Jon Tester for U.S. Senate

If you have any questions about where to vote or need help getting to the polls, please call the Voter Hotline at 1-877-495-9215.

Today, Montanans have the opportunity to vote for change and elect Jon Tester to the United States Senate.

Please vote early today and bring at least five friends, coworkers or family members with you to the polls. Polls in most locations open at 7 a.m. Polls statewide close at 8 p.m.*

For a full list of polling places, click here (opens in PDF), or call the Voter Hotline at 1-877-495-9215.

Not yet registered to vote? You can still cast your ballot on Election Day. Any Montanan age 18 or over can register to vote and can cast their ballot on Election Day at your local election office. (Be sure to bring an ID — and invite your friends and coworkers to go with you and to cast their ballots early as well.)

Want to do more or already voted? Here’s what you can do:

• Volunteer on Election Day to help Get Out the Vote. Please call your local campaign office today and volunteer to help folks get to the polls. We need poll watchers; people to make phone calls to voters; and people to drive voters who need help getting to the polls. A few hours of your time could make the difference in a race this tight.
• Talk to People You Know and Bring Them to the Polls: Don’t be silent in the next 24 hours. There are still voters who have not made up their minds, or who aren’t sure that their vote matters, or who have been misled by attack ads distorting Jon Tester’s record of fighting for Montana’s working families. Talk to co-workers and neighbors about voting for Jon Tester. Let them know that every major paper in Montana has endorsed Jon Tester’s campaign for change. Offer to give them a ride to the polls, or go with them when they vote. Speaking to the people you know is the surest way to send a loud message of change to Washington, D.C. tomorrow.

*(Some polling places with less than 200 voters may open at noon; call the Voter Hotline or your local elections office to confirm.)

If you have any problems casting your ballot or witness any irregularities, or if you need help locating or getting to your polling place, please call the Voter Hotline at 1-877-495-9215.

Montanans for Tester Campaign Manager Stepahnie Schriock sent the following email to supporters today:

With just 24 hours until the polls close, everyone can see the finish line, and the polls show that this is still a close race.

We are to the point where very call we make, every door we knock, every neighbor we talk to all add up to victory when the votes get counted tomorrow night.

Please volunteer your time, and keep up the hard work all the way up until the polls close at 8:00 p.m. tomorrow.

We still have 24 hours to affect the outcome of this race. Believe me, Sen. Burns and his operatives will do anything to hold onto power. They are trying to confuse and intimidate voters with nearly a hundred out of state attorneys. That means we must do everything to turn our friends out to vote for Jon Tester tomorrow because that is the way we do things here in Montana.

And make sure you get out and vote. For more information about voting, click here.

Together, with another full day of hard work, we will, working together, elect Jon Tester to serve our great state as the next member of the United States Senate.

And the other side won’t know what hit them.

Thank you for all that you do.

Stephanie Schriock
Campaign Manager
Montanans for Tester

P.S. If you see any irregularities or something just doesn’t seem right at the polls, call the Voter Hotline at 1-877-495-9215.

McJoan reports from the Countdown to Change Rally today in Billings:

Close your eyes. Now visualize five people you know who might not vote. Busy single mothers. An elderly neighbor or relative. A harried coworker. Now visualize getting them to the polls. Now get on the phone with them and tell them that you’re going to help them vote tomorrow, and figure out just how you’re going to do that.

Schweitzer had a room full of people in Billings standing there with their eyes closed, trying to come up with five people they thought might not vote. Even the firefighters, with their bright yellow Team Tester t-shirts got quiet and closed their eyes when Schweitzer told them to. And getting this room quiet was a major accomplishment. Jon was trying to do a TV interview in one corner of the room, and the crowd kept erupting into chants of TESTER! TESTER! TESTER! Volunteers were at every entrance and exit, making sure they corralled every possible GOTV worker they could cull from the crowd. They set up an impromptu phone bank for all the people that had cell phones with them. The GOP and their 72-hour business has nothing on Montana Democrats, I can tell you that.

So all of you out there, try Schweitzer’s excercise. Close your eyes now. You must know five people who could use some help tomorrow. Or you’ll know someone who will know five people. Between the two of you, you can get them out to the polls.

Need help getting your 5 people (or yourself) to the polls tomorrow? Call the Voter Hotline, or call your local Field Office to volunteer tomorrow.

GOTV!

We need your help to Get Out The Vote for Jon Tester. Please contact an office in your community to help out.

Billings
445 Daniel
Contact: Taryn Vogel
254-9305

Bozeman
422 E Mendenhall St.
Contact: Anthony Kusich
587-0411

Butte
7 S Main St.
Contact: Brandon Pinette
782-4049

Glendive
221 W Towne St.
Contact: Megan Jacobs
365-7978

Great Falls
1112 Seventh St. S
Contact: Jack Shapiro
453-5702

Havre
307 Third Ave.
Contact: Allen “Woody” Woodwick
265-3408

Helena
303 N Ewing St.
Contact: Drew Dickerson
442-9520

Kalispell
280 Fourth Ave. W N
Contact: Neil Yoke
257-4350

Missoula
500 N Higgins, Suite 100
Contact: Dayna Swanson
543-1521

With today’s endorsements from the Helena Independent Record and the Bozeman Daily Chronicle (link not yet available), Big Sandy farmer Jon Tester has received support for his U.S. Senate bid from all major newspapers in Montana.

In the last week Tester received endorsements from the Great Falls Tribune, Butte’s Montana Standard, and the Billings Gazette, Montana’s largest newspaper.

Click here to download, print and post a flyer about Jon Tester’s major newspaper endorsements (PDF).

Today’s endorsement from Bozeman Daily Chronicle praises Tester’s plans to address Montana’s “rock-bottom wages,” develop rural communities, prioritize education and “to take an honest look at the status of the war in Iraq.”

The Daily Chronicle says Sen. Conrad Burns experience in Washington is “not enough.”

“[Burns’] inability to censor himself–as evidenced by his vocal outbursts against wildland firefighters, flight attendants, Arabs, African-Americans and even cab drivers–never seems to embarrass him as much as it does the rest of us,” the paper writes.

The endorsement from the Helena Independent Record says, “It seems clear that Montana and Congress need a strong dose of fresh air, and Tester is just the ticket.”

The paper also suggests Sen. Burns’ experience in Congress is a possible detriment to Montana.

“Much has been made of Burns’ seniority in the Senate, but that advantage would lessen considerably in the event that Democrats end up in control of one or both houses of Congress, a real possibility,” the Independent Record writes. “Besides, seniority is an issue that can only be postponed, never put to rest.”

Tester has also committed to being part of “a solution rather than a continuation of the status quo,” the paper writes. Tester will bring change, honesty and integrity to Washington, and he will fight for tax cuts that benefit middle class families.