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Jun Dam, principal director of Grassroots for Liberty SuperPAC, has come up with a brilliant strategy for winning Washington state's caucus for Ron Paul on March 3. The strategy is the same voter identification and GOTV phonebanking used with success elsewhere, but with a new twist that we expect to boost turnout among the more casual supporters of Ron Paul. The novel twist is simply this: The SuperPAC will collect donations to be used as prize money for those who are the first to correctly report vote tallies from caucus precincts won by Ron Paul.
Participation in the contest will require invitations, which will be delivered by rp2012.org phonebankers to Ron Paul supporters in Washington that I identify through robocalls. I will be using the same unconventional techniques that I used for identifying thousands of Ron Paul-leaning Iowans before the Ames 2011 straw poll, most of whom were not yet on the Ron Paul campaign's radars. We expect the same techniques to produce similar, if not better results in identifying Ron Paul supporters in Washington.
The exact details of the contest are still being worked out, but here are the rules that are taking shape:
1. Invitations will be given with a secret phone number for contestants to text precinct caucus results to.
2. Winners will be those who are the first to send text messages with correct precinct names and vote tallies (for all candidates) in which Ron Paul is the winner. If precincts are aggregated, aggregated vote tallies will be accepted as well.
3. Only text messages from phone numbers on the invitation list will be considered.
4. Contestants are welcome to invite as many other contestants as they wish (whether they're eligible to vote in Washington or not) by texting their phone numbers to the "secret phone number" mentioned above from a phone number already on the invitation list.
5. The exact sizes and number of cash prizes have yet to be determined, but both will increase as donations are received. $1,000 for first prize, awarded to the first contestant (as determined by Google Voice time stamp) who reports a correct vote tally from a precinct caucus, seems like a reasonable place to start.
The incentives created by the contest are obvious:
1. Attend a Washington precinct caucus (or be a very good psychic). If you're eligible to vote, then vote.
2. Get as many other Ron Paul supporters to attend and vote as well.
3. See to it that voting and vote counting are as transparent as possible, which may require some assertiveness and numbers (which brings us back to 2).
First priority for the SuperPAC is raising money for anonymous robocall surveys to identify Ron Paul supporters in the state of Washington (see post #31 in this thread for more details). Donations can be made at http://rp2012.org/ . Our goal is to raise $5,000 before the weekend, so that robocalls can be sent across the state on Saturday, and follow-up phone calls can be made all-day Sunday.
Participation in the contest will require invitations, which will be delivered by rp2012.org phonebankers to Ron Paul supporters in Washington that I identify through robocalls. I will be using the same unconventional techniques that I used for identifying thousands of Ron Paul-leaning Iowans before the Ames 2011 straw poll, most of whom were not yet on the Ron Paul campaign's radars. We expect the same techniques to produce similar, if not better results in identifying Ron Paul supporters in Washington.
The exact details of the contest are still being worked out, but here are the rules that are taking shape:
1. Invitations will be given with a secret phone number for contestants to text precinct caucus results to.
2. Winners will be those who are the first to send text messages with correct precinct names and vote tallies (for all candidates) in which Ron Paul is the winner. If precincts are aggregated, aggregated vote tallies will be accepted as well.
3. Only text messages from phone numbers on the invitation list will be considered.
4. Contestants are welcome to invite as many other contestants as they wish (whether they're eligible to vote in Washington or not) by texting their phone numbers to the "secret phone number" mentioned above from a phone number already on the invitation list.
5. The exact sizes and number of cash prizes have yet to be determined, but both will increase as donations are received. $1,000 for first prize, awarded to the first contestant (as determined by Google Voice time stamp) who reports a correct vote tally from a precinct caucus, seems like a reasonable place to start.
The incentives created by the contest are obvious:
1. Attend a Washington precinct caucus (or be a very good psychic). If you're eligible to vote, then vote.
2. Get as many other Ron Paul supporters to attend and vote as well.
3. See to it that voting and vote counting are as transparent as possible, which may require some assertiveness and numbers (which brings us back to 2).
First priority for the SuperPAC is raising money for anonymous robocall surveys to identify Ron Paul supporters in the state of Washington (see post #31 in this thread for more details). Donations can be made at http://rp2012.org/ . Our goal is to raise $5,000 before the weekend, so that robocalls can be sent across the state on Saturday, and follow-up phone calls can be made all-day Sunday.
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