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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My spouse and I live in Maryland and took our two kids to canvas in Pennsylvania last weekend. No one asked about local politics -you basically knock on the door, confirm the resident has sufficient information/has registered to vote and offer to answer any questions. No one had questions. The engagements last maybe 2 minutes tops.   We must have done 300 apartments/houses and no one asked where we were from and we don’t have the word Maryland tattooed on our forehead. Two people even offered my kids candy. [/quote]

Question:

Was pretty much everyone already registered—and already knew when and where to vote?

The reason I ask is that my org does a big push on educating people about such things and I’m stumped as to why…because I’ve never actually met someone IRL who isn’t registered and is incapable of understanding when and where to vote.

So if most of the people you spoke with in PA said they were all set, can you imagine how they might feel having a strange family on their doorstep assume they are clueless and need help?

Signed,

DEM[/quote]

Everyone’s experiences are different but my husband and kid said they gave three young people brochures on how to register and my husband felt good about that.  Also we didn’t show up as a family of four on people’s doorsteps -we split one parent and one kid and canvassed opposite sides of the street. No one seemed to think we were clueless or needed help.  We didn’t look scared or destitute. We had Dem brochures and campaign buttons given to us by York headquarters prominently displayed so it wasn’t a secret as to why we were knocking.  [/quote]

I meant that the folks answering doors in PA might have felt insulted by the Marylanders standing on their doorstep offering their super smart Maryland Dem help to the clueless PA people who they assumed might have questions on when and where to vote.

And re: the other poster with the mom in VA who found voting hard - maybe it’s a generation thing, because all the info is online. There are websites telling you how to register, where to vote, etc.

If a person can’t figure such things out, that’s troubling.

Fwiw, I don’t think the majority of voters are clueless and need help…particularly homeowners. So I’m curious what kind of people actually said they weren’t registered and needed help. [/quote]

Do you think canvassers are knocking on people's doors and saying they're from out of state?  People don't have the letter M tattooed on their forehead.  I'm a Marylander and have volunteer canvassed in Virginia and Pennsylvania in the past, and no one ever asks, and i don't tell.  The people who said they weren't registered and asked how to do so were predominantly younger people who weren't on our target list who happened to answer the door.  All sorts of people answer the doors-not just homeowners.[/quote]

And sometimes they don’t mind at all. Jane Fonda is canvassing in Michigan and was greeted with a hug. Fonda is known to be from California. [/quote]

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