Despite the sense from voters that most of the races were already decided, a steady stream of
voters filed into poll sites throughout Inwood and Washington Heights Tuesday.
MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Wisconsin
voters filed into polling stations Tuesday to decide whether to give Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett a rematch against Republican Gov. Scott Walker in next month's rare recall election or whether to back one of Barrett's fellow Democrats.
Not exact matches
TechPresident reports that the Obama campaign tested their new «Dashboard» system to let volunteers from around the country make calls
into Wisconsin, the AFL - CIO has trialed software that matches
voter lists with volunteers» Facebook friends to let them call targets that they actually know rather than total strangers, and the Walker campaign combined VoIP with digital
voter files to automate the connection between identification calls and data entry.
As you gather these data, you feed them back
into the
voter file and — here's the key part — adjust your models (and hence your outreach targeting) accordingly.
So you'll also be asked to enter data
into VoteBuilder, the Democratic Party's digital
voter file, whether you have a smart phone to keep in touch with the campaign, to do distributed phone banking from home via an online integrated platform, and to lend data and profile updates from your social networking profiles (Facebook, Twitter, etc) to the campaign.
First, you can hook
into the National Change of Address database to make sure the data in your
voter file is up - to - date (folks in this country move more often than we have elections).
In the first meetings with partner groups like Planned Parenthood and the League of Conservation
Voters, «we decided to make sure that everyone was using the same data and working out of the same database,» he said, allowing the groups to feed the supporter data they were gathering
into one
file.
That information is then fed right
into the DFL Party's
voter files.