My sisters are still working on the cheerleaders - a few thousand or so. First attempt at an event with announcements, social media posts, and personal conversations did not yield much. They were busy at the time and did not want to bother. Now they are less busy. So we get to see what happens when a large group is personally addressed for the second time by someone they know an trust. This will happen all at once - let's see if the group leads to a vote spike. If 1% voted 3x - it would be about the expectation for a total of 90 votes. After all that I have done - addressing huge groups that in turn address huge groups - the actual number of people that are willing the suffer through the clunky process on their phone and then come back daily is very very small.
A huge number of real voters just cant deal with the fiddly process on their phones - I have spoken with many dozens of people that said they voted, but they never saw the CAPTCHA (meaning they did no actually vote at all). This makes it even harder (for everyone) because that difficulty is on top of the challenge to get anyone to care enough to vote in the first place. It does not take long to exhaust your own list of people you personally know. I was able to get a small number of people I personally know to vote from my list of about 600 on Facebook. Of the few that are voting, only a handful of them are voting daily. My wife has posted papers at her office and her circle is voting daily. They are asking clients to vote as they pass through, but very few actually do it - including the ones that say 'sure, no problem'.
Just to be clear and honest, I would likely never notice someone asking me to vote since I have programmed myself to ignore 99% of the Facebook and other social media noise. If I did notice someone asking for votes, I would have to know them and understand what I was voting for to even consider it. If I got all the way to the voting site and it was even slightly fiddly, weird, or difficult - I would likely go away and not come back. I personally saw this and read comments and direct messages that confirm that seems to be true with most people.
Huge bursts of social media coverage, personal appeals, emails, announcements at sporting events, and even silly videos have yet to create any discernible spike in my votes.
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