It’s crunch time. There are only 7 days left before the runoff election in Georgia on January 5th. Sunrisers and partners here in the Atlanta area are hard at work knocking doors and encouraging folks to text their friends to get as many young people to the polls as possible.
In the last few weeks, phone bank volunteers made over half a million dials to voters in Georgia. We’ve welcomed over a thousand people to our phone banks, many for the first time. But in this final week before the election, we’re not seeing as many people as we hoped sign up for the last days of phonebanking.