A Printed Program for Your Kickoff Event, With a Voter Plan Built In
Most of what's in this library is made for a screen. This one's made for someone's hands. It's a bifold program, designed to print double-sided on standard 8.5x11 paper and fold down the middle, so you can hand a physical copy to everyone who walks through the door at your kickoff event.
What's in the template
Folded, the program reads in four panels, in this order:
Panel 1, the cover, is the first thing anyone sees: your campaign header, "and vote for local Democrats," a short "we believe in" list of the priorities your group is organizing around, and an "organized by" line.
Panel 2, Vote Early, gets specific: early voting dates and locations, then a box sending people straight to your state's official voter site to register, check their status, see their ballot, and find their polling place.
Panel 3, Make a Plan to Vote, is left blank on purpose. It's meant to be filled in by hand during the guided workshop, who won't vote without you, who you'll invite, when you'll go to the polls together, what you'll do to celebrate after. This is the panel that turns the program from something people read into something people commit to.
Panel 4, the back cover, closes with tonight's program, the full run-of-show, welcome, introductions, stories, the workshop, closing, with a name next to each part, plus a QR code for donations.
That sequence, cover, information, commitment, agenda, is what makes this one different from the rest of the library. It's not just information, it's a commitment device people fill out with a pen while they're still in the room with you.
How to customize it
Program agenda names, swapped in for each NAME placeholder, whoever's actually speaking, leading the workshop, or closing the event.
Who you're supporting, the specific candidates or races your group is organizing around.
Your "we believe in" list, swapped for your own group's local priorities. Keep it specific, vague values statements don't move people the way "increasing funding for public schools" does.
Your group name, in the "organized by" and "paid for by" lines, required for both accuracy and, depending on your state, actual disclosure rules around printed political material.
QR code, linked to your own donation or fundraising page.
Early voting dates and locations, pulled directly from your county or state elections office, this changes every cycle, so confirm it fresh rather than reusing an old flyer's dates.
Your state's voter information site, swapped in for indianavoters.com. Every state has its own official portal, check your Secretary of State's website for the right one.
Print notes
This is built for double-sided printing on letter-size paper, then folded down the middle into a bifold. Bring a stack to your event and hand them out at the door, this works as well on a folding table as it does as a leave-behind after.
How Goshen used it
Goshen's cover lists their real beliefs and the groups organizing the night. Panel 2 lists four real early voting locations across Goshen, Elkhart, Middlebury, and Nappanee, with specific dates and hours, and points attendees to IndianaVoters.com to register, check their status, and find their polling place. Panel 3 stays blank, ready to be filled in during the workshop. Panel 4 closes with their run-of-show.
