Reply #44: I think the point is that people who weren't contacted and [View All]

encouraged to vote didn't vote. If they wanted to vote, and could get to the polls, they would have.

It sounds rather like where I was a poll worker in NY state. We kept the official list of who voted; but we also kept an official listing, broken down by party. If party workers showed up and wanted "their" list, they got it. They could then look over the list of registered voters (dem or repub) that they had and determined who hadn't yet voted. The party workers would then make calls, make sure that people knew where to vote and had transportation; if they didn't have transportation, some would be provided.

Where I was, we had the option of not assisting the party workers. I had the option of just helping those in my party. But it seemed dishonest to do just one list, so both repubs and dems did both. And it didn't hurt anybody to keep them.