Get Out The Vote - Time to innovate?

Every year, hundreds of thousands of party activists across the world pound the streets and knock on doors in an effort to mobilise large numbers of citizens to vote for their party of choice.

Get Out The Vote (GOTV) voter mobilisation has become a staple of electoral campaigning, but as new technologies develop and new political forces take root, is there room for improvement?

Join Campaign Lab for the first event in our new series exploring the potential for innovation in electoral campaigning in the UK and beyond.

For our debut event, we’ll be joined by Rudi Shenk, former National Outreach Director of Obama for America, Matt Goddin, Labour Party organiser for Ilford North, one of the few Labour wins in 2015, and Anna Chowcat, Labour's Digital Organising Officer during the 2017 general & 2018 local elections.

During the panel and breakout session we’ll explore current methods and GOTV strategies used by political parties and campaigns in an effort to identify where there is space for innovation and improvement - asking our speakers: in an ideal world, how would you improve the GOTV operation?

Campaign Lab is a community of activists, researchers and technologists working towards a more evidence-based approach to campaigning - outside of this event series we run monthly hackdays and meetups, come join us.

This event is supported by Labour Together and Newspeak House.

Snacks and refreshments will be provided.