Million-Strong Army Of Environmental Super Voters Recruits In 2 Red States

"The Environmental Voter Project is expanding to Louisiana and Nebraska ahead of key state elections."

"Over six years ago, Nathaniel Stinnett set out to rally an “army of environmental super voters” who would be capable of influencing U.S. lawmakers at all levels of government to pass legislation to cut emissions as effectively as the National Rifle Association dictates the nation’s gun laws.

The veteran campaign strategist’s Environmental Voter Project has contacted more than 8.7 million registered voters in 17 states who rarely if ever cast ballots, and has persuaded more than 1 million to pull the lever in each of their most recent federal, state and local elections since. And that’s only based on data that go through 2021; the nonpartisan group’s voter files aren’t yet updated to reflect the turnout from last year’s midterm election.

Stinnett’s organization is not taking a break in 2023, even though it’s not a national election year.

“We don’t take odd years off,” Stinnett said. “No one else is mobilizing these low-propensity voters in city council primaries and library trustee elections. We take habit formation very seriously, and the only way we get these great cumulative results is by paying attention to the boring elections.”

The next two states it’s expanding into are anything but dull: Louisiana and Nebraska."

Alexander C. Kaufman reports for HuffPost February 8, 2023.

 

Source: HuffPost, 02/09/2023