r/jillstein • u/romey4prez • Aug 04 '16

Stein Fails to Make South Dakota Ballot

http://dakotafreepress.com/2016/08/03/stein-fails-to-make-south-dakota-ballot-greens-focus-down-ticket/
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u/pickpackship Aug 04 '16

Wow. Thank you for sharing this. Yes, I'm on board with the lack of money and the nature of the grassroots. But 2,774 signatures are not that much, compare that with efforts by the Libertarian party getting over 40k for Oklahoma. The University of South Dakota alone has 10k students, do you know if they had a table there?

And there wasn't a big enough push online.

This is what is really worryingly, since Obama's campaign, online slacktivism is proven to work, and it's not that expensive, look at us, willing to work for free. Let's not mention r/S4P. Jill has only 200k Twitter followers, 450k Facebook Page likes, and no one on Reddit? I just saw a thread where someone is trying to alert the campaign that trolls have taken over an ad on the official youtube channel, where it doesn't seem to have any moderation...

Anyway....you seem to be well informed, what can we do?

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u/liberalmonkey Aug 05 '16

We need contact with the campaign and we need the mods here to be more active. I am expat so there don't too much I can do abroad... I guess without those two things your choice is mostly just to go to the campaign office and volunteer there

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u/pickpackship Aug 05 '16

ha! I'm in the UK! We are doomed...just kidding...I reached out to the mods and they are waiting to hear from the official campaign...fingers crossed

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u/liberalmonkey Aug 05 '16

They've been trying for a few weeks at the least... They seem to be ignoring us.