Put Your Past Organizing Work to Use
You organized your community. You registered voters. You held community forums. You wrote and distributed a voter's guide. And all along the way, you recorded the information of the folks you educated and registered!
Now it's time to put that valuable information to good use.
- Assemble a team of volunteers (could be your friends, family, babysitter, neighbors - whoever) and put together a list of the contacts you gathered.
- Divide the list into "walkable" territory - congruent neighborhoods that an individual volunteer can cover in 3 hours.
- Go door-to-door to houses you have identified, ask folks if they have voted and if they know where their polling place is located. Have a few people available to drive people to the polls standing by with cell phones, in case you knock on the door of a person who needs assistance.
- Make phone calls to those you have contacted, especially if your volunteers don't feel comfortable going door-to-door or it just isn't possible.
- Encourage people who may get to the polls late to stay in line. There will be unprecedented turn-out in this election, and we need to keep people in line as long as it takes.