As noted earlier, on September 9 Americans Elect sent an e-mail to many of its delegates, encouraging them to volunteer to help build the organization. On September 19, Americans Elect issued a press release, expanding on this idea. The organization hopes to find at least one volunteer in each State Senate district in the United States, which would be 2,051 individuals. These volunteers would try to enroll at least 500 more delegates.
The press release says the pool of delegates “will come from registered voters of all ideological backgrounds.”
The initiative is called “Project 500”. Americans Elect will provide volunteers with tools, suggestions and support to facilitate their outreach. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the news. The text of the press release does not seem to be on the Americans Elect web page.
I have been signed up and following AE since their origination and was formerly very active in Unity08, but I did not get this e-mail. I wonder how they selected delegates to be e-mailed.