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How to Buy a Voter List in Any State: A Direct Guide for Campaigns

A campaign manager running a multi-state effort sits down on a Tuesday morning with four blank tabs open. Michigan. Texas. Florida. California. Each one is a different state. Each one has its own SOS office, its own pricing, its own rules about who can buy the file and what they can do with it once they have it. Each tab is a different process. This is the article she would have wanted before open...

10 Field Operations Data Mistakes That Cost Campaigns Real Money

There is a particular slide in every campaign's post-mortem deck. It's titled "Lessons Learned." The bullets on it are always the same. Different campaign, different vertical, different year — same bullets. The data was bad. The data was late. The data was duplicated. Nobody used it. Field operations live and die on the quality of the list, the freshness of the dispositions, and the discipline of...

Revolutionizing Canvassing Efforts: Introducing Walklists, the Ultimate Canvassing Software Platform

Introduction: In the world of political campaigns and grassroots activism, efficient and organized canvassing is crucial for reaching out to voters and driving meaningful change. However, traditional canvassing methods often lack the necessary tools and coordination to maximize outreach efforts. Enter Walklists, a groundbreaking canvassing software platform that is set to revolutionize the way cam...

Maximizing Canvassing Success: The Importance of Relevance in Creating Accurate Walklists with Walklists.com

The relevance feature allows users to assign a relevance score to each address in their walklist. This score ranges from 0.00 to 1.00 and represents the accuracy of the address location. For example, an address with a relevance score of 1.00 would be a pinpoint location, while an address with a relevance score of 0.50 might be a general location such as a street or neighborhood. By using this feat...

Hillary Scholten's Path to Victory in MI-3 is Based on Mathematics

Michigan's 3rd congressional district is the smallest in Michigan by voter population and includes Grand Rapids, Muskegon, and Grand Haven, touching Lake Michigan's shores. The voter population at one point was 561,206 ( Scale Campaign , L2 Data ) voters before the 2022 midterm election. The 3rd district became recently popular nationally with the saga between representative (...

How to Prepare a Canvassing Campaign with Walk Lists

It's 6:47 pm on a Tuesday in late October. Maria has knocked forty-one doors. Three to go. The route was supposed to take four hours. It took six and a half. Twelve of the houses had the wrong number — close, but the canvasser before her knocked there last week and her supervisor never updated the list. Two of the houses don't exist. One belonged to a woman who moved in 2019. At door fourteen, a m...

How to Buy A Voter List for the State of Michigan

In the Great Lakes State of Michigan, election seem to happen all the time. Michigan is a unique state of industry and natural splendor, international border with Canada and by far having the greatest quantity of fresh water than any other state. Did you know that there is a small section of Michigan that has been isolated since the Great Toledo War of 1836? It's on a small peninsula just north...

How to Buy Voter List Data for the State of Texas

Did you know that until recently, it was illegal to milk someone else's cow in Texas? Fortunately, that law was removed by law in 1973, so you can now feel free to milk your neighbors cows without worrying about getting "busted". One can only wonder how that campaign comittee to repeal that law succeded. And one might wonder, if they faced resistance from an alternate position on this issue. Mo...

How to Buy Voter Data List for the State of Florida

In the “Sunshine State of Florida”, like all states, there is always a steady stream of election cycles for the multitude of elected positions and election issues. As soon as one cycle has ended, it seems the next campaigns begin. It should be no surprise with 21.6 million residents living in 67 counties, 27 congressional districts, countless municipal office elections, judgeships, school boards,...

Donald J. Trump for President -vs- Joe Biden for President: A Technical Comparison of Campaign Use of Internet and Social Media SEO Practices

It is time again in late 2020 for The United States of America to select their president. The two major parties have nominated candidates and now they will work to rally support. States will conduct simultaneous elections after months of local and national campaign efforts. This year, 2020, President Trump and former Vice President Biden are fully engaged as of this writing (September 1 st , 2020)...
By WalkLists Team | Sep 05, 2020
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