Presentation

2. Background, Motivation, and Goals of the Study

6. Experimental Design

10. The Completed Survey Has a Unique Methodology Problem The Disposition of Everyone who Picked up the Phone, Even for a Second, Was Recorded Very Pleasant Smwt Pleasant Indifferent/ Annoyed Those who did not take the survey Very Pleasant Smwt Pleasant Indifferent/ Annoyed Those who did take the survey

11. Preliminary Survey Results Initial Weighting by Gender, Weekend (Recall Rate), and Disposition

12. Participants are Young, Democratic, and Reasonably Diverse

13. While Positive Reactions Far Outnumbered Negative Feelings, A Distinct Minority Were Bothered Open-ended: What was your reaction to receiving the text message? (Classified Response) Positive Neutral Surprised Negative Did you find the text message helpful or were you bothered by it? 25% Strong 13% Strong

14. However, This Small Backlash Did Not Deter People From Voting 7% Much More Did receiving the text message make you (much) more/less likely to vote?

15. Young People Prefered to Be Contacted By Text Message and Email Imagine that a political organization wanted to remind you to vote just before Election Day. How would you prefer that they contact you?

16. Where We Go From Here