Creating a 2004 School Plan – A Manual

Send everyone who pledges to vote a reminder on Election Eve

Every student who collects voter pledges on the Take Ten Forms is asked to give the Pledge Counter a copy but to hold on to the completed forms – so that they have the email and phone information to use to send everyone who pledged to vote to them a reminder to vote right before the Election.

The Leadership Team should have designated one student volunteer to be sure that the Election Eve reminder program happens. Some of the steps that person might take include:

• An announcement at a student assembly (or announcements over the PA system on the Thursday and/or Friday before the Election) that students who collected pledges should be sending reminders over the weekend or on Monday at the latest.
  
• Organized visits to every homeroom the week before the election to encourage all pledge collectors to send their reminders and an explanation as to how to do it.
  
• Messages in the school newspaper about the importance of every pledge collector contacting their pledgors – and how to do it.

The web site will provide helpful tools: A sample email card (coming soon!) that they may address to pledgors who left their email address for a reminder; and a sample telephone script (coming soon!) for calls to pledgors who left a phone number to call. (It is an ample reminder to call and leave a message on a recording device if the pledgor is not available.)

All those adults who pledged to vote on the web site itself and left an email for an Election Eve reminder will receive an automatic Freedom’s Answer email message.

Those who pledged to vote on the web site and left a phone number requesting a phone reminder, will have their numbers given to the students of the Freedom’s Answer Advisory Council of the state of their area code – and will receive a student follow-up call in a manner determined by the state Advisory Council students.

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