Facebanking: MEGA event pages for NY, PA, WA, and AZ are LIVE
EDIT (03/15/16): A portion of a post i'd like to share from our OH March 15th event. Proof that your facebanking efforts are making a difference.
"Put in my vote this morning. Ended up switching to Bernie because of his clear organizational edge and superior volunteer effort. In short, you facebankers changed my mind on his electability. Not because of the issues, but because of your dedication.
What to volunteer to be a Facebank captain, learn more about facebanking, or hangout with a group of cool people?
Fact: In Michigan, youth turnout was HUGE. More people under 29 voted than over 65!
Theory: Facebanking played a role in getting people to go out and vote.
What is Facebanking?: A way to find friends (and friends of friends!) on facebook who like Bernie Sanders AND who live in a state that is going to vote soon. You then invite them to a private event so that they are reminded of the time they can go vote. Within the event page they can see information regarding voter registration, polling location, and more.
Implementation: Rather than ask reddit users to create their own small event, we provide a MEGA event for each state. There are five immediate benefits of this approach: (1) it prevents people from getting spammed by multiple invites to separate events for the same state; (2) it allows us to better track progress of getting people to confirm to voting, and by nature of how we are creating the event it will grow exponentially; (3) the events evolve into their own community in which prospective voters may have their voting and registration questions answered in a timely manner; (4) it allows us to coordinate with the campaign and push out vital information via post which sends a facebook notification to large numbers of prospective voters; (5) a person is more psychologically inclined to accept an invitation to and read the details of a large event.
Remember, these are PRIVATE events. So in order to start inviting people to them, you need to first get invited to the event yourself---which requires you to be a friend of one of our CAPTAINS (reddit users who have sacrificed their personal facebook accounts for the sole purpose of getting you into our events so that you may start facebanking)
Here's what you need to do to get started:
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If you have not yet been invited to ALL 9 of our events, go to http://feelthebern.events/ and submit your facebook URL. (Note: your account must be set to receive friend requests from "Everyone")
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One of our Facebank Captains will receive your facebook URL and send you a facebook friend request. If you do not receive a request within 15-30 minutes, either we have no captains online or you didn't look at the note in step 1.
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After you friend your Facebank Captain, he/she will invite you to ALL of our private events that you are not currently in. The current live events are IL, OH, MO, FL, NC, NY, PA, WA, and AZ.
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Go back to http://feelthebern.events/ and follow the instructions to facebank all of your friends and friends-of-friends who like Bernie into the corresponding state event!
IMPORTANT NOTES:
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If you have a YUGE amount of friends or FOFs, your browser may crash. Using Firefox 64bit seems to result in a crash-free facebanking.
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Do not invite more than 500 people TOTAL per day using this tool or you will be blocked for 24 hours.
Questions/Comments/Concerns? PM one of the co-hosts below:
Posted Mar 13, 2016, 10:59 PM UTC · edited