Last Day...

Last Monday April 16, 2012 was my final day interning at the Pinellas County OFA office. I will miss working at the office, I learned a lot and had a lot of fun. I learned the importance of the persuasion calls which I thought were pointless when I was on the receiving end, but now I understand how important they are. Now that I myself have conducted persuasion calls, I promise never to bother a telemarketer ever again. I also learned how much work and planning goes into an event. I never thought I would have worked on a political campaign and hope to continue contributing to the campaign. My last day was a little sad, but everyone was nice.

Voter Registration!

This was my first time registering voters and I would say it was a success. Since we are officially in the General Election campaign season, we need to register more and more voters. The OFA office is doing voter registration everyday now, volunteers come in all the time with a plan to register voters.

Cristina and I decided to team up and tackle the task of registering voters. I registered voters while she looked for more volunteers. It was a little rough at first, the students were not very receptive. Many hesitated when asked if they were registered to vote.

Registration picked up when Cristina and I decided to head to the dorm. To every person that walked into the dorm I asked if they were registered to vote or not. 2/4 people registered with us. On our way back to Harbor Side Lawn we encountered a very enthusiastic participant. When asked if he was registered to vote his reply was "Are you Republican?" I replied "No" and he immediately began filling out the form. Once finished I informed him that we were volunteers and asked if he wanted more information on joining; he did. Cristina persuaded him to fill out an "I'm in" pledge card and we were on our way.

I registered four people and we had seven people registered by the end of our drive. I thought voter registration went pretty well and It was kind of fun. I liked having people respond with enthusiasm at the possibility of voting. Voting is such an important part of our country.