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Tue Jun-15-04 05:41 PM
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Show of hands: Who's engaged in voter registration activities right now? |
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What are you doing?
What do you believe has been most effective?
What's been your response?
Any advice for those who've never done it before?
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Tue Jun-15-04 05:50 PM
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Tue Jun-15-04 06:04 PM
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2. I live just north of Nashville TN and |
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I went to an Earthday event and a Gay Pride event and registered people to vote. Also I took voter registration forms to work with me and registered people to vote. ELECT KERRY 2004!!!!
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Tue Jun-15-04 07:46 PM
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Keep up the great work. High voter turnout always favors Dems and people have to be eligible to vote so we can mobilize them in November.
Anyone else?
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Tue Jun-15-04 08:18 PM
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4. I carry half a dozen registration forms in my car.... |
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I carry two different county voter registration forms for my area (different addresses), but I don't actively pursue voters to sign up. Nevertheless, I'm ready to help when I encounter someone who hasn't registered yet.
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Tue Jun-15-04 08:18 PM
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5. ran a registration booth at a festival (Milwaukee- Locust Street Days) |
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Edited on Tue Jun-15-04 09:02 PM by rodmant
Last Sunday, we set up a stand at Milwaukee's "Locust Street Days".
Build a lemonade stand style display - two plastic saw horses supporting a plywood top that had a sign (which doubled as a shelf) mounted about 3-4 feet or so off the table top.
We were there from 10:30am until 4pm, about 10' away from a Vets for Kerry beer kiosk. About 5 feet away (clearly separated) we had a Kerry information table with manned with two volunteers. We sold 3 bumper stickers:
o Kerry for Pres o Thinking is Patriotic o Human pyramids are not a family value.
We were literally in the street - it was closed off for the event; we were positioned at the start of a run/walk.
I suggest you create a large sign positioned 6 or 7 feet off the ground (our crowd was standing/watching a band) , and strategically angled for max visibility. Once you set up your stand, the tendency is to never reposition it, so think it through; walk away and around to see how it looks from a distance when your 1st setup.
We had aldermatic(sp?) maps, and ward maps so we could tell people were to vote - all wanted to know. You need to be extremely careful that people fill the form out legibly; else the'll think there registered when the're not. Wisconsin accepts either a state id, drivers license, or the last 4 digits of your SS# as an ID.
We only registered about 15-20 people, but it was a lot of fun (music, people watching,sunshine). Organize it so you have more than enough volunteers, some won't show up; also you may to enjoy the event yourself- ie wander away from the stand for awhile. When you are certified (go to city hall, it takes about 5 minutes), you can only register people for the area covered by that city. We had several from suburbs we could not register- we could have gotten multiple certifications (requiring multiple a different form from each municipality), but we only covered people who were Milwaukee residents.
The guy that stayed the longest had done door to door work as well, but said he registered family after family in the Hispanic neighboorhood on the south side of Milwaukee for an earlier election.
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Wed Jun-16-04 08:42 AM
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Wed Jun-16-04 09:06 AM
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9. I was working Peace Action's booth there, rodmant... |
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Very cool. Was your booth affiliated with a specific group? You might consider calling Peace Action (www.peaceactionwi.org) or the Candlelight Coalition (www.candlelightcoalition.org) in Tosa and signing up for their registration events.
And welcome to DU!
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Wed Jun-16-04 09:01 AM
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Went to my county courthouse, raised my hand and swore an oath, got my little cards and now I'm getting all of my husband's friends to vote (hubby is new and so are his friends).
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Wed Jun-16-04 09:02 AM
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8. Deputized as a registrar for my city... |
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And going to become deputized for four surrounding suburbs in the next week or so.
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Wed Jun-16-04 09:20 AM
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10. co-organizing registration and GOTV |
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for my county. We've registered voters at 6 events so far and are planning many more. 20 people are coming to my house this Friday so that we can better organize this.
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Wed Jun-16-04 09:53 AM
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Wed Jun-16-04 10:39 AM
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12. Just looked at your "Power To The People" movie... |
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Edited on Wed Jun-16-04 10:39 AM by ClassWarrior
Powerful. It didn't feel like history that day. It mostly felt COLD here. But history it was. And we were there.
As for advice to voter registration newbies? It's easy. Do it. Get out the vote for Kerry.
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Wed Jun-16-04 10:47 AM
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Precint Captain, worked in the voter registration booth at the "cities" birthday party last weekend, every other weekend table in front of grocery store, deputized registrar at all our high school fund raisers. Only problem being a deputized registrar is that you can not refuse to register a Repuke. I just tell them to remember the nice Democratic lady that registered them after * does another stupid thing.
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