VoteZip.org's Mission

Our mission is to register 1,000,000 new voters in time for the 2008 general election in November.

In the 2004 election, we saw a tremendous increase in voter registration -- 12.5 million more voters were registered than in 2000. This was largely the result of impressive and well-organized voter registration drives. But despite these heroic efforts, an astounding 55 million eligible United States citizens were still not registered to vote by November 2004. That is more than 25 percent of all citizens over the age of 18. Given these numbers, our goal is relatively modest. Registering 1 million new voters amounts to less than 2 percent of the 55 million who were unregistered four years ago.

Most unregistered citizens want to register, but many do not know how. Conversely, hundreds of thousands of volunteers would gladly go out of their way to help these people register to vote if they knew where to find them.

VoteZip.org is an online voter registration network that realizes the full potential of the internet to connect volunteers with new voters. It acts as a link between the two groups. Volunteers and new voters enter their contact information and zip code into our databases, and are matched according to geographical proximity. VoteZip.org notifies volunteers when people in their area need help registering to vote. The volunteer then contacts the registrants and assists them, either over the phone or by scheduling a time and place to meet in person.

Dividing volunteer regions by zip code has a number of advantages. First, people know their own zip code, which makes registering to vote as easy as providing this very basic information. Furthermore, dividing the country into several small sections makes it easier to reach our goal of 1 million new voters. There are over 42,000 zip codes in the United States. If only 25 new voters register in every zip code across the country, we will have easily exceeded our goal of 1 million new voters.