other than perhaps to register first time voters.

There are two types of GOTV efforts. The first type is general [[voter registration campaign]]s and encouragement to vote, conducted by electoral authorities or nonpartisan organizations. The second type is partisan work targeted at potential voters who are likely to vote a particular way. For partisans it may be easier and more cost effective to encourage voting by a hundred supporters who did not vote in the past, than it is to convince fifty voters to switch support from one party to the other. This situation can lead to polarized electoral politics. A 70% turnout from a party's committed base can be better than a 50 percent turnout from both committed and marginal supporters.

== Campaign contexts ==
In contexts of the efforts of candidates, party activities and ballot measure campaigns, "get-out-the-vote" or "GOTV" is an adjective indicating having the effect of increasing the number of the campaign's ''supporters'' who will vote in the immediately approaching election.

Typically GOTV is a distinct phase of the overall campaign. Tactics used during GOTV often include: telephoning or sending [[personalized audio messages]] to known supporters on the days leading up to an election (or on election day itself), providing transport to and from polling stations for supporters, and canvassing known supporters. [[Canvassing]] for the purpose of [[voter registration]] usually ceases when GOTV begins. Other activities include literature drops early on election day or the evening before and an active tracking of eligible voters who have already voted.

GOTV can also be important in high turn-out elections when the margin of victory is expected to be close.

== Voter turnout organizations ==
In many countries, the task of [[Election commission|electoral authorities]] includes the promotion of and assisting in the registration of potential voters, and in the exercise of the right to vote. However, such efforts are not uniformly successful, and at times are partisan.

A number of voter turnout organizations have formed in an effort to "get out the vote". In the United States, such voter turnout organizations include the [[League of Women Voters]], [[Postcards To Voters]], [[Rock the Vote]], [[The Voter Participation Center]] and [[Vote.org]],<ref>((cite web|author=Last updated June 23, 2010 Share &nbsp;Email Print |url=http://www.longdistancevoter.org |title=Absentee Voting Made Easy |publisher=LongDistanceVoter.org |date=2010-06-23 |access-date=2010-06-29))</ref> which attempt to motivate  voters in targeted demographics to register and to vote.

During the [[2016 Georgian parliamentary election]], [[President of Georgia]] [[Giorgi Margvelashvili]] supported an unprecedented "get out the vote" campaign in Georgian history in terms of the scale of coverage, feedbacks, and results, a nation-wide campaign initiated by the [[Europe-Georgia Institute]] to increase involvement of youth in the elections.<ref name="liberaliYVOF">((cite web |last1=Editorial |title=President's Maxima (პრეზიდენტის მაქსიმა) |url=http://liberali.ge/articles/view/25048/prezidentis--maqsima |website=Liberali.ge |publisher=Liberali Group |access-date=9 February 2019))</ref>

Shortly before the elections the Europe-Georgia Institute started the "Your Voice, Our Future" (YVOF Campaign) in the village of ((ill|Bazaleti, Dusheti|lt=Bazaleti|ka|ბაზალეთი (დუშეთის მუნიციპალიტეტი))). President Margvelashvili and [[George Melashvili]], the head of the Europe-Georgia Institute addressed participants. Shortly after summer schools on civic engagement, political culture and "Get out the vote" campaigns were held in 10 different [[Administrative divisions of Georgia (country)|regions of Georgia]]. participants visited 20 cities and towns and held meetings with locals, describing and explaining the importance of voting. Young people planned creative activities such as [[Flash mob]]s, plays, theatre sketches and attracted media attention.<ref>((cite news |last1=Georgian |first1=Broadcaster |title=კამპანია "შენი ხმა ჩვენი მომავლია" - პრეზიდენტი ბაზალეთის საზაფხულო სკოლას ეწვია |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbWftd-mJfM  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/pbWftd-mJfM |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|access-date=9 February 2019 |agency=Georgian Broadcaster))((cbignore))</ref><ref name="liberaliYVOF"/>

The effort of these organizations is in getting people to vote and not to promote particular candidates or political view, and a group is nonpartisan if it is not directing people how to vote. Nonpartisan groups generally do not distribute literature about candidates or causes when assisting potential voters to register to vote, and also do not focus GOTV efforts on voters who are most likely to agree with their personal views.

== Reading system ==
The traditional GOTV method used in the UK is the Reading system, developed by the [[Reading (UK Parliament constituency)|Reading Constituency]] [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] and its [[Member of Parliament|MP]] [[Ian Mikardo]] for the [[1945 United Kingdom general election|1945 general election]].<ref>How to Win an Election, Paul Richards, Second Edition, p. 88</ref> Once [[canvassing]] was performed to identify likely Labour voters, these were compiled onto 'Reading pads' or 'Mikardo sheets' featuring the names and addresses of supporters and pasted onto a large table or plank of wood. On election day these lists, with identical copies underneath, were torn off and given to GOTV campaigners. Lists of this type are sometimes referred to as [[Shuttleworth (canvassing)|Shuttleworths]].

At each polling station, tellers for each party will collect the unique poll numbers of voters from their polling cards. These numbers are regularly collected from the polling stations and collated in a campaign headquarters for each ward, often referred to in the UK as a committee room. 'Promised voters' who have already voted are then crossed off the list of voters canvassed as supporting Labour. This enables campaigners to then focus more efficiently on the remainder of their supporters who have not voted. Computerisation has heralded further increases in efficiency, but nearly all subsequent methodologies can be traced back in some form to the Reading system.

== Negative campaigning and voter suppression ==
[[File:Robby Mook MD 2006 GOTV.jpg|thumb|[[Robby Mook]] get out the vote leaflet for the [[2006 Maryland gubernatorial election|Maryland gubernatorial election]]]]
The terminology reflects a distinction of GOTV from the complementary strategy of suppressing turnout among likely opposition voters. [[Political consultant|Political]] [[consultant]]s are reputed to privately advise some candidates to "go [[Negative campaigning|negative]]" (attack an opponent), without any intent to sway voters toward them: this plan is to instead increase the number of eligible voters who ''fail to vote'', because their tendency to believe "politics is inherently [[Political corruption|corrupt]]" has so recently been reinforced. Such turnout suppression can be advantageous where any combination of three conditions apply:
# The negative campaigning is targeted (by direct mail, telephone "[[push poll]]s", or the like) on likely opposing voters, reducing the collateral damage to supporters' morale.
# The side going negative has an advantage in its supporters being steadier voters than those of its opponent.
# The side going negative has an advantage in doing effective GOTV, so that its campaign workers can get a GOTV "antidote" to more supporters "poisoned" by the negative campaign, than the opposing campaign can of their own supporters.

== Vote by mail ==
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Face to face GOTV has been found to be less effective with [[vote by mail]] balloting.<ref>Arceneaux, Kevin and Kousser, Thad and Mullin, Megan, Get Out the Vote-by-Mail? A Randomized Field Experiment Testing the Effect of Mobilization in Traditional and Vote-by-Mail Precincts (2009). APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1451221</ref>

== Get out the vote in practice ==
[[File:GOTV.png|thumb|400px|Methods of raising turnout]]
Political scientists have conducted hundreds of [[field experiments]] to learn which get out the vote tactics are effective, when, and on which types of voters.<ref>((cite web |title=Get Out the Vote! |url=http://gotv.research.yale.edu/ |website=Yale University |access-date=24 October 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018102110/http://gotv.research.yale.edu/ |archive-date=18 October 2014 ))</ref> This research has revolutionized how campaigns conceive of their get out the vote efforts.<ref>((cite news|last1=Bump|first1=Philip|title=Will Democrats' ground game save their Senate majority? We asked an expert.|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/10/22/can-a-good-ground-game-help-democrats-overcome-late-polls-an-expert-weighs-in/|access-date=24 October 2014|newspaper=Washington Post|date=22 October 2014))</ref> Research also shows that voting is habit-forming, as voting in one election increases the probability of voting in a future election by 10 percentage points (controlling for other factors).<ref>((Cite journal|title = Is Voting Habit Forming? New Evidence from Experiments and Regression Discontinuities|journal = American Journal of Political Science|volume = 60|issue = 4|date = 2015-09-01|issn = 1540-5907|pages = 1044–1062|doi = 10.1111/ajps.12210|language = en|first1 = Alexander|last1 = Coppock|first2 = Donald P.|last2 = Green))</ref>

The value of GOTV is unclear, but a well-organized effort can gain a candidate as much as nine percentage points in campaigns in the United States.<ref>((cite book |last1=Nickerson |first1=David W. |last2=Rogers |first2=Todd |date=2010 |title=Do You Have a Voting Plan? : Implementation Intentions, Voter Turnout, and Organic Plan Making |url= https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/todd_rogers/files/do_you_have_a_voting_plan_0.pdf|publisher=Sage Publications|page=2 |access-date=13 May 2017))</ref> In terms of mobilization, studies have found that door-to-door canvassing increases turnout among the contacted households with approximately 4.3 percentage points, according to experts Alan Gerber and Gregory Huber in 2016<ref>((Cite journal|title = Getting Out the Vote Is Tougher Than You Think.|url = https://ssir.org/increasing_voter_turnout/entry/getting_out_the_vote_is_tougher_than_you_think|journal = Stanford Social Innovation Review|date = 2016|language = en|first1 = Alan|last1 = Gerber|first2 = Gregory A.|last2 = Huber))</ref> while a 2013 study of 71 canvasses including many that targeted low propensity voters found turnout increased by 2–3 percentage points.<ref>((Cite journal|title = Field experiments and the study of voter turnout.|journal = Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties|volume = 23|date = 2013|issn = 1745-7289|pages = 27–48|doi = 10.1080/17457289.2012.728223|language = en|first1 = Donald P.|last1 = Green|first2 = Mary C.|last2 = McGrath|first3 = Peter M.|last3 = Aronow|s2cid = 53376573))</ref> Even earlier, analysts had often concluded that personal canvassing produced far higher voter turnout rates, such as 9.8–12.8%.<ref>((Cite journal|title = The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment.|jstor = 2585837|journal = The American Political Science Review|volume = 94|issue = 3|pages = 653–663|date = 2000|language = en|first1 = Alan S.|last1 = Gerber|first2 = Donald P.|last2 = Green|doi = 10.2307/2585837|s2cid = 59034723))</ref> While most experiments have been conducted in the US, recent studies have found similar<ref>((Cite journal|title = Door-to-door canvassing in the European elections: Evidence from a Swedish field experiment|journal = Electoral Studies|volume = 45|date = 2017|issn = 0261-3794|pages = 110–118|doi = 10.1016/j.electstud.2016.12.002|language = en|first = Pär|last = Nyman|url = https://zenodo.org/record/891052))</ref> or somewhat smaller<ref>((Cite journal|title = Is Door-to-Door Canvassing Effective in Europe? Evidence from a Meta-study across Six European Countries|journal = British Journal of Political Science|volume = 49|issn = 0007-1234|pages = 279–290|doi = 10.1017/S0007123416000521|language = en|first1 = Yosef|last1 = Bhatti|first2 = Jens Olav|last2 = Dahlgaard|first3 = Jonas|last3 = Hedegaard Hansen|first4 = Kasper M.|last4 = Hansen|year = 2019|doi-access = free|hdl = 10398/e5e90992-1d21-4681-b3a5-388699f5ecff|hdl-access = free))</ref> effects in Europe.

The guide to grassroots elections ''Get Out the Vote'' determined that GOTV efforts averaged one vote every 15 door knocks by volunteers ($31 per vote), 35 phone calls by volunteers ($35 per vote), or 273 pieces of nonpartisan direct mail ($91 per vote, no effect from partisan direct mail).<ref name="green">((Cite book|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780815726852|title=Get out the vote: how to increasevoter turnout|last1=Green|first1=Donald P.|last2=Gerber|first2=Alan S.|date=2015-01-01|publisher=Brookings Institution Press|isbn=9780815726852|edition=Third|pages=97–98, 101, 120–121, 146, 158|location=Washington, D.C))</ref> They note that campaigns which experiment carefully can do better than these averages. Campaigns can raise turnout up to 8 percentage points with direct mail which tells neighbors when other neighbors have voted and promises to mail an update after the election, though people complain when they have no way to opt in or out of notification.<ref name="gerber">((Cite journal |last1=Gerber |first1=Alan S. |last2=Green |first2=Donald P. |last3=Larimer |first3=Christopher W. |date=2008-02-01 |title=Social Pressure and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment |url=https://isps.yale.edu/sites/default/files/publication/2012/12/ISPS08-001.pdf |journal=American Political Science Review |language=en |volume=102 |issue=1 |pages=33–48 |doi=10.1017/s000305540808009x |s2cid=17451965 |issn=1537-5943))</ref><ref name="green" /><ref name="rogers">((Cite journal |last1=Rogers |first1=Todd |last2=Green |first2=Donald P. |last3=Ternovski |first3=John |last4=Young |first4=Carolina Ferrerosa |title=Social pressure and voting: A field experiment conducted in a high-salience election |url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/todd_rogers/files/social_pressure.pdf |journal=Electoral Studies |volume=46 |pages=87–100 |doi=10.1016/j.electstud.2017.02.004|year=2017 ))</ref>

Other studies have found that GOTV methods contribute little to none to voter turnout. One field experiment found that GOTV phone calls were largely ineffective, and that ease of access to polling locations had the largest impact on voter turnout.<ref>((Cite thesis|last=McNulty|first=John Edward|title=Sensitivities of voter turnout: field experiments exploring effects of a variety of treatments|date=2005-01-01|url=http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url%20ver=Z39.88-2004&rft%20val%20fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res%20dat=xri:pqm&rft%20dat=xri:pqdiss:3211443))</ref>

There is also the argument that GOTV targets a more affluent demographic, which is already more likely to vote. Less politically engaged demographic and socioeconomic groups are sometimes neglected in GOTV efforts.<ref>((Cite book|url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/berkeley/Doc?id=10602425|title=Mobilizing inclusion: redefining citizenship through get-out-the-vote campaigns|last1=García Bedolla|first1=Lisa|last2=Michelson|first2=Melissa R.|author-link2=Melissa R. Michelson|date=2012-01-01|publisher=Yale University Press|series=The Yale ISPS series|location=New Haven))</ref>

GOTV is often most effective when potential voters are told to do so "because others will ask."<ref>((Cite book|url=http://uclibs.org/PID/20782/w19832|title=Voting to tell others|last=Della Vigna|first=Stefano|date=2014-01-01|publisher=National Bureau of Economic Research|series=NBER working paper series|location=Cambridge, Mass|doi=10.3386/w19832))</ref> Voters will then go to the polls as a means of fulfilling perceived societal expectations. Paradoxically, informing voters that turnout is expecting to be high was found to increase actual voter turnout, while predicting lower turnouts actually resulted in less voters.<ref>((Cite news|url=https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/research-backed-ways-get-out-vote|title=Research-Backed Ways to Get Out the Vote|newspaper=Stanford Graduate School of Business|access-date=2016-11-05))</ref>

In 2004, [[Rock the Vote]] paid to run TV ads aimed at young voters, on a random sample of small cable systems where they could measure the effects. Turnout was three percentage points higher among 18- to 19-year-olds in these sample areas than in the control group covered by other similar small cable systems; there was less effect above age 22.<ref name="vavreck">((Cite journal|author1-link=Donald P. Green |author2-link=Lynn Vavreck |last1=Green |first1=Donald P. |last2=Vavreck |first2=Lynn |date=2008 |title=Analysis of Cluster-Randomized Experiments: A Comparison of Alternative Estimation Approaches |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/31382310 |journal=Political Analysis |language=en |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=138–152 |doi=10.1093/pan/mpm025 |issn=1047-1987))</ref><ref name="green" />

In November 2012 and 2013, Rock the Vote experimented with Facebook ads to encourage voter turnout by telling people the number of days remaining until the election and which of their friends "liked" the countdown. The ads were shown to over 400,000 adults, randomly selected from a base over 800,000. Rock the Vote had helped many of them register. The ads did not increase turnout in the experimental group, compared to the control group who did not get the ads.<ref name="green" /> In 2012 they also experimented with text message reminders to 180,000 people who had provided their mobile numbers. Texts the day before the election raised turnout six tenths of a percentage point, while texts on election day lowered turnout.<ref name="green" />

Several [[mobile apps]] tell people where to vote, identify their elected officials, or search candidates' positions, though no evidence measures how much these raise turnout.<ref>((Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/opinion/increasing-voter-turnout-2018.html |title=Opinion: Increasing Voter Turnout for 2018 and Beyond |last=Rosenberg |first=Tina |date=2017-06-13 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2018-03-25 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331))</ref> Facebook apps let users see who their friends endorse, which gives them a shortcut in deciding whom to vote for.<ref>((Cite news |url=http://www.govtech.com/applications/University-at-Albany-Researchers-Create-App-to-Increase-Voter-Turnout.html |title=University at Albany Researchers Create App to Increase Voter Turnout |last=CLARK |first=DARTUNORRO |date=2015-07-23 |work=Government Technology |access-date=2018-03-25 |language=en))</ref><ref>((Cite news |url=http://nhpr.org/post/eye-local-elections-brigade-app-rolls-out-new-feature-nh#stream/0 |title=With Eye on Local Elections, "Brigade" App Rolls Out New Feature in N.H. |last=McDermott |first=Casey |date=2015-10-26 |access-date=2018-03-25 |language=en))</ref><ref>((Cite news |url=https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/254609 |title=How This App Is Making Civic Involvement Profitable |last=Ankeny |first=Jason |date=2016-02-18 |work=Entrepreneur |access-date=2018-03-25 |language=en))</ref><ref>((Cite web |url=https://www.electorate.io/faq |title=Electorate Beta |website=www.electorate.io |language=en |access-date=2018-03-25))</ref>

Studies in 2012 and 2017 found that Facebook's "I'm Voting/I'm a Voter" button increased turnout in the 2010 Congressional elections by six tenths of a percentage point,<ref name="bond">((Cite journal |last1=Bond |first1=Robert M. |last2=Fariss |first2=Christopher J. |last3=Jones |first3=Jason J. |last4=Kramer |first4=Adam D. I. |last5=Marlow |first5=Cameron |last6=Settle |first6=Jaime E. |last7=Fowler |first7=James H. |date=2012-09-13 |title=A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization |journal=Nature |volume=489 |issue=7415 |pages=295–8 |doi=10.1038/nature11421 |pmc=3834737 |pmid=22972300|bibcode=2012Natur.489..295B ))</ref> and in the 2012 presidential election by a quarter of a percentage point.<ref>((Cite journal|last1=Jones|first1=Jason J.|last2=Bond|first2=Robert M.|last3=Bakshy|first3=Eytan|last4=Eckles|first4=Dean|last5=Fowler|first5=James H.|date=2017-04-26|title=Social influence and political mobilization: Further evidence from a randomized experiment in the 2012 U.S. presidential election|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=12|issue=4|pages=e0173851|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0173851|pmid=28445476|pmc=5405916|bibcode=2017PLoSO..1273851J|issn=1932-6203|doi-access=free))</ref> It named their friends who had clicked the voting button, thus opting in and minimizing complaints. However the button only appeared on election day, so it did not let friends track and encourage each other throughout the early voting period which most states have. It has been used in many elections throughout the world since then, without clarity on which users see it, leading to concerns on how it biases turnout.<ref name="grassegger">((Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/15/facebook-says-it-voter-button-is-good-for-turn-but-should-the-tech-giant-be-nudging-us-at-all |title=Facebook says its 'voter button' is good for turnout. But should the tech giant be nudging us at all? |last=Grassegger |first=Hannes |date=2018-04-15 |work=Guardian (UK) and Das Magazin (Switzerland) |access-date=2018-04-16 |language=en))</ref>

Groups such as [[Postcards To Voters]] send handwritten postcards to potential voters ahead of elections in hopes of increasing turnout. A 2007 study showed that handwritten notes were three times as effective as machine-printed ones.<ref name="gothamist">((cite web |website=[[Gothamist]] |title=Grassroots GOTV Campaign Sends 283,000 Handwritten Postcards To New Yorkers Ahead Of State Primary |date=September 12, 2018 |last1=Basu |first1=Shumita |url=http://gothamist.com/2018/09/12/postcards_to_voters_2018.php |access-date=November 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118053530/http://gothamist.com/2018/09/12/postcards_to_voters_2018.php |archive-date=November 18, 2018 |url-status=dead ))</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Canvassing]], an integral precursor to a GOTV operation
* [[Election campaigns]]
* [[Gevald campaign]]
* [[Issue advocacy ads|Issue advocacy]]
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* [[List of democracy and elections-related topics]]
* [[Street money]]
* [[Voter registration in the United States]]

== References ==
((reflist))

== External links ==
((Commons category|Get out the vote))
* [https://www.aristotle.com/blog/2014/09/tilting-the-playing-field-voter-id-turnout/ Tilting the Playing Field: Voter ID & Turnout]
* [https://www.vote.org/voter-id-laws/ US Federal and State Voter ID Requirements]

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[[Category:Political catchphrases]]

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