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Election Day - II

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In the last weeks of your campaign, your phone lists and yard sign lists and volunteer lists and donor lists were spread around to other locations to get the GOTV calling and people organized to distribute yard signs to their locations and calling for more volunteers to help with the final door to door literature, as well as a final financial plea for a few more dollars to do just one more ad in the paper or one more commercial on television . . . well, you need to get all those lists back . . . especially those lists with the names of your contributors on them.

If you ever want to run for office again, you will need those lists . . . they will be your most important asset.

If all your lists are on your campaigns computer, collecting the lists may be little more than just being sure that no one else has immediate access to them. Be sure an extra copy of them are stored on disks that are clearly marked and properly stored away.

If you have used the media, be sure that your buyer compares what you ordered versus what was aired . . . if there is an error, perhaps you could be owed some money.

After you have closed your campaign office down, be sure that you notify the post office that your address is moving so people can still get ahold of you.

Any equipment that can be returned, should be, any old equipment that can't be used again, should be thrown away and anything that may be used again, should be stored until the next election.

When it comes to your yard signs, each community has specific ordinances governing when they must be removed from their locations. Be sure to check . . . in some cases they must be taken off the yards by midnight the night before the election. Whereas, large commercial signage can be left up. Ask someone to clean the signs up and store them. Some of the sturdier wooden or metal signs may be reused if properly cared for.

Your political party may throw an election night party for all the candidates and workers to watch the results come in . . . others may just want to stay home and watch them on television . . .if you are a candidate or a family member of a candidate you will not be allowed to be in the place where the ballots are being counted. You are completely at the mercy of the reporters of the political news . . .and in the wee hours of the morning . .

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