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Conservatives with a new media bent shuddered during the last presidential election when the Obama campaign came out with the online activist/campaign system known as 'Obama for America' (OFA). Far more than a web site with a donate button, it was a comprehensive activist and campaign management system that was largely responsible for getting Obama elected, then in its new guise after election day as 'Organizing for America' (OFA) for getting Obamacare passed.
As elements of the system were built over the years from 2001 to 2007, it was known by various names: Voter Activation Network (VAN), Catalist, Votebuilder, and finally, OFA.
An important feature of this system is that it allowed and allows groups like the SEIU and ACORN to use the same-but-separate tools together alongside the Democratic Party and activate their respective networks toward the same goals. rVotes has the same functionality. This is not 'sharing' the Democrats' system as VoterVault was, separate facility, separate corporation, separate servers, separate motivation, but substantially the same software.
Yes, I'm saying that the awesome system that drove multiple cyberspace (and realworld) victories for Obama is now available to Republicans and conservatives.
It's called rVotes (rvotes.com) and it's OFA for Republicans. The system is so massive, it will literally take you a week to understand everything that it does. It pretty much does everything.
But don't assume that you will understand what the system does by reading this article and all the articles I link to here.
You won't.
The best way to learn about the system for now is to look at past investigative reporting that was done on the OFA/Votebuilder system as the Democrats used it for the Obama and Obamacare victories. Take the time to carefully study the material at each of the three links below (each link below opens new tabs or windows, and screen shots are plentiful).
Hot Air: An Inside Look at Obama’s Organizing for America Part I « The Greenroom
by Carol Greenberg (Carol is a friend of mine, and a brilliant investigative reporter)
Hot Air: An Inside Look at Organizing for America Part II: ACORN for America? « The Greenroom
by Anita Moncrief (the original ACORN whistleblower)
...and training videos local Democrats have developed over the
years:
Democratic
Party of Virginia Votebuilder Training Videos
This is the system that is now available to Republicans. The system is expensive now for early adopters. In two years, it'll be much less expensive but many potential conservative victories will have been missed in that period without using the system. So the question becomes do you want to have a special fundraising evolution to raise the funds required now and claim the ensuing victories, or do you want to forgo the immediate victories in favor of a lower investment in two years?
You know my answer: go out raise the funds right now.
Remember: this tool is proven through four years of continuous use by the Democrats. They elected Obama with this tool, and they passed Obamacare with it. This tool networked organizations like the Democrat Party, ACORN, SEIU and many other organizations to accomplish together what none could separately.
rVotes is:
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Complete, web based Campaign Managment
- Voter Contact Systems
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Fundraising
- Voter Registration Drive
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Early /Abentee Vote by Mail
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Real-time, GOTV
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iPhone, BlackBerry and Android compatible
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Event Management
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Volunteer Management
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Web Based, Virtual Phone Banking
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Blast Email / Phone
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Fully Coordinated and Cooperative Campaigning
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Bar-Coded, Web enabled walking and calling lists
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Precision Data
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Palm Pilot, iPhone & SmartPhone Canvassing / GOTV
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Unified Database
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Data Warehousing
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Open Data Architecture
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"Macronano" Targeting™
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Facebook friendly
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Data Import and Export
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Case Management
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Unified database design
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Constituency Management
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Fun and Empowering!
- and oh, so much more ...
Comment
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Comment by Ron Robinson on May 31, 2011 at 2:29pm
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Yes - indeed there is - it is first come, first served (no reservations)
Tuesday, May 31 7:00 PM EST
Please join my meeting.
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/425758080
2. Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended. Or, call in using your telephone.
Dial +1 (314) 627-1500
Access Code: 425-758-080
Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting
Meeting ID: 425-758-080
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Comment by Lois Kaneshiki on May 31, 2011 at 1:47pm -
Is there a call tonight? I don't have the info.
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Comment by Jennifer Peterson on May 23, 2011 at 3:20pm -
You got it... will be on call tonight. Can't wait to learn more about this!!
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Maybe stand by a couple of days if you can Jennifer? We are coordinating a launch in our community with a couple of other communities.
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Comment by Jennifer Peterson on May 23, 2011 at 2:52pm
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Nice! I am SPREADING THE WORD!! Already emailed and facebooked to my friends, and will continue. I am behind you 100%, but am completely new to this. I will be on the phone call and hope to learn more. Please keep in touch with me to show me how I can personally help!!
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Yes, we normally archive the calls.
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Comment by Russ Alinda Howell on May 23, 2011 at 6:31am
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Ron, I am willing to take this on, but will be travelling from NM to IA for the next two days. (Leaving in about 2 hrs.) Is there a chance this could be archived so I can follow up on what took place? I've been to rvotes.com and will continue to moniter.
We don't use voter vault because of the time lag from the County to the State, but get updates directly from the County Clerk. This has to be where the errors are occurring. The volunteers in town are contacting voters personally, but those of us in the rural areas have to make initial contact by phone or computer. Most everyone in NM who lives in the country is fenced and gated. (BLM open grazing). Causes us problems that we need to overcome. We'll figure it out, but meanwhile we need to get the info that is being gathered into a reliable database.
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There is a conference call tomorrow (Monday) night at 7pm PT, 10pm ET 712.432.3100 code 562771 that I think you were emailed about. Also the demo Tuesday night at 4pm PT, 7pm ET limited to 15 people. Email me at ron@procinct.net if you want one of those seats. Did you get the email on that? You can also go to their web site at rvotes.com to learn more. Let me know if there is another learning channel or method that would work better for you.
The inaccuracies you speak of are the product of your local county clerk or Secretary of State, and this has always been an issue. From VoterVault and PDI all through all the others, they can only mount the data that the clerk or SOS supplies them with. The solution is a two-pronged approach:
1. Insist on better data from the clerk and SOS - but they can only record what voter gives at registration time. At voter registration time, the voter probably has an understandable vested privacy interest in giving their landline instead of their cell, and not giving their email at all. That's their right.
2. The best solution: improve the data ourselves over the years - we are beginning to approach better solutions on this, but licensing has always been a problem that is only now getting straightened out. If I am renting PDI's service and my workers have been typing in better phone numbers and email addresses for two years, who owns the improvements I've been making for two years on the data? Right now, the data services own the improved data for the most part, so if I leave PDI, I cannot take my data improvements with me.
Some new services are just starting to appear that understand this problem and are willing to license their service and the SOS data such that the client (us) can take our data improvements with us when we leave for another service.
Any way you cut it, it's up to you and your org to improve the data you start out with by getting to know the voters so they trust you with their cell phone and email address, then recording that info carefully and accurately, and make sure you are keeping all your data on servers under a contract that allows you to take your data improvements elsewhere when you leave for another data service provider.
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Comment by Russ Alinda Howell on May 22, 2011 at 4:08pm
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I would very much like to learn more about this. In doing precinct work I find there are many inaccuracies in the records we receive. Also people are doing away with land lines. I'm hoping this will make contacting and organizing easier.
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