Okay, so a quick thread on "do you have a plan to vote?"
If you've done any phonebanking or door-knocking for GOTV in the last few years, you know that "Do you have a plan to vote?" is an essential—maybe the essential—question you're supposed to ask. That's because it works.
A lot of people intend to vote, but don't get around to it. A meeting runs late, or an errand runs long, or they forget until after they're home and changed into a tee shirt and pyjama pants. It happens. Stuff happens.
But it turns out that stuff happens a lot LESS if you make a plan to vote. That's it—just decide before election day, or before you leave the house, when you're going to plug in voting to your daily routine. People with a plan to vote are much less likely to flake. It's science.
So when you're doing GOTV, you ask people if they've got a plan to vote. Some campaign flyers these days even have a place for the canvasser to write down what time the voter says they're going to head out.
Because it's not just MAKING a plan to vote that helps, it's TELLING SOMEONE WHAT THAT PLAN IS. Because telling someone makes it a commitment to another person, and we take commitments to other people more seriously than commitments to ourselves. (Sadly.)
So if you're doing GOTV work, and they give you a "plan to vote" script, make sure you use it, or a variation on it. It's really important.
(And once again, if you want to do GOTV work, but don't know how to sign up or who to sign up with, DM me and we'll find you a campaign together and get you set up.)
And even if you're not doing GOTV work, if you're the kind of person who's gonna be asking their friends if they're voting—or if they've voted—ask them if they've got a plan to vote as well.
It's as simple as a text saying "Hey. Do you know when you're voting yet?" If they say yes, ask when. Boom. Done.
And either in a formal or an informal setting, making sure that people you're talking to know WHERE they're voting is crucial, and easy to fold into the "plan to vote" conversation.
I'm voting by absentee ballot, and I'm mailing my ballot tonight, after I confer with my kids about a couple of races they have an interest in. That's my plan to vote. Do YOU have a plan to vote?
Oh, yeah: If someone's not sure when they're gonna vote, encourage them to do it as early in the day (or early voting window) as possible. Fewer chances for things to go awry.
Update: #ivoted 
