Summary

The set of methods campaigns use to reach individual voters — door-knocking, phone-banking, peer-to-peer texting, relational organising, mail, and get-out-the-vote (GOTV) operations.

Body

The modern voter-contact menu: door-knocking (the gold standard for relational depth, especially when done through volunteer-led walks), phone-banking (volunteer or vendor; declining per-contact cost-effectiveness outside competitive races), peer-to-peer texting (high open rates, conversational, low-cost; rules vary by jurisdiction), relational organising (leveraging existing social networks through volunteer texters and call tools), targeted mail (still relevant in lower-propensity demographics), and GOTV (the concentrated final-week push to known supporters with a turnout plan). MobLab’s Campaign Accelerator integrates voter-contact into the broader distributed-organising arc and treats each channel as a step in a ladder [source: moblab]. The NDI Campaign Skills Handbook covers the standard electoral ground: voter contact, message development, polling, field operations, paid media, digital and GOTV [source: ndi-campaign-skills]. The Commons Library publishes the principles — relational contact beats broadcast [source: commons-library]. The VoteEuropa 2024 GOTV Toolkit is the European multilingual reference [source: voteeuropa-gotv].

Use it for

Designing a GOTV plan; choosing the right voter-contact mix; building a volunteer phone-bank team; setting per-voter contact targets.

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Sources & verification

• sources/moblab — grounding: secondary — RAW (645 chars)
• sources/ndi-campaign-skills — grounding: secondary — RAW (PDF)
• sources/commons-library — grounding: secondary — RAW (5257 chars)
• sources/voteeuropa-gotv — grounding: secondary — RAW (1652 chars)

Verified 2026-06-23 by llm-qc.