Only few days left until the elections! Don’t let them go by wasted – you can still convince a few people to vote! Here are a few simple ideas:
Post about voting on facebook. Use the frame by the European Parliament’s campaign #ThisTimeImVoting and change your profile picture for a few days signalling you will vote. Send a mass WhatsApp, talk to your friends and sports team, your family… There are many options! Maybe your grandparents even have a cool story to share about the first time they voted?
Not quite sure whom to vote for yet? Check different resources to make your decision:
You post almost everyday on facebook, instagramm or another channel? Or maybe you don’t posting but could imagine changing your profile picture? Use your outreach! The European Parliament’s campaign This Time I’m Voting has prepared a few designs to make this easier, here’s what they offer:
There are also frames for your facebook profile picture available!
Yes, you have heard correctly! No pubs this weekend, but booths! Invite your friends and AEGEE-members, get on your bikes, take snacks and Europe flags and go vote together! Voting doesn’t have to be boring, it’s what you make of it!
Spice up your mensa or local town square or whichever place seems public enough! This can be a fun reminder for everyone present that the elections are coming up.
Check out these (very cool) examples from the internet:
People passing by on the street don’t have time? On the bus they have nothing to do anyways! Prepare a few questions, jump on a bus, ask passengers, hop off at the next station and gather results.
Sample script for bus talk
Hi, I’m from a local youth organisation and we want to make people aware of the EP elections in 2019.
Use the contact form below to tell us what today’s passengers said!
Make a “I will vote” frame or poster and ask people if they would take a picture with it, upload it to their Facebook page and link the Y Vote page! Also you could use the flyers that the “This time I’m voting” campaign of the European Parliament Liaison Offices. Find out more about our cooperation with the European Parliament and This Time I’m Voting and how it can be useful for your local.
If you start a street action, you need to make yourself visible! Get creative! Ideas: big signs with statistics that attract attention, costumes, spinning wheel with different prizes (e.g. borrow from bank or similar), think about where people have time to talk to you, e.g. pedestrian alley, shopping street on weekend, bus, waiting areas, people that are relaxed.
Get other members hyped for the elections? Want to pump up your weekly social drink? Make sure you have a projector and test everyone’s knowledge! Have a look at our kahoot quiz, or make your own. Also see our cheat sheet for the quiz with the login info.
A voter who votes the first time they are allowed to is likely to stay voter all their life, whereas whoever doesn’t use this chance might never make use of it. Your teachers from high school are in touch with many first-time voters! Ask them to take a few minutes from their lesson to remind students of this opportunity.
You want to make people laugh at your next AEGEE event? Here’s an energizer for you: Instead of colorful circles, put faces of politicians on a twister board. E.g. faces of old politicians that are closely connected to the EU integration – Adenauer, Churchill, Monnet, Spinelli, and connect it with a quiz. Then it starts: “Put your left foot on Churchill”.
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