text banking

[redbird]

Yesterday I got Zoom training on how to do text banking, and sent a bunch of texts to encourage people to vote by mail. A lot of people ignored the texts, of course, and quite a few asked us to stop texting them, but several people thanked me for the information. Mostly routine, but I also tracked down contact information for the Florida board of elections for someone who needed their ballot sent to Virginia.

Today, cattitude dropped off our ballots at Belmont Town Hall. Text banking is easier than phone banking for me psychologically, but harder on my hands. I have sent some texts this afternoon, haven't decided whether to do more; make phone calls; or neither.

Comments

[kareina]

The first time I read that was "how to do text baking", and I wondered why you would want to bake text? Isn't bread or pie more appealing?

[redbird]

Yes. I could probably find letter-shaped cookie cutters, but making words and sentences instead of just a V or K would be less likely. Even if I ever baked that sort of cookie.