EditorialCanvassers look on as Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) campaigns for re-election in Phoenix on Monday, Nov. 7, 2022. (Ilana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times)
EditorialRep. Lee Zeldin, the New York State Republican gubernatorial candidate, addresses volunteers and canvassers outside the Suffolk County GOP headquarters in Medford, on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022. (Johnny Milano/The New York Times)
EditorialRep. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.) speaks to canvassers at his campaign office on Election Day in Basking Ridge, N.J., Nov. 8, 2022. (Bryan Anselm/The New York Times)
EditorialCanvassers look on as Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) campaigns for re-election in Phoenix on Monday, Nov. 7, 2022. (Ilana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times)
EditorialCanvassers with the far-right Otzma Yehudit party hand out flyers outside a polling station in Nov Hagalil, Israel, as the country held its fifth parliamentary election in less than four years, on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. (Amit Elkayam/The New York Times)
EditorialCanvassers wait to speak to prospective voters at a polling station at St. Paul's Church in Bradford, England, May 5, 2022. (Mary Turner/The New York Times)
EditorialCanvassers are briefed before splitting into groups and heading out to speak with residents about a Minneapolis ballot measure on Oct. 10, 2021. (Aaron Nesheim/The New York Times)
EditorialCanvassers for an immigrant advocacy group pitched Gov. Gavin Newsom to voters in Palmdale, Calif., on Aug. 5, 2021. (Rozette Rago/The New York Times)
EditorialCanvassers for an immigrant advocacy group prepare to pitch Gov. Gavin Newsom to voters in Palmdale, Calif. on Aug. 5, 2021. (Rozette Rago/The New York Times)
EditorialGeorgia Stand-Up canvassers gather at an event in Morrow, Ga., on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, as Georgia voters go to the polls to choose two senators in races that will decide which party controls the Senate. (Audra Melton/The New York Times)
EditorialCanvassers with Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff at an event in Eatonton, Ga., on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2020. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
EditorialWorkers with the Detroit Department of Elections count absentee ballots in the city on Wednesday morning, Nov. 4 2020. (Brittany Greeson/The New York Times)
EditorialAn Ingham County official stood by the poll books and tabulation tapes from the County’s voting precincts as sworn canvassers prepared to begin the process of canvassing, in Mason, Mich., Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, a day after Election Day. (Bryan Denton/The New York Times)
EditorialCanvassers for the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, which helps ex-felons register to vote, in Miami, Oct. 2, 2020. (Saul Martinez/The New York Times)
EditorialCanvassers for the Susan B. Anthony List, a prominent anti-abortion group, on their way to encourage voters to support candidates who oppose abortion in Avon, Ind., July 16, 2018. (Sally Ryan/The New York Times)
EditorialSupporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at a field office during the Iowa caucus in West Des Moines, Iowa, Feb. 3, 2020. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)
EditorialWorking Families Party National Director Maurice Mitchell addresses the Working Families Party Convention at First Corinthian Baptist Church in New York, on May 19, 2018. (Holly Pickett/The New York Times)
EditorialCanvassers for Pete Buttigieg prepare to knock on doors on the morning of the South Carolina Democratic Primary, in Columbia, S.C., Feb. 29, 2020. (Travis Dove/The New York Times)
EditorialA sign of encouragement to canvassers hangs in a campaign field office visited by Former Vice President Joe Biden in Waterloo, Iowa, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020. (Brittainy Newman/The New York Times)