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January, 2007
We had a great weekend in NC at the meeting! I’ve contacted folks we
had direct contact with at the meeting who expressed interest in
obtaining copies of BTP and gave them a link to our site. There were
a variety of ideas, including showing it to Democratic and
Republican county chairmen and state legislators, and I look forward
to following up with them to see if we can help or replicate their
successes.
 Tony
Sirvello, the IACREOT Exec Dir, said he was really pleased with how
well the movie was received. He thought the membership was actually
more excited by it than he’d anticipated and that it was still
a topic of conversation 2 days afterwards. He’s not sure if a
screening can be incorporated into the summer meeting, but he said
maybe we could get a booth at the summer fair where election device
vendors are set up and run the movie in a loop, offering the movie
(and I thought by then we’ll have our specific, targeted plan in
place and we can market it with the 700 or so IACREOT members in
attendance!). He also said he was considering whether IACREOT could
run the trailer on their site (to tease folks into wanting to watch
the movie and use it in their locations) with a link to our site to
obtain the movie. I am looking forward to maintaining the
relationship we’ve developed with Tony.
 Dick
Smolka was also supportive and said he’s contacting NASS and NASED
to recommend BTP to their membership and for inclusion in their
upcoming conferences. And he anticipates writing about the movie
(including information on where to obtain the movie) and will
provide me with a copy of whatever he writes…
Take a look at the Quick Start Poll Worker guide the EAC released
recently:
Quick
Start Poll Worker Guide
An exhaustive 250 page (or so) poll worker guide with lessons
learned, posters and ads that were successful, guidance for small
and large election areas, etc is scheduled to be released by the EAC
within a month or so – I’ll let you know when. I understand from my
discussions with the senior director of programs for IFES
(International Foundation for Election Systems which was given the
grant to develop the guide) that it will include many local success
stories we can build upon as well as guidance as to which states
allow high school aged people to perform as poll workers, etc. I’d
been looking for some infrastructure to build our program on and/or
guidance on what organizations have been doing successfully or what
areas needed attention: the soon-to-be-released guide sounds like
the resource we needed.
So I expect to continue working to gain knowledge and contacting
folks working in these fields, and to use the release of the poll
worker guide to drive / crystallize our plan to do something
constructive (providing resources to high schools and election
offices to get high school kids involved, to get corporations to
change their corporate policy and encourage employees to volunteer
as poll workers, etc).
Bo Ranney, National Strategic Coordinator
Photo 1:
Bo Ranney - BTP National Strategic Coordinator, Liza Politi - BTP
Producer, Malindi Fickle - BTP Producer/Director, Kris Lienert - BTP
Director of Photography/Editor
Photo 2: Doris Anne Saddler, Paul DeGregorio - Chairman of
the Election Assistance, Rockne Clarke - President of IACREOT and Bo
Ranney
Photo 3: Doris Anne Saddler, Rockne Clarke - President of
IACREOT, Dick Smolka - Editor of Election Administration Reports and
Bo Ranney
Photo 4: Connie Joiner - Education Chair of IACREOT with Bo
Ranney & Malindi Fickle |
IACREOT
