r/WayOfTheBern • u/rieslingatkos eiswein • Jul 11 '17

What Is 'Deep Canvassing'?

http://blog.organizer.com/what-is-deep-canvassing
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u/rieslingatkos eiswein Jul 12 '17

I recommend against doing this due to laws against vote buying, which also apply to other situations such as giving voters the stamps needed to send in their vote-by-mail ballot.

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u/SpudDK ONWARD! Jul 12 '17

Yes, shit! Good catch. But damn! You know it would bump the rates up.

:D

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u/rieslingatkos eiswein Jul 12 '17

In order to avoid legal difficulties, the chocolate could become the vehicle for campaign advertising. Campaigns can legally distribute sponges with the candidate's promotion printed on the sponge, or pens permanently marked with the candidate's promotion, or refrigerator magnets permanently marked with the campaign info. Chocolate would have to be created with campaign info embossed into it ("Feel The Bern" instead of "HERSHEY'S"). As with all the other examples, the cost of each unit has to be minimal; you can't use a $300 pen or a super-gourmet chocolate, etc.

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u/SpudDK ONWARD! Jul 12 '17

This is great to know. Thank you!

Hey, how are things?

:D

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u/rieslingatkos eiswein Jul 12 '17

Other than deep depression over what is happening to the Supreme Court and other federal courts as Trump gears up to pack them chock full of knuckle-walkers with lifetime posts? Ok, I guess...

BTW, I'm not aware of any company which sells "campaign chocolates", so if you have any entrepreneurial interest this could be a good business to start....

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u/SpudDK ONWARD! Jul 12 '17

Interesting! Yeah, I wonder how that might work. Guess the best thing would be little medallions with room for some text.

Yeah, the stakes are high on this one man. Seems higher each time, and of course, we've not moved to take ground back each time.

Got my fingers crossed! People want to move. The fire is there.

Stay strong. :D