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[redbird]

Yesterday I made a few get-out-the-vote call specifically for the Biden campaign, and some mostly nonpartisan get-out-the-vote text banking., Today, I've sent a lot of texts: a friend posted last night that she had meant to text bank today but her tendonitis is acting up, so she guessed she'd be phone banking. So we agreed I'd text on her behalf, and she'd phone on my behalf.

Nonetheless, I may try phone banking again in a little while, or at least find a specifically Biden/Harris or Democratic text bank, rather than the ones that are hoping that if we get lots of people to the polls who don't usually vote, explicitly including Black and Hispanic voters, significantly more of them will vote for Biden than for Trump. The Trump fans seem to think so, based on their reactions to texts that say things like "I'm with State Voices, do you have a plan for voting?"

cattitude continues to be my support Cat, with sandwiches and tea and
[3100 initial texts, plus replies including to other people's initial texts, as of 1:00.]

Comments

[gatheringrivers]

The only issue I've had with being on the receiving end of text banking this year is everyone keeps texting the number I *never* give out - because there's like an idiotic message limit on it before we charged out the wazoo. :(

Since you're in with the text banking crowd, is there like a master list somewhere that maybe I could coerce an update to?

[redbird]

Probably not, unfortunately. The various campaigns get lists from the state boards of elections [and other places, probably]. If someone told us that we d a wrong number, or the right person but they don't live in Florida anymore, we would make a note on our system, but it didn't usually go back even to other texting campaigns.

Your best bet might be to check what number the state board of elections or motor vehicle bureau has. We spent a lot of time explaining that the list of registered voters is public--that redbird lives at this address and is a registered voter who has not enrolled in a political party. The list of who voted in past elections often is, and this year apparently some states made the lists of people who had already voted public, though of course not who they voted for.

[gatheringrivers]

Alright, I'll follow up with that once all the furor dies down. Thanks. :)