i'm alive!
whew, the election almost ate me alive. i worked a whole lot leading up to the big day and i'm just starting to be unexhausted. but we did really well! of the 5 amendments we were working to defeat, we defeated 4 including the 3 most important. colorado is the first state to reject the anti-worker "right to work" law since the early 70s and we're the first state EVER to defeat ward connerly's anti-affirmative action amendment since it passed as prop 209 in california. we also defeated an amendment that would have given rights to fertilized eggs and another anti-labor amendment that would have prohibited union dues deductions from paychecks. i'm very pleased with our work. the one that passed is about the ability of union officials and their families to make political contributions. there were a bunch of other amendments on the ballot (the longest ballot in colorado's history) some of which failed/passed and shouldn't have but i'm not too upset about them.
here's the first installment of my picture catchup.
i designed all the literature for my org's election canvass and final four get-out-the-vote canvass. this is a new role for me but i loved it - i wish it was my all-the-time job. our final four was about 250-350 canvassers (depending on the day) and we were supposed to go to about 80,000 doors. we didn't get to all those doors - we had a LOT of lit leftover - but it was still exciting. i designed three flyers that were essentially the same but different colors. this picture is of fronts of the tuesday piece and the weekend piece which we had just gotten back from the printers. the monday piece was a little different and not back from the printers yet because we lasered people's vote centers onto it. the tuesday piece also had a tear-off ballot guide to take to the polls.
october 27th:
the next day i went with the food committee to costco and safeway to buy some of the non-perishible food. this is just some of the soda we bought for the canvass.
october 28th:
on wednesday i spent most of the day "cutting turf" for the final four. this is basically cutting out the walk lists for the canvassers using a voter database. the map populates with your search criteria (voters under 50 who voted in the last election, or whatever you want) and you quite literally draw a box around voters on a map in a given precinct. we were trying to make chunks of 100 voters. all those little dots in the middle of the map are registered voters. it's easy and pretty boring and i did it until late on wednesday - here's the computer i was working on.
october 29th:
after cutting the turf, we print and label and then make packets for the canvassers to carry with their script and other stuff. this is a tiny bit of the turf all laid out ready to be processed. this is what i did until quite late at night on thursday.
october 30th:
friday was halloween! i didn't have time to come up with a costume this year, but i did have time to make some kitty ears and tape them onto a headband.
october 31st:
and bonus picture for the 31st, some of the weekend lit all bundled and waiting for the canvassers.
i'll be back with round two shortly!
here's the first installment of my picture catchup.
i designed all the literature for my org's election canvass and final four get-out-the-vote canvass. this is a new role for me but i loved it - i wish it was my all-the-time job. our final four was about 250-350 canvassers (depending on the day) and we were supposed to go to about 80,000 doors. we didn't get to all those doors - we had a LOT of lit leftover - but it was still exciting. i designed three flyers that were essentially the same but different colors. this picture is of fronts of the tuesday piece and the weekend piece which we had just gotten back from the printers. the monday piece was a little different and not back from the printers yet because we lasered people's vote centers onto it. the tuesday piece also had a tear-off ballot guide to take to the polls.
october 27th:
the next day i went with the food committee to costco and safeway to buy some of the non-perishible food. this is just some of the soda we bought for the canvass.
october 28th:
on wednesday i spent most of the day "cutting turf" for the final four. this is basically cutting out the walk lists for the canvassers using a voter database. the map populates with your search criteria (voters under 50 who voted in the last election, or whatever you want) and you quite literally draw a box around voters on a map in a given precinct. we were trying to make chunks of 100 voters. all those little dots in the middle of the map are registered voters. it's easy and pretty boring and i did it until late on wednesday - here's the computer i was working on.
october 29th:
after cutting the turf, we print and label and then make packets for the canvassers to carry with their script and other stuff. this is a tiny bit of the turf all laid out ready to be processed. this is what i did until quite late at night on thursday.
october 30th:
friday was halloween! i didn't have time to come up with a costume this year, but i did have time to make some kitty ears and tape them onto a headband.
october 31st:
and bonus picture for the 31st, some of the weekend lit all bundled and waiting for the canvassers.
i'll be back with round two shortly!