A successful campaign for automatic voter registration educates and engages people in your community. Use:

Social Media: Check out these examples from the Bus Project, which organized for Oregon’s New Motor Voter program. The Bus Project:

• Kept a blog with campaign updates and published posts like this one regularly.
• Stayed active on Twitter and Facebook.
• Used hashtags like #NewMotorVoter and #AVRforAll to connect with a national story.

Remember to take pictures, and share them with us on twitter or facebook!

Op-Eds: Send opinion pieces or updates like the ones below to newspapers.

• Oregon’s automatic voter registration blazes trail on voting access
• The Oregon Trail: The state’s new governor is going on the offensive in the battle for voting rights.
• Here's how California's new voter registration law will work
• California is making it easier to vote. Why aren’t other states?
• Automatic Voter Registration Comes to Vermont
• Vt. House approves automatic voter registration
• Republicans (Yes, really!) Made Registering to Vote Easier in West Virginia
• States Prove that Voter Registration at the D.M.V. Works
• DMV agrees to follow law after DOJ voter registration lawsuit

Press Releases: Press releases are another useful way to work with local media to educate people in your state. For example:

• The Brennan Center for Justice issued this press release when Vermont’s Governor Peter Shumlin (D) signed automatic voter registration into law.
• California’s Secretary of State Alex Padilla issued this press release when California’s legislature passed automatic voter registration.

Check out our templates for press releases, op-eds, sample tweets, and sample graphics to start getting the word out in your state!