No time to be embarrassed

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One of my favorite volunteers in 2008 was a voter registration machine named Louise. Everywhere she went, Louise went with a pile of blank voter registration forms. And everywhere she went, Louise registered voters - by the hundreds.

If you were waiting tables in a restaurant where Louise was having dinner, she probably registered you to vote. If you were taking a break in the employee lounge at the movie theater, the lady who interrupted your break and registered you to vote? Louise.

One day--probably the day Louise showed up at her son's college and registered all his friends-her children told her enough was enough, they were getting embarrassed by all of this. "I don't have time to be embarrassed!" was her answer. "This is history!"

In 2016 we all have to be a little bit like Louise. We have to get over being embarrassed, or looking silly, and do the little things to win in November, even if they cause us a little bit of discomfort.

Not everybody can be as bold as Louise, but there are any number of small ways you can further the cause. One of the best ways is circulating information.

Knowledge is power, after all. It's possible we lost 40,000 or more votes in 2014 because people weren't aware of changes to election law brought about by the Voter Information Verification Act. 40,000 votes is a lot of power to just leave on the table because information wasn't circulated properly.

So forward those links, share with your friends. Create those networks of information that can change the world. You can be a little bit embarrassed now, or you can be ashamed of NC for another four years.