The Corparation wrote:Also it's not that difficult to get someone to sign when you've already snagged a person with a clipboard worth of petitions after sweet talking them about how we need to save puppies oh and also sign all of these other things while you have the clipboard.
Yeah, that's where you can tell the honest volunteers from the people being paid to get signatures. The honest volunteers will only have a couple of petitions with no real order to their presentation. The paid collectors have a big ol' pile of them and start the stack off with a lot of generally agreeable things about schools or animal cruelty and so on, and sneak the disagreeable one (split the state, abortion restrictions, etc) at the end hoping people will just blank out and sign whatever's in front of them.
I freely admit to having more fun than I should frustrating the latter, because I insist on reading every single thing thoroughly. The honest volunteers are generally all, "Yeah, that's cool." The paid collectors get fussy and impatient as I take my time reading over everything. So they get me through the agreeable ones... and then they get so absurdly frustrated and argumentative when I want to read the disagreeable one instead of blindly signing it. The really obnoxious ones will try to argue at length why I should sign the disagreeable one and so on and so forth. It's great fun when I've got some free time. ^_^