How to get people to vote

[Cicada]

Free rap concerts, rock concerts, Latin music concerts, raves, but you have to show online on a laptop at the entrance that you are registered to vote. Or you must fill out voter registration form at the entrance. And have absentee ballots available at the entrance for those who want them, prestamped next to a mailbox. Millennials don't vote. Or a Curtis Stone cooking demonstration in the Trader Joe or Whole Foods parking lot (what red blooded woman wouldn't turn out for that?)

[world wide wally]

1. We did a voter registration drive for Obama in '08

we had live music and free grilled hot dogs in the park.
We signed up about 100 people in our small town

[Cicada]

2. Glad to hear that.

I haven't heard about such events but maybe they just don't get reported.

[Lee-Lee]

3. Maybe start by being less sexist and homophobic in your planning?

"Or a Curtis Stone cooking demonstration in the Trader Joe or Whole Foods parking lot (what red blooded woman wouldn't turn out for that?) "

Really? Let's bring the hot guy out to teach the little ladies cooking, that will get them out?

This is the kid of crap I would expect to see in leaked GOP strategy memos, not on a Democratic website.

I don't know where to start- assuming cooking only appeals to women and is for them, assuming because the guy is attractive they will come see him, assume that will be enough to sway them to vote.

And then the whole homophobic slur that any "red blooded" woman would turn out for that. Tell me, what color blood do all the women not attracted to men have?

Perhaps start with readjusting your thinking so you don't offend more people than you bring in.

[Brickbat]

4. WTF is this crap.

[WillowTree]

5. It's a sad, sorry state of affairs when we think we have to bribe people to vote.

[Cicada]

6. Yes. We live in a less than perfect world.

It is sad we must punish people to reduce murders. But doing that makes the world better.