We found that taking a certain approach got a lot more appreciation, smiles and interaction and more...

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There were four or five of us working the poles handing out literature, particularly sample Democratic ballots. We would say different things, like

- would you like some information

Or

-Sample ballot?

And most people would accept them paper and walk into vote.

But then I changed my message to

--would you like a democratic sample ballot?

And a response changed with remarkable. Instead of people just nodding and accepting it they would smile and their eyes would light up and they'd give a big thank you and then some when they walked out would thank us too which was not happening before.

The difference is when you say you're handing out the Democratic sample ballot, you're letting them know that you're part of the Democratic Party working to make a difference. Just adding that one word creates branding for all the people out there so that the voters realize that they have a team who are spending their time working on getting Democratic goals achieved. That's a lot more important than just handing out literature with the sample ballot.

From the point of the view of the poll workers, changing the wording slightly gets a much warmer friendlier response from everybody and that makes a real difference when you're putting in 10 or 12 hours working the polls in one day.

When you offer it to someone who's a Republican they usually say I already know what I'm going to do. Rarely they get nasty for example, one called me a Dumocrat. But they say the same thing even if you don't mention that it's democratic literature.

It's amazing it's such a simple word change makes the job so much more pleasant and more effective. Do you have winning strategies that make a difference when you are doing poll work?

Authors Bio:

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect, connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.

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He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity

He's given talks and workshops to Fortune 500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful people on his Bottom Up Radio Show, and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and opinion sites, OpEdNews.com

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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.

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