Certainly I wouldn't argue your point that the money could be used in more productive ways, but the purpose of knocking on doors isn't to change peoples' minds, but rather to find the people who DO support your guy, so that come election day you can make sure they get out to vote.
For example, senior citizens are VERY important electorally, and many of them have mobility trouble. You want to know where they are, so your 'Republicrat Election Funbus' can come pick them up and take them to the polling station.
US elections are an adversarial system run almost entirely by volunteers. If you don't like how it works in your area or think it disadvantages your guy, you don't have to wait for anyone else's permission to do something about it, you can just create a polling place or volunteer at one, or go help people vote.
There is no shortage of money, they can support all the volunteers they can get.
What? Each state board of elections is usually partisan. The number of voting places and their resources is designated by someone who is most certainly partisan. Virtually all places that had huge lines, take a wild guess if it was the left or right that was responsible.
Never thought of it that way! I was watching on the news and wondering where the hell those places were though. I've never even sniffed a legitimate line when I've voted. I have always voted in highly Democratic areas.
I live in a reliably Democratic area of California and I've both seen and been in long poll lines.
I'm not saying there isn't somewhere where local politicians are conspiring to suppress turnout, but often long lines are just a matter of understaffed or under-hosted polling places, which presumably means that the various campaigns would rather have their election-day volunteers calling people or driving them around than running a polling place.
Are you in the US? The reason I ask is that your comment seemed reasonable to me (non-US) and yet you seem to be getting down voted so was wondering if this was a US/non-US divide showing.
For example, senior citizens are VERY important electorally, and many of them have mobility trouble. You want to know where they are, so your 'Republicrat Election Funbus' can come pick them up and take them to the polling station.