What matters to people in your community? How do they feel about an issue or a recent event? Conduct a survey and ask them! It’s hard when you’re tight on resources. Chatbots are software programs that serve as your virtual assistant. They greet respondents, ask them questions as text messages and save their responses. See …
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Political pollsters predicted a red wave (NYT). How did so many pollsters get it so wrong? “Polls have a number of limiting factors. Pollsters can’t know for certain if the people who answer the poll are representative of the population that will actually vote. Most pollsters end up making adjustments to match the expected composition …
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Make smarter decisions with better information. How can surveys be customized to local issues and conducted quickly? On a tiny budget with little technical expertise? Textbots let even grassroots groups conduct targeted surveys and build lists of potential supporters. This blog explains how Sherman Hardy, candidate for County Executive in Prince George County, Maryland uses …
Canvass smarter to register more voters and increase voter turnout to counter Republican voter suppression. How can organizers: Canvass people from the voter file or any other contact list? Customize the survey questions for canvassers to ask? Handle deep canvassing where volunteers contact the same person several times? Provide volunteers with canvassing scripts they can …
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How would they like to vote? By mail? Dropbox? In person? Conduct a survey to find out.
