It was hired to help with
voter outreach by the Trump campaign, whose former campaign manager, Steve Bannon, had been on the company's board.
Not exact matches
Activists working with immigrant
voters say a «climate of fear» — stoked
by rising deportation arrests and the failure of Congress and Trump to strike a deal on DACA — is stirring greater interest in their
voter outreach efforts for the upcoming midterms.
But in the years in between, developers of everything from dating apps to
voter -
outreach tools used
by the Obama campaign, capitalized on Facebook's rules to extract massive amounts of data about Facebook users and their friends.
Political data nerds LOVE to use tools like the VAN backend
voter management system to slice and dice
outreach lists
by all kinds of criteria — age, location, voting history, and....
A number of vendors and polling firms also offer what seem to be quite sophisticated microtargeting - based
voter / donor
outreach, but I've also heard experienced direct mail database people say that the
by far the best predictor of a person's propensity to give money to a campaigh is his or her past history of donating — people who've donated before are more likely to donate again.
At the same time, they can be building up data on the electorate
by talking to
voters one - on - one and developing technologies and procedures to use that data to target their
outreach efficiently, effectively and repeatedly.
The early focus on strong Latino hiring and
outreach operations has been repeatedly called for
by Democrats who note that Clinton was popular among Latino
voters in the 2008 primary against Obama, but must show she is serious about addressing their concerns during this campaign.
«Cities that have adopted instant runoff voting to eliminate runoffs have not only saved millions of dollars but have also improved their democracies
by making sure that we are electing our leaders in an election where the most
voters, the most diverse
voters, are at the polls at one time,» said Grace Ramsey, deputy
outreach director for FairVote, a nonpartisan advocacy group, at the news conference.
Calls for
Voter Reform:
Voter turnout was low as usual for this week's elections, and on Tuesday, the «Vote Better NY» coalition, led
by NYC Votes, the
voter outreach arm of the city's Campaign Finance Board, along with other advocacy and good government organizations launched a petition drive to highlight the importance of election reform and call on lawmakers to pass legislation to modernize elections in New York.
But Dustin Reidy, who recently started a
voter outreach group called NY 19 Votes, said the district could succeed with someone, man or woman, black or white, «who can really connect with
voters by talking about the bottom line — wages, pocketbook issues.»
Just last week, we facilitated Student Voter Registration Day, an annual program initiated
by Council Member Helen Rosenthal, and we're funding
outreach to register 10,000 new youth
voters.
In special elections or run - offs where turn out is traditionally lower, campaigns should use absentee
voter outreach as a way to increase
voter turnout
by providing an easy way for
voters to vote.
In total, companies led
by Sproul have received $ 21 million from Republican campaign committees for
voter outreach work since 2004.
We also fought off a «right to farm» measure in Oklahoma, but, despite the efforts of our rural
outreach team, a similar measure squeaked
by voters in Missouri
by less than half of one percent of the vote.
At the Kochs» most recent political strategy and fundraising meeting, the Kochs prioritized
outreach to Hispanic
voters, according to leaked material published
by Mother Jones.
One of the founding directors of Global Science Research, the firm hired
by the Trump campaign's data - targeting firm, Cambridge Analytica, to harvest Facebook user data for its
voter -
outreach operation, now works at Facebook as a human computer interaction researcher.