Jane Sanders' Tweet on GE Day.. "How We Voted is Not as Important as that we voted"

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184. On any campaign I've ever worked with, it's a two-pronged approach.

Task 1: Ask people if they are registered and, if not, help unregistered voters to register to the extent that state election law allows you. (For example, in NY you can hand out forms, answer general questions about the forms, and offer to mail them. In PA, you can help people fill out the forms and offer to mail them, but you can't fill out any part of the form for them.)

Task 2: Advocate for Democratic candidates by talking about their achievements, platforms, and policy positions and by highlighting key differences between the Democratic candidate and candidates from other parties.

During the GOTV period, volunteers do everything possible to get Democrats to the polls, be it helping them to find their polling places, giving them mass transit information, arranging for transportation, or even personally driving them to the polls.

Here in NY where polls close at 9:00 pm, on the day of a presidential election, volunteers frequently work well past 10:00 pm.

The chief advisor to the BS campaign stopped far short of what every Democratic GOTV volunteer is trained to do.

This wasn't the chief advisor's first GE campaign. I wonder why she failed to do what every volunteer works so hard to accomplish?