phone banked today

Today I did a three-hour shift making get-out-the-vote phone calls for Yes on 3. The high points for me included reminding someone that the election was today. I also got a few people to make/state voting plans (people are more likely to follow through on "I'm going to drive to the voting place right after work" than just "I'm going to vote today"), and told two people that, for future elections, they can get absentee ballots. (Those were "I'm not voting because I'm too sick/disabled to go out.") A bunch of the successes were people who said they had already voted yes.

I also had one person who asked why we needed this if there was already a law protecting trans rights, so I explained that people were trying to take that away, and another who was either genuinely indecisive (he said he would make up his mind in the voting booth) or didn't want to tell me that he was going to vote no, because he was trying to avoid arguing. (If he'd said he was voting no, I would have said "thank you, goodbye," not tried to persuade him: the persuasive script was for "maybe.")

Plus lots of wrong numbers (one doctor's office), "they're not here now," and people who just hung up or told me to stop bothering them, and one who swore at me and hung up.