In terms of measurement, I believe all of the relational programs start by matching your friends to the voter file.
Our free SwipeBlue app does this automatically during install - we're matching around 50% of each person's contacts. Other relational programs do this manually.
This matching lets us help users text friends who live in Presidential battleground states, Senate battlegrounds, House battlegrounds, and abortion referenda.
This matching also tells us both who users are texting, and whether those text recipients vote.
Hopefully after the election we will have the data we need to quantify the effectiveness of relational organizing.
But in the meantime we can all use support to enlist more relational organizers - so thanks David for your generous appeal!
In terms of measurement, I believe all of the relational programs start by matching your friends to the voter file.
Our free SwipeBlue app does this automatically during install - we're matching around 50% of each person's contacts. Other relational programs do this manually.
This matching lets us help users text friends who live in Presidential battleground states, Senate battlegrounds, House battlegrounds, and abortion referenda.
This matching also tells us both who users are texting, and whether those text recipients vote.
Hopefully after the election we will have the data we need to quantify the effectiveness of relational organizing.
But in the meantime we can all use support to enlist more relational organizers - so thanks David for your generous appeal!