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Long before it was my privilege to know and work with Kerrie Dickson (former two time Georgia Green Party nominee for Labor Commissioner of Georgia) she purchased a farm in Oglethorpe County, where she raised three of her own children, two step children and at various times more foster children that I could ever hope to keep up with.  She organized wolfers to build 7,000 linear feet of raised beds producing organic vegetables for home and market while paying off that mortgage applying a range of skills working in Athens, owning a restaurant, as a nurse and in and around town running the fam

But the point is that for the average voter, whose democratic engagement is limited to perhaps researching, but certainly marking and casting a ballot, an election cycle might last only a few days, perhaps weeks if there are debates to pay attention to.

For political organizers, our experience is much different. For those of us who organize here in the United States, the General Election cycle runs slightly more than two years. It begins the moment the polls close on the preceding election cycle. It continues past the date that the polls close on the next election cycle. An election cycle ends only once the results of that election have been certified and the judicial challenges to those results have been resolved.