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canvassing

Soliciting for a candidate, political party, trade, or business. In Britain some local constituency parties conduct periodic canvasses between elections, as well as during election campaigns, in order to identify the location of their supporters and maximize the efficiency of their electoral organization, especially in the use of cars to take voters to polling stations.



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For lesbian and gay political activists, asking for votes in Bella Vista--a progressive urban community on the edge of south Philadelphia just a stone's throw from the city's main gay neighborhood--is like trick-or-treating in subarbia, and canvassers usually get lots of treats.
Three hundred thousand signatures were required to put the initiative on the ballot, and over 360,000 signatures were obtained and validated by the Board of State Canvassers.
He didn't start as a cold-call canvasser where a lot of our top brokers have.
 
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