{"id":48919,"date":"2020-11-03T12:03:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T17:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sogolytics.com\/blog\/?p=48919"},"modified":"2025-04-15T07:48:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:48:02","slug":"vote-the-citizen-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sogolytics.com\/blog\/vote-the-citizen-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"SogoVote: The Citizen Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"div-minispacer\"><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;d planned this as a brief post, but it really all does come down to just that single word.<\/p>\n<div class=\"div-spacer\"><\/div>\n<h2>The Citizen Experience<\/h2>\n<div class=\"div-minispacer\"><\/div>\n<p>We spend a lot of time discussing customer experience and employee experience, but today is about citizen experience. For those of us in the US, today is a critical touchpoint in our ongoing American experience, but it&#8217;s not the complete picture.<\/p>\n<div class=\"div-minispacer\"><\/div>\n<p>On Election Day &#8212; and beyond &#8212; decisions are made by those who show up. Unfortunately, that common saying\u00a0 &#8212; &#8220;If you don&#8217;t vote, you can&#8217;t complain.&#8221; &#8212; isn&#8217;t exactly true. Everyone can complain, and plenty do, but timing is critical here. This year, we&#8217;ve had an extended election season, with more of us than ever being presented with a wide range of voting choices and opportunities rather than a single day-long window. If you&#8217;re still waiting for your cue,\u00a0<em>this is the moment.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"div-minispacer\"><\/div>\n<p>It might not surprise you to learn &#8212; or be reminded &#8212; that we believe very strongly in the importance of feedback, and this kind of opportunity to provide direct feedback en masse doesn&#8217;t come around all that often.<\/p>\n<div class=\"div-minispacer\"><\/div>\n<p>Elections are always important, whether you view them as\u00a0<em>the most important election of my lifetime<\/em> or simply <em>my civic duty<\/em> as a member of a democracy. You don&#8217;t need a speech here to be reminded that <em>democracy is of, for, and by the people<\/em> or that <em>this is what democracy looks like<\/em>. This touchpoint matters. Feedback makes a difference. You get it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"div-spacer\"><\/div>\n<h2>Vote.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"div-minispacer\"><\/div>\n<p>So, if you haven&#8217;t already, go get it done.<\/p>\n<div class=\"div-minispacer\"><\/div>\n<p>And tomorrow &#8212; and the next day, and the next day &#8212; remember that decisions are still made by those who show up. Be present. Be engaged. Keep the conversation going. Build your community. Grow the future. The citizen experience is more than just a single moment &#8212; it&#8217;s all the moments still to come.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-48921\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sogolytics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201031_124943-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Voting sign on Election Day\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sogolytics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201031_124943-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sogolytics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201031_124943-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sogolytics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201031_124943-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sogolytics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201031_124943-50x38.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vote. I&#8217;d planned this as a brief post, but it really all does come down to just that single word. The Citizen Experience We spend a lot of time discussing customer experience and employee experience, but today is about citizen experience. For those of us in the US, today is a critical touchpoint in our ongoing American experience, but it&#8217;s not the complete picture. On Election Day &#8212; and beyond &#8212; decisions are made by those who show up. Unfortunately, that common saying\u00a0 &#8212; &#8220;If you don&#8217;t vote, you can&#8217;t complain.&#8221; &#8212; isn&#8217;t exactly true. Everyone can complain, and plenty do, but timing is critical here. This year, we&#8217;ve had an extended election season, with more of us than ever being presented with a wide range of voting choices and opportunities rather than a single day-long window. If you&#8217;re still waiting for your cue,\u00a0this is the moment. It might not surprise you to learn &#8212; or be reminded &#8212; that we believe very strongly in the importance of feedback, and this kind of opportunity to provide direct feedback en masse doesn&#8217;t come around all that often. Elections are always important, whether you view them as\u00a0the most important election of my lifetime or simply my civic duty as a member of a democracy. You don&#8217;t need a speech here to be reminded that democracy is of, for, and by the people or that this is what democracy looks like. This touchpoint matters. Feedback makes a difference. You get it. Vote. So, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,75],"tags":[555,465,25,556,554],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.7.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SogoVote: The Citizen Experience - Sogolytics Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Election Day -- or season! -- isn&#039;t the only touchpoint in the citizen experience, but it&#039;s a big one. 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