Has the motor voter bill helped with registration numbers?
It has made it easier for people to register and it has increased registration. Not necessarily the turnout, but it has increased registration. What have you done to help increase turnout? We are out there talking to everyone. We had a television show at one point for my first year-and-a-half where we talked about election issues. Just trying to educate people on the process. How is this different from being mayor? When I came down here, I had always dealt with the election processes from the other side of the table, as a candidate. But this thing is the toughest thing I have ever done because it is so labor intensive. And when you have that sort of labor-intense work, there is so much room for error, there are so many uncontrollables. On Election Day we have 6,000 to 8,000 people who work for us maybe two or three times a year. And we have training, but really you can’t expect anyone to remember every darn thing from one election to another. There are a lot of uncontrollables. When I
It has made it easier for people to register and it has increased registration. Not necessarily the turnout, but it has increased registration. What have you done to help increase turnout? We are out there talking to everyone. We had a television show at one point for my first year-and-a-half where we talked about election issues. Just trying to educate people on the process. How is this different from being mayor? When I came down here, I had always dealt with the election processes from the other side of the table, as a candidate. But this thing is the toughest thing I have ever done because it is so labor intensive. And when you have that sort of labor-intense work, there is so much room for error, there are so many uncontrollables. On Election Day we have 6,000 to 8,000 people who work for us maybe two or three times a year. And we have training, but really you can’t expect anyone to remember every darn thing from one election to another. There are a lot of uncontrollables. When I
