Feet on the streets; digits on the dials. Congressional candi- date Kyrsten Sinema came in to phone bank for awhile. Voters kept streaming into the office to present their early ballots rather than mail them in. They didn’t all get to shake the hand of a candidate as this young lady did. The other photo shows a volunteer submitting 5 Early Ballots that he collected from family members, putting them in a special box held by a staff organizer. BTW: That's a cardboard cut-out of JFK in the background.
An apartment-dweller in Chandler called in with a weekend challenge: How could she contact the Democrats in her complex to urge them to Get Out The Vote? Simple enough. I printed out a list of registered Democrats, included the Independent voters who had expressed liberal leanings in earlier phone canvassing, and, voila: A list of 50, in numerical order by apartment number. Now she’s one happy teacher.
A distressing story: A lady came into the office with a problem that we could not solve. She moved to the Valley in early October --too late to register to vote here. And by the time she realized it, it was too late for her to get an absentee ballot from her home state. We were both disappointed.
The good news is, though, that she’s certainly found a way to meet her new neighbors. I connected her to the Neighborhood Team Leader in her area. Armed with a list of friendly Democrats in the area, she’ll be knocking on doors and making phone calls until E-Day
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