Volunteering in Nevada

My friend Mary just sent this e-mail from Nevada, where she has gone to do Get Out The Vote. Awesome.

What a great day. Bus to Las Vegas. Here I am at the training for election day in Nevada. It is a VERY organized campaign. We hang VOTE reminders on doorknobs at 6am and continue canvasing throughout the day based on the poll watchers’ information. At 9, 12, and 3, the polls release the very names of those who have voted. The “poll watchers” call these names into a central Obama computer that in return spits out the names and numbers of Democrats who have not voted yet. They forward the phone numbers of the laggers to people like you who are working the phone banks so that you can call them and remind them to vote. They also call us in Nevada and tell us the addresses to visit in person. Amazing.

She attached the following picture of the Obama volunteers receiving their training. Which, of course, brought tears to my eyes: