Following breakout sessions by state, where team leaders and field organizers told their version of how we won, everyone gathered again in the big Conference room to hear about what we're learning.
Christ Wyant, Deputy Field Director from Ohio, and Yohannes Abraham, Field Director from Virginia, presented some of the findings from the surveys of the 500,000 volunteers nationwide who filled them out--this in addition to surveys from 460 Field Organizers, 80 Regional Field Directors, and 22 Voter File Managers. All this information was analyzed and compiled by a Post Election Task Force, that is combining it with feedback from the Conference to write a comprehensive report about the past and the future of this organization.
Some of what was found includes:
Then, we broke out by state again, but into even more focused groups, by turf type: rural, suburban, and urban, to talk about what worked and what didn't. For example, organizers in urban areas found that doing voter registration at commercial areas and high traffic areas like bus stops was fruitful, while defining volunteer teams very strictly by their geographical region could be more of an impediment.
Currently we're in the debrief section, prior to getting dinner outside the Conference Room. Stay tuned for more.
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