Today is Election Day, and if you are reading Daily Kos it’s a pretty safe bet that you will remember to vote—if you haven’t done so already. But you won’t BELIEVE how many people need that last-minute reminder to vote before the polls close.

That's why we need you today—on the phones right up until the polls close, to get out our very last Democrats out to vote.

I have volunteered in get-out-the-vote operations for 18 years, and it never ceases to amaze me how many people you catch around 6:00 p.m. after they come home from work. You will ask them if they voted yet, and they’ll respond: “Oh shit, that was TODAY?”

When I was in college, I was scrambling to get out last-minute votes in San Francisco for Tom Ammiano’s mayoral campaign. As 8:00 p.m. crept closer and closer, I scrambled through my Mission District precinct—eager to drag out the very last voter I could find.

At 7:59 p.m., I just stood outside of the polling place on Capp Street—and saw a man riding on his bicycle. I shouted “Excuse me, have you voted yet?” The man turned around, got off his bike, walked into the polling place—and cast a provisional ballot.