This month LDHQ are holding special Get Out The Vote workshops around the country. You’ll be able to talk to local Connect experts, practice real-life scenarios, learn how to run a committee room and understand polling day stats. Sign up to your nearest workshop here – you can drop in between 10am and 4pm whenever it suits you, as sessions will be repeated throughout the day.
The venues are:
Saturday 21st March – Winchester
Saturday 21st March – Watford
Saturday 21st March – Ashfield
Sunday 22nd March – Solihull
Sunday 22nd March – Bristol
Sunday 22nd March – Cambridge
Saturday 28th March – Stockport
Saturday 28th March – Inverness
Saturday 28th March – Southwark
Sunday 29th March – Leeds
Sunday 29th March – Edinburgh
Sunday 29th March – Colchester
What’s happening on the day…
The training sessions will consist of bite-size training sessions, repeated frequently throughout the day, short presentations and many practical exercises designed to help you learn by doing
The workshops will be split up into four rooms:
Room 1 – the detail
Why we do GOTV
Creating the Shuttleworth
Room 2 Postal Voters
Before, during and after Postal Vote Polling day
Knocking up your postal voters
Room 3 Your Committee Room
Your Committee Room Checklist
Motivating volunteers to go out and knock up
Understanding your stats on polling da
Room 4 – the mechanics
Cutting and printing turfs
managing turfs throughout polling day
telling data – how to enter and interpret it
If you can’t make any of these sessions (and we strongly recommend you do) there are sessions at Liverpool federal conference and videos and crib sheets on the OSKAR part of the members section of the Lib Dem website.