Sunday, November 4, 2007
Volunteering
Today I went down to the NDP Elphinstone Central Campaign office to get a quick briefing for volunteering during election day. There were approximately 15 volunteers present and the majority were over 70! I was definitely the only volunteer under the age of 35. I often hear that the NDP has a large following of older people and wow did this reinforce that idea!!! Understandably, the election is held on a Wednesday, so the majority of people available to volunteer are the retired, but still I was rather surprised by the age discrepancy. Originally I was not overly excited about volunteering for the election, but now I am excited for it and feel like I will be contributing for a party I believe in. Hopefully more young people will be out to volunteer as well & participate in the provincial election!
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I'm not going to lie, I'm volunteering on election day, and I think I'm about to experience something very similar. I'm really looking forward to it though, having the chance to actually see how things work and the behind the scenes look at our election system. I think you can learn a lot from people with more life experience than you and am looking forward to learning as much as possible from the people whom I end up working.
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