GOTV Update

The IC25 PLT had a meeting last night, with several volunteers in attendance. We discussed the plan for the weekend GOTV, and the schedule for Tuesday. Monday activities are mostly coordinated from the county level, so anyone who wants to get involved in Monday activities, including the Midnight Madness, go to the JCDHQ.

For any GOTV door-knocking or phone banking on Saturday or Sunday, to get a list of target individuals, come to my house at 226 Friendship, and I will give you a list of targets appropriately sized for your available time. Hopefully we will be able to canvass or call everyone on the list. There is already a large precinct turnout for absentee and satellite voting.

Our Precinct Goal is 533 votes from our list of voters and other votes for our candidate. We have also set internal number goals of 633 and 733 votes. Even the super shocker 733 for our precinct is an attainable goal for the election.

Secondly, Karen is our head of Special Ops, as the Ballot Czar. She is chasing down all outstanding ballots for the precinct, so that all requested absentee ballots get returned to the Auditor's office. Karen also wants to remind everyone that failing to return an absentee ballot to the auditor is against the law, so make sure you get your vote in.

We still need Poll Watchers for Tuesday, from 5:00 to 9:00 PM. If you can or would like to assist in this capacity for some or all of that time, please let me know (you can add a comment to any post on the blog; I check for comments every time I post). We will also need people Tuesday for door-knocking (knock-&-drag), phone banking, and other support positions for our efforts. Please let me know if you can help in any way, even if it's watching over kids or making coffee.

Thanks to everyone who is giving to the effort to change the direction of America. It is time for a fresh start.

Meeting Tonight

This time I mean it!

Yes, there will be a strategy meeting for the GOTV final push, at my house tonight at 8:00. The address, if you need reminding, is 226 Friendship St. I will also be doing some last-minute canvassing leading up to the meeting; if anyone else wants to join the fun, be at my house at 6:50.

We will talk about our IC25 GOTV Magic Number of 533, where we stand today, and what we hold as our ultimate Precinct Internal Number Goal (PING).

Please, I cannot stess this enough, bring along anyone that you know who wishes to volunteer or help out in any way. This goes so far as to recruit young people to watch over small children, so parents can get out to help the effort. Just because they can't vote, doesn't mean they can't make a difference.

We'll need everyone we can get for this weekend, Monday, and Tuesday, plus about half again. Many hands make light work.

GOTV Goal

Our IC25 GOTV vote goal is 533. We are shooting for 533 votes for our candidate by 9:00 PM on Tuesday, 11/2.

We will be continuing efforts to GOTV (Get Out The Vote), now through next Tuesday. Our next event is a meeting at my house, 226 Friendship, tonight at 6:00. That is to organize our leadership team, and plan our various courses of action to GOTV for our slate, for victory in 2004. If you cannot come at 6:00, come at 7:30 (or whenever you can).

We will meet again before Saturday, when official statewide GOTV efforts begin in earnest. We will have a designated voter list targeting those voters that we need to get to the polls or collect absentee ballots from, disseminated by the field office.

Thank you all for all the time and effort you have given and will give for this important election.

Welcome to the IC25 PLT

This may be the best way to communicate to the PLT the actions we will take between now and Nov. 2 to GOTV. If you are not in IC25, you are free to keep updated as to what we are doing, but this blog may become confusing as all hell.

First, if we can have a PLT meeting tomorrow noght, at my house, that would be great. If not everyone can meet at my house at the same time, it would still be great to have everyone stop by at some time Tuesday night.

If you can make it at 6:30, great. If you can make it at 8:00, great. Try to make at least one time.

Feel free to make comments on this or any other post to the Blog. That will further our communication abilities even more.

Anyway, Lloyd, Peter, Karen, and myself attended GOTV training Saturday 10/23, and Andreya also attended and signed up to be part of the PLT. Lloyd, Peter, Karen, and I appointed Peter to be the Poll Boss, the head of the Poll Watching staff for Election Day. Karen is continuing with GOTV efforts targeting the "soft" Kerry/Edwards supporters (also thanks to Christine and Janet for their efforts with this over the weekend), and We all have further efforts planned for the 'base' list of registered Democrats in IC25.

For anyone who is available and interested, I still have Base lists for three of the 12 Precinct Zones; Columbia, Heron, and Hastings (Mostly the North side of IC25). If someone has a couple hours to volunteer, it is an exciting opportunity to meet some of the other progressive minds of IC25.

Final Push GOTV efforts will start Saturday, October 30, and continue through Tuesday, November 2, at 9:30 PM (Polls close at 9:00, but the effort lives on).

Victory will be celebrated at the First Avenue Club, 1550 S. 1st Avenue, but none of us should be able to make it there before 9:30 PM.

Thanks to everyone on the IC25 PLT for all your effort and time. This means everything to a generation of America.

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