Article on Privacy to think about...

In the 1998 and 2000 U.S. elections, the Internet played an important role as a source of information for citizens and as a campaign tool for office seekers. The rise of Internet campaigning has brought about numerous benefits including increased access to political information, increased depth of content, and the ability to engage in online interactive political dialogue. Unfortunately, there is a potential dark side to all of this interaction. Just as the rise of electronic commerce has created tremendous concerns about online privacy, so too has the rise of e-campaigning. Through the use of cookies, online donation forms, and political mailing lists, Internet-based campaigns can now gather tremendous amounts of information about which candidates voters prefer and where they choose to surf. The creation and sale of such detailed voter profiles raises serious questions about the future of political privacy and the democratic electoral process itself. This paper will explore the importance of political privacy, its protection through our rights to associational privacy and anonymous speech, and the many ways that the political preferences of citizens are compromised online by campaign Web sites, database and e-mail marketers, and excessive U.S. Federal Election Commission disclosure rules. The potential negative effects of a monitored electorate on the democratic process are also examined.

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_2/hunter/

great resource

This is for non-profits and it seems like good prices.

They also have the email and zip code sign up which is extremely important.

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/

Did Dean's website, they do Chris Bell's site

Very well done.

http://www.echoditto.com/services#organizing

Complete campaigns

http://www.completecampaigns.com/votermanager.asp

Voter contact is democracy at its most basic. To win elections, candidates need to make connections with voters at that most fundamental level with volunteers knocking on doors, handing out literature and winning the battle on the ground for hearts, minds and yard signs.

Organizing a good field operation can produce a win for your candidate, but it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information necessary to get the job done.

CompleteCampaigns.com’s VoterManager software was designed to help campaigns process that mountain of data and turn it into something useful, allowing them to target their messages more effectively and easily track who they’ve talked to and when.

And since VoterManager is a web-based system, campaigns can also use it to coordinate staff members and volunteers based in of different locations. Some campaigns set up their volunteers to use VoterManager to print out their own walk sheets, then enter their own results at the end of the day. They can do all of this without needing to go to the campaign headquarters.

Voter Solutions

http://www.votersolutions.com/fr_faq.htm

$25,000 to $30,000 for State wide system

http://www.geovoter.com/index.html

Designed to meet the needs of State Republican parties and national conservative non-profit organizations, GeoVoter^® is the geography-based campaign communication-targeting system built to help you garner the support of voters – especially those all-important “undecideds” – as well as donors and volunteers.

GeoVoter was developed in the early 1990s by a political activist who was frustrated by clumsy, hit-or-miss information and management techniques. Since then, we’ve enhanced it continuously, based on user input. As a result, for the last decade it has been proving its accuracy and success in statewide campaign after statewide campaign, election after election.

Today, GeoVoter provides a complete, turnkey solution for successful voter-database management and targeting – a solution that arms our clients with as much capability as they need:

>	Complete computer hardware
>	GeoVoter software & software licenses
>	Installed voter files, either client-provided or provided by us for an additional fee
>	List merge and installation
>	Voter demographic and financial data
>	2000 Census Statistical data
>	2000 Census Map data
>	Current political boundaries
>	Integrated functions for GeoVoter FasTrack™ satellite systems
>	Building and testing of your systems prior to delivery
>	Installation
>	Training
>	Email support

Campaign Advantage

http://www.campaignadvantage.com/

Aristotle, voter information.

http://www.voterlistsonline.com/version2/site/page.asp?page_id=home

http://www.aristotle.com/page.asp?page_id=home

"Then, specify the voters you want to include in your Voter List. You may select voters by state, election district, age, gender, income, vote history...or dozens of other criteria. There is no charge for any search. You can even view, also for free, a color map of the Voter List creation results.

Finally, when you've narrowed the selected voters to the voter list you want, you can purchase and download the voter list using any major credit card through our secure server."

Scoop information, distributed information

http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/

http://altercom.com/scoophosting.html

Texas 2004 results for TX District 21

http://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist.exe

2004 General Election

11/2/2004

U. S. Representative District 21

...	Lamar	Rhett R.	Jason	...	...	...
...	Smith	Smith	Pratt	Total	Total	...
County	REP	DEM	LIB	Votes	Voters	TurnOut
ALL COUNTIES	209,774	121,129	10,216	341,119	1,646,560	20.71%
BEXAR	82,494	33,798	2,327	118,619	908,466	13.05%
BLANCO	3,189	1,097	134	4,420	6,548	67.50%
COMAL	29,226	6,309	687	36,222	65,739	55.09%
HAYS	16,889	8,580	881	26,350	80,858	32.58%
TRAVIS	77,976	71,345	6,187	155,508	584,949	26.58%

Data at the Precinct Level

http://www.americandata.com/voteproducts.html

Precinct Lists

The precinct walk and phone lists produced by American Data Management are still one of the most effective campaign tools to make personal contact with voters likely to vote in the election. The campaign can order the voter file information electronically and produce their own precinct lists or can have ADM laser print the walking lists and ship them overnight.

The precinct walk lists and prepared in numerical precinct order, with streets alphabetically sorted within each precinct, with even and odd addresses separated within each street. This helps campaign volunteers when they prefer to walk one side of the street at a time. The voter records are grouped together by household, with double spacing between households.

Every voter list produced by American Data Management is customized for the campaign and will include only the targeted voters the campaign needs to contact door-to-door. Each voter record on the precinct list will include information about that particular voter including which elections they voted in, if they voted absentee in that election, their age, party type, and any other coding which may be available from the campaign or elections officials.

Upon request, ADM's voter lists can include bar codes for the rapid capture of results information. For example, voters requesting lawn signs and indicating support should be added to the voter database for follow-up and get-out-the-vote operations.

A sample page from a Walk Phone list is here. This list is usable for both precinct walking and phone banking.
A sample page from a Walk Phone list with barcodes is here.
Note that custom formats are available, contact us with your specifications.

166 million registered voters, targeted

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Plus Three Launches Upgrade Of Fund-Raising Software

By Larry Greenemeier, June 28, 2004

One of the key companies behind the Democratic National Committee's IT infrastructure--more commonly referred to as Demzilla--on Monday launched the latest version of its open-source fund-raising software. Version 3.1 of Plus Three LP's Arcos software lets fund-raising organizations and political campaigns treat their constituents more like consumers, thanks to business-intelligence features designed to enable more direct marketing.

The Democratic National Committee, Plus Three's largest customer, is using Arcos technology to store and track campaign donors much like customer-relationship-management software does for large companies. The committee has on file about 166 million registered voters that it can use to target people who might be undecided or leaning away from the party, says David Brunton, Plus Three's VP of sales and marketing.

Missouri's Democratic Party is using Plus Three's technology to make the most of the data it gathers from volunteers collecting information door-to-door. State branches of the party are the ones closest to the voters, says Jim Kottmeyer, executive director of the Missouri Democratic Party. "The plan is to send batch downloads to the national database," he says. In return, Missouri will receive reports that analyze the voter data it contributes to the national campaign effort.

"There are 2.4 million voters in the state of Missouri. We have to know which ones to talk to," Kottmeyer says. "Politics is all driven by voter-specific information these days."

The Republican National Committee also has a voter data repository, called Voter Vault, although a party spokeswoman declined to give specifics regarding its technology.