— By the Numbers —
$1,100,000
The amount our researchers found that Duke Energy spent to aid Gov. Pat McCrory’s election; his environmental agency tried to block stricter regulation of Duke’s coal ash.
1,000,000+
Total pieces of voter education materials created and distributed in 2014, including our voting rights wallet cards and bulletin inserts for hundreds of churches in our Souls to the Polls project.
250,000
Voter guides distributed in 10 counties; 139,000 were mailed to African Americans, other people of color, youth, and single women. They voted at 4.3 percentage points higher than a control group of similar voters!
8
Number of Democracy NC organizers and trainers who conducted over 60 trainings across NC for thousands of volunteers to bolster voter turnout and advocacy.
400
We recruited, trained, and deployed more than 400 poll monitors to 120+ precincts in three dozen North Carolina counties for the 2014 primary and general elections.
632
Our campaign to push local boards of elections to adopt strong early voting plans yielded 632 more hours of early voting than in 2010 in the 30 counties we targeted.
1,400
Every year Democracy NC staffs an election protection hotline. In 2014 we fielded over 1,400 calls from across the state during early voting and on Election Day.
14,000
14,000 Latino voters who received a special mailing from Democracy NC, El Pueblo, and NALEO turned out at twice the rate of other Latino voters!
