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Edited on Tue Jun-15-04 09:02 PM by rodmant
Last Sunday, we set up a stand at Milwaukee's "Locust Street Days".
Build a lemonade stand style display - two plastic saw horses supporting a plywood top that had a sign (which doubled as a shelf) mounted about 3-4 feet or so off the table top.
We were there from 10:30am until 4pm, about 10' away from a Vets for Kerry beer kiosk. About 5 feet away (clearly separated) we had a Kerry information table with manned with two volunteers. We sold 3 bumper stickers:
o Kerry for Pres o Thinking is Patriotic o Human pyramids are not a family value.
We were literally in the street - it was closed off for the event; we were positioned at the start of a run/walk.
I suggest you create a large sign positioned 6 or 7 feet off the ground (our crowd was standing/watching a band) , and strategically angled for max visibility. Once you set up your stand, the tendency is to never reposition it, so think it through; walk away and around to see how it looks from a distance when your 1st setup.
We had aldermatic(sp?) maps, and ward maps so we could tell people were to vote - all wanted to know. You need to be extremely careful that people fill the form out legibly; else the'll think there registered when the're not. Wisconsin accepts either a state id, drivers license, or the last 4 digits of your SS# as an ID.
We only registered about 15-20 people, but it was a lot of fun (music, people watching,sunshine). Organize it so you have more than enough volunteers, some won't show up; also you may to enjoy the event yourself- ie wander away from the stand for awhile. When you are certified (go to city hall, it takes about 5 minutes), you can only register people for the area covered by that city. We had several from suburbs we could not register- we could have gotten multiple certifications (requiring multiple a different form from each municipality), but we only covered people who were Milwaukee residents.
The guy that stayed the longest had done door to door work as well, but said he registered family after family in the Hispanic neighboorhood on the south side of Milwaukee for an earlier election.
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