Phonebanking Platform for Iowa

[tobefree]

Hey all,
I was planning an independent grassroots project to help out Ron Paul in NH and Iowa and after reading these threads RonPaulNation and others are setting up exactly the same thing I was thinking about so I'm just going to support and promote that project. (ie. grassroots moneybomb/ bus plan etc.) I'm 100% on board and believe winning the Ames Straw Poll is critical. What I can help provide is a cost-effective and cutting edge phone-banking platform used in the early Peter Schiff campaign (not Callfire which is too expensive) and John Dennis campaign that will enable people nationwide to make calls. I contacted the organizer of Call4Paul and he has lists of identified Ron Paul supporters. I'm planning on getting updated voter data for Iowa. The software company gave me a demo of advanced canvassing features that integrated Google maps so I'm hoping we can use this for grassroots canvassing efforts as well. Anyways this is a third-party software that is created specifically to mobilize people and I like this platform a lot. I'm planning to raise the funds for this platform and getting it up ASAP so people nationwide can start calling and identifying Ron Paul supporters in Iowa. Let me know your thoughts and message me if you have any questions. Thanks.

 

[trey4sports]

Sounds great, im ready to make some serious phone calls

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

Goof luck getting numbers from the PEC

 

[ronpaulhawaii]

FYI- I already have the system used for Call4Kokesh. It is simple and free. I was waiting till the page was up and running to announce it here. Should be in a week or so. My plan is to buy the entire voter lists from each state we consider necessary (maybe even all) Iowa will cost about $2k for an updating list... I think the platform that is mentioned here looks interesting, but we should look at the cost benefit ratio...

 

[FriedChicken]

Wow this would be an awesome tool. I'm on board with making phone calls!

 

[Nate-ForLiberty]

FYI- I already have the system used for Call4Kokesh. It is simple and free. I was waiting till the page was up and running to announce it here. Should be in a week or so. My plan is to buy the entire voter lists from each state we consider necessary (maybe even all) Iowa will cost about $2k for an updating list... I think the platform that is mentioned here looks interesting, but we should look at the cost benefit ratio...

omg! can't wait!

*This is a Chip-In I can believe in

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

FYI- I already have the system used for Call4Kokesh. It is simple and free. I was waiting till the page was up and running to announce it here. Should be in a week or so. My plan is to buy the entire voter lists from each state we consider necessary (maybe even all) Iowa will cost about $2k for an updating list... I think the platform that is mentioned here looks interesting, but we should look at the cost benefit ratio...

Some states are dirt cheap. Others charge something like 15-25 cents a name. Expect more of the uber-expensive ones with the budget crunch everywhere.

Also, many have no phone numbers.

 

[ronpaulhawaii]

omg! can't wait!

*This is a Chip-In I can believe in

- Anyone interested in being part of the team, just let me know.

Some states are dirt cheap. Others charge something like 15-25 cents a name. Expect more of the uber-expensive ones with the budget crunch everywhere.

Also, many have no phone numbers.

Yes, The lists we bought for other campaigns do not have all the phone numbers, but it is a starting place and we will be able to use the list for many other purposes like Direct Mail. We should be able to fill in some of the missing numbers via internet sleuthing, as well...

Onward!

 

[trey4sports]

- Anyone interested in being part of the team, just let me know.



Yes, The lists we bought for other campaigns do not have all the phone numbers, but it is a starting place and we will be able to use the list for many other purposes like Direct Mail. We should be able to fill in some of the missing numbers via internet sleuthing, as well...

Onward!

I'm very interested in this. I'm willing to make calls and chip-in once the plan is finalized

 

[ronpaulhawaii]

The software tobefree is talking about is good, and I can see little downside to having more than one platform... One thing we will need to be careful of is duplicating calls and we'll have to coordinate our teams. IOW we could use one system for simple polling, and the other for direct candidate support; we could split up the workload; etc...

I suppose I should have posted about this earlier, but I've been building teams for this for a while already...

 

[thehighwaymanq]

I would be interested in calling!

 

[Eric21ND]

Tell me more about those updated voter lists? Where do you buy them? What about people that only own cell phones?

 

[ronpaulhawaii]

Tell me more about those updated voter lists? Where do you buy them? What about people that only own cell phones?

We gotten them from the Sec of State and Boards of Elections. You get them from your state govt regardless. The GOP has voter vault and the DNC has whatever they call theirs. We could use our own, for years to come... The partisan lists are clunky and usually outdated, but more detailed from years of inputting walk data and tracking voter frequency...

 

[The Dark Knight]

I volunteered for a campaign in Washington state last fall and we got most of our lists from the state republican party.

 

[tobefree]

The software tobefree is talking about is good, and I can see little downside to having more than one platform... One thing we will need to be careful of is duplicating calls and we'll have to coordinate our teams. IOW we could use one system for simple polling, and the other for direct candidate support; we could split up the workload; etc...

I suppose I should have posted about this earlier, but I've been building teams for this for a while already...

I agree 100%. We can just leave it up to the free market to see what platform people are comfortable using, but we should coordinate lists and share costs.

I prefer starting from a clean voter list and if someone can do some data integration with partisan lists that's all the better. The entire Republican list is: 609,365. RachelFaith mentioned something about polling Independents too so I'm wondering if they can easily switch registrations. There are a total of 696,696 Independents. If we get both Reps and Independents that's 1,306,061 names. I was thinking of one simple survey robo call for voter ID and to clean the list and then doing manual surveying and identification. The cost I come up with from the State Elections office is roughly around $653. (Much cheaper than NH which I was surprised to find costs $8,300 for the statewide list.) The turnout for the last caucus was 120,000 so a highly targeted likely Republican voter list is probably around the same number. Not bad at all. 60,000 can get be a majority at the Feb Caucus Straw Poll, and I figure a target of around 7,500 can be a majority for the August Ames Straw poll.

BTW I am in contact with the organizer of the Call4Paul program and he mentioned he can give me a list.

 

[IDefendThePlatform]

Sounds great. I'm in for phone calling and a chip in.

 

[tobefree]

Also if anyone knows how to set up a robocall that would be great. I think it is usually around 1 cent per call if you use a third party, but I know people that can set up a robocalling program for a lot cheaper by setting it up themselves. I know someone who said they can do this so I'll try to reconnect with that person.

 

[ronpaulhawaii]

We do robocalls here in NYC, a member here sets them up (I got a call from myself for the Webster Hall event was weird...). I'll ask him and see what it will take to expand the network...

I looked at Iowa and it looked like the latest list was ~$600 and the updating one (with the absentee list) is ~$2k - I think the extra cost is worth it... I hadn't looked at NH yet -

 

[tobefree]

We do robocalls here in NYC, a member here sets them up (I got a call from myself for the Webster Hall event was weird...). I'll ask him and see what it will take to expand the network...

I looked at Iowa and it looked like the latest list was ~$600 and the updating one (with the absentee list) is ~$2k - I think the extra cost is worth it... I hadn't looked at NH yet -

not sure we get that much for the extra $1400. My wild guess would be that there will be a less than 1% increase/change from the list we get now compared to the one right before the election. I'm trying to remember the % change here locally, but it was not that much. It would be good to get estimates of changes per update.

And yeah .. NH shocked me too.. but the way the guy at the Dept of Elections explained it it made sense.. there are pretty much 250 townships and they each charge an admin fee of about $30. You can go through the hassle of visiting each township, but it's not worth the $4-500 savings.

That sounds great you have contacts for the robocall!

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

We gotten them from the Sec of State and Boards of Elections. You get them from your state govt regardless. The GOP has voter vault and the DNC has whatever they call theirs. We could use our own, for years to come... The partisan lists are clunky and usually outdated, but more detailed from years of inputting walk data and tracking voter frequency...

Many of us used Advokit last time and the person that was doing training on using it would probably be willing to do it again.

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