3 Days in a Row, the GOTV People Have Been Registering Students at My College

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14. Maybe they are trainig people for future registration campaigns?

I didn't actually go out to register people, though my husband did. The team that worked out of our house had the north side of the county, well away from the colleges and universities. But the teams were kind of competing against each other so our team leader was getting reports from the team whose territory covered all the colleges and universities. Our side of town has a lot of very active liberals so pretty much everyone our volunteers talked to were already registered.

As I said, the teams were working during orientation and registration - among all the different schools that covered about three weeks during the first period we were working with GOTV. Then we had another session just before the Florida primaries, hitting the campuses to register people for the General Election and to remind them of the primary elections coming up.

We only had limited ability to work with the campaign and GOTV that year - my mother in law was not doing well (she passed away the next January) and my health had become a problem. That's why I stayed home and helped coordinate and my husband went out for voter registration.