BVM is credited with increasing Black voter turnout in the
2020–21 Georgia state elections, including the 2021 U.S. Senate runoffs won by
Reverend Raphael Warnock and
Jon Ossoff.
Effects of COVID-19 BVM co-founder LaTosha Brown credits years of organizing for the organization's ability to operate effectively during the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 election cycle. She explained to
Time in September 2020 that had BVM not developed relationships and recognition with voters throughout 2017, 2018 and 2019, they would have been attempting to reach voters who had never heard of them or built any sort of trust with the organization and would therefore not have had such a significant impact on the election. The organization also substituted in-person events with town halls via
Zoom, which were held multiple times a week and drew as many as 1,000 people.
Bus tours The Black Voters Matter Fund and its partners have participated in several bus tours throughout the
Southern United States and prominent
swing states to "galvanize voters and stop voter suppression." The bus's first tour, "The South is Rising", visited rural areas of four states. In 2019, it made more than 20 trips, and in 2020, the "We Got Power" tour visited Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina and California. Initial plans for 2020 were more expansive, but due to the
COVID-19 pandemic, BVM moved a lot of their contact to virtual town halls. A large QR code was painted on the side of the bus to disperse voter information without necessitating close contact. Brown estimates that BVM made contact with at least 10 million Black voters during the 2020 election cycle bus tours. In 2022, BVM's campaigns were broadly covered by print and television media. The “Take the Field Tour” campaign was primarily focused on historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in Texas with the objective to empower students to take up issues such as voting rights, campaign finance reform, and the elimination of student debt on college campuses nationwide. The "We Won't Black Down" campaign and bus tour goal was to promote democracy in action ahead of the 2022 general election. The national tour included stops in states: North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Florida. The tour bus does not operate only for national- and state-level elections; like BVM itself, tours take place for local-level elections in individual towns and cities. As BVM organizers explained to the
Los Angeles Times in March 2021, working at the local level enables them to support individuals who may eventually seek state and national offices.
Voting Lines Black Voters Matter volunteers who provided food and water to voters waiting in line to vote in the 2020 election did not violate any laws according to the Georgia State Election Board. Voting law SB 202 explicitly prevents non-poll workers from distributing food and water was not in effect yet. == 2024 Presidential election ==