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Public Opinion Quarterly 64:29-52 (2000)
© 2000 American Association for Public Opinion Research

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Rocking the Vote: Using Personalized Messages to Motivate Voting among Young Adults*

DIANA BURGESS, BETH HANEY, MARK SNYDER, JOHN L. SULLIVAN and JOHN E. TRANSUE

Abstract

We examined a nationwide effort to encourage young adults to vote in the 1996 U.S. presidential election. During the year before the election, individuals were given the chance to sign and self-address one of two kinds of postcards pledging to vote; these cards were mailed back to the individuals within 2 weeks prior to the election. It is important to note that some individuals completed pledge cards that prompted them to provide their own reason for voting by completing the sentence, "I will vote because ______ ," whereas other individuals completed pledge cards that did not contain this sentence prompt. We conducted a large-scale survey of individuals who filled out pledge cards and determined that receiving a pledge card with the sentence prompt had a positive influence on voting. Moreover, this effect was found above and beyond demographic and psychological predictors of voting. Implications of these findings are discussed.


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