I remember helping to put stickers on lit pieces to show the polling place for a particular ward. Then an army of volunteers would fan out on the last weekend and deliver these lit pieces, showing the Democratic candidates, to the proper wards (you were given a map showing the proper boundaries and delivered inside those lines). Every house got one, not just the few that were on a walk list and might not even live in that location any more. In many areas of Milwaukee, about 99% are Democrats. This makes more sense to me than the system that is in fashion now. I would just do it earlier than the last weekend in order to include early voting.
In this election, a majority of voters I talked with in the central city had no idea there was an election coming up. Some said they vote in every election, but obviously only in the ones they know about. Most did not understand that "Democrat" would not appear on the ballot. Especially in a nonpartisan election, but really in all of them, they need a piece of lit including the fact that an election is being held, who the Democrats support, where to vote, what they need to bring in case they need to register, and encouragement to take the information along to the polls. That's how to realize the power of the Democratic majority in the city of Milwaukee.
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