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Elections are happening all the time with new candidates running for offices somewhere. In the State of California there are 39.7M residents, 58 counties with many elected government positions required by law to be filled by way of a formal election. Also, there are 53 congressional positions and 2 senate seats that are subject to their length of terms, not to mention ballot proposals. With thous...

Voter data is one of the crucial items you will need for any political campaign. After the 2016 Presidential elections, one political advisor stated that the data was dead.While he might have been mistaken, incorrect data is equal to dead data and you should not use it for your campaign, as it will influence the race. Ordinarily, the best voter data is up-to-date. On many occasions, however, campa...

A first-time campaign manager calls a friend on Saturday morning. The candidate announced two weeks ago. The kickoff fundraiser is Thursday. Volunteers are on the list. The friend asks the question that wakes the campaign manager up: where are you getting the voter file? There is a long silence. The campaign manager has not thought about the voter file. The campaign manager has been thinking about...

On the night of the primary, in a precinct in a Detroit suburb, a man stays up until 1:42 am refreshing the county clerk's website. There are forty-eight ballots cast in his precinct's delegate race. He has fifty-one votes. He won by three. He goes to the state convention. The candidate who lost goes home. Precinct delegate elections are the smallest elections in American politics that anybody pay...