# What are your tactics for getting people to go vote?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-tactics-for-getting-people-to-go-vote/844038>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 27, 2019, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-tactics-for-getting-people-to-go-vote/844038 "2019-11-27T00:09:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-tactics-for-getting-people-to-go-vote/844038/1 "2019-11-27T00:09:18Z")

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There’s been a Facebook meme going around (that was prevalent last November); an image of a huge crowd of people, with one-third of them “I voted” and two-thirds of them saying in unison, “We didn’t vote because it doesn’t make a difference.”

What are your own GOTV tactics (regardless of which way you lean politically) to get your fellow cohorts off the couch and to the polling station?

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**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-tactics-for-getting-people-to-go-vote/844038/2 "2019-11-27T00:34:37Z")

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Call, go door-to-door. Going door-to-door is tougher, and as an individual volunteer, I sometimes dread doing it, but on a macro level, it helps the organizers do their jobs. I’ve come away with an admiration of the grass roots organizers - can’t be an easy job.

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**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-tactics-for-getting-people-to-go-vote/844038/3 "2019-11-27T00:41:17Z")

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> [@asahi](#):
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> Call, go door-to-door. Going door-to-door is tougher, and as an individual volunteer, I sometimes dread doing it, but on a macro level, it helps the organizers do their jobs. I’ve come away with an admiration of the grass roots organizers - can’t be an easy job.

Right, but I mean more like, what is your “pitch” to them? How do you counter the “My 1 vote isn’t going to sway the election in itself” fallacy?

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**Author:** ![Barack\_Obama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dc4da7/32.png) [@Barack\_Obama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barack_Obama)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-tactics-for-getting-people-to-go-vote/844038/4 "2019-11-27T01:56:03Z")

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Explain Bernie Sander’s policies to them.

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-tactics-for-getting-people-to-go-vote/844038/5 "2019-11-27T12:22:09Z")

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I pay people to vote. Kind of. In 2008 I was excited about the Obama campaign. I offered my employees an hour or two to go vote, while remaining “on the clock”.

Unfortunately I discovered that the people who needed to be coddled to vote were the same people who’d never registered.