Thread by @doctorow

Today on @xkcd, an "Election Impact Score Sheet" that turns on the theory that "reminders from friends and family to vote have a bigger effect on turnout than anything campaigns do."

xkcd.com/2380/

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It's a call to action: if you have friends or family PA, ME, AK, MT, NM, WI, MI, IO, NC, NH, GA, NE, MI, FL, KS, MI or CO, drop them a line today - text, call, email - and remind them to vote. Prioritize these calls in roughly that order.

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If the people you reach need help with their plan to vote, refer them to a guide like this one, and help them work through it, figuring it out together.

projects.fivethirtyeight.com/how-to-vote-20…

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If you remind two PA voters, the predicted impact on the election is as if you yourself had two votes. For every 2.5 voters in AZ, ME or NE you remind, that's also predicted to shift the tally by one extra vote.

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As the tooltip explains: "You might think most people you know are reliable voters, or that your nudge won't convince them, and you will usually be right. But some small but significant percentage of the time, you'll be wrong, and that's why this works."

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