It should have worked. On Thursday I put up posters at the entrances to the apartment buildings at the old Franklin Avenue and Delaware Schools in Palmerton explaining that today we would be holding a non-partisan registration drive today from 11-1 p.m.
We had four volunteers go door-to-door. We had the forms and absentee ballot applications. We had a brochures touting reasons to vote, and we had free pens that said “I vote.” We were friendly. We were polite.
We registered a total of zero. We did hand applications to a young couple on the way out, and we did talk to a number of people who were already registered who were happy to receive the “I vote” pens. We also ran into a number of people who were not interested in voting, and we refrained from calling them stupid or unpatriotic.
After next week it will be too late to register for the primary. After the May primary we will do it again at different apartments. Nobody said it would be easy.
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