Atlanta (1/6/20)– With several days until every last vote is counted and the election of Georgia’s US Senators is certified, one thing is certain– historic levels of turnout appear to be what made the difference, including an unprecedented level of engagement from Georgia’s LGBTQ community.
Over the past 8 weeks Georgia Equality has deployed a Get Out The Vote campaign the likes of which the organization has never executed before. Twenty, (majority people of color and under 30 years old), election staffers and 450 volunteers completed over 110,000 volunteer hours. We called over 25,000 people and had over 6,600 phone conversations with voters. We sent hundreds of thousands of text messages and completed over 450,000 total voter contacts. The volunteer program was bolstered by a state-wide paid phone program in the final week of the election that reached 135,000 voters, a direct mail campaign that reached 600,000 households, a targeted digital effort that resulted in 14 million total impressions, generated over 12K total website clicks and had over 3.3 million video completions, and pro-equality radio spots in Savannah.
tomorrow in a new year. 2020 has been like no other, and while it’s easy to name all the bad this year brought, I’d like to use my last email of the year focusing on what we’ve been able to accomplish together. In spite of all of it, we have so much to be proud of, and 
