This Year For Halloween, Go Trick-or-Voting!
by T. Eve Greenaway and Chinyere Tutashinda, AlterNet.org
By going
door-to-door in costume, offering up treats, voting tips and directions
to polling places, this year’s trick-or-voters will also be spreading
the word: there has never been a better time to make politics fun.
“People
are already expecting you to knock on their door on Halloween. So it’s
the one day of the year where people will be home and ready to answer
the door,” says Sarita “the Great Witch” Ryan, an organizer for Trick
or Vote. “This way, it’ll be fun for everybody involved, not just
another [election] canvasser coming by.”
The idea
is simple enough. This year, Halloween falls just two days before what
many are calling the “most important election of our lifetime.” And,
while most of us have had it up to here with both Bush and Kerry –
their voices on the radio, their mugs all over the television and on
the front of all the newspapers – young people everywhere are using
this holiday to remind each other that the election is as much about
one another, and the issues we care about, as it is about the
candidates. By going door-to-door in costume, offering up directions to
polling places, reminders to bring an ID, and Halloween classics like
Tootsie Rolls and Pal bubblegum, this year’s trick-or-voters will also
be spreading the word: politics and fun are not opposing forces.
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