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October 13, 2004
Election Day Bike Activism
Yesterday on the Omidyar Network, Mickki Langston posted an idea about how to get out the vote on election day. She called her post Election Day Bike Activism. The idea, essentially, is to mobilize young voters by reaching out to coffee houses and bike shops: throughout election day, volunteers would ride around from cafe to cafe and bike shop to bike shop with flyers containing info on local polling places and the need to go out and vote. It sounds like a great low-budget way to mobilize community members -- both the latte crowd and the outdoor enthusiast crowd -- to do their civic duty, particularly in swing states like Florida, Colorado and Arizona, where chances are decent that biking weather might apply in early November. Check out Mickki's discussion thread for the full scoop on the idea.... -ac
Posted by acarvin at October 13, 2004 8:48 AM
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