Questions for Grassroots Central developer welcome

[RobS]

Whoa, hold on a second, SharpSteve! I'm from Michigan, and I hope you know that Michigan's county conventions are February 7th! There is NOTHING more important in Michigan right now than getting a list of precinct delegates from your county clerk's office and writing them and doing whatever you can to get them to support Ron Paul! ALL of the other campaigns are assuming Michigan is a done deal for Romney so NONE of them are paying any attention, but the reality is, regardless of the primary, the Michigan Republican Party can set whatever rules it wants!

You might recall that the national GOP instituted a rule cutting Michigan's national delegates in half, and you might know that all of the campaigns have said that their delegates will vote at the national convention to seat all of Michigan's delegates. That's the thing! REGARDLESS of current party rules, the delegates at the county convention can vote to change county convention rules and state delegates can vote to change state convention rules and national delegates can change national convention rules! The primaries and caucuses are NOTHING MORE THAN AN INDICATION OF WHAT REPUBLICAN VOTERS WANT. If all the precinct delegates at the county convention vote to send Ron Paul delegates to the state convention, and state convention delegates vote at the state convention to change the rules such that national delegates are not bound to vote for their district's primary winner, then the Primary is essentially nullified.

Sound crazy? Remember, the Republican Party is a private organization, it is not an element of government--it can do whatever it wants. The state party has authority to set state party rules. Some states bind their delegates for 2 rounds of voting at the national convention, other states, none!

So, don't worry about November, worry about February 7! And the state convention, which is the 15th and 16th! We can still win delegates IF and ONLY IF we try.

Iowa is not over, New Hampshire is not over, Michigan is not over, South Carolina is not over... and you can bet if Ron Paul won any of those states, the other candidates would be setting up the conventions for their favor so there is NO REASON why we should not, especially since the other campaigns are basically ignoring these events! If you haven't already, REGISTER REPUBLICAN TODAY and PLAN TO GO TO YOUR COUNTY CONVENTION!!!

How about sending out an email to all the Michigan PL's then? I am sure a lot of them have no idea about this.

I would love to see a way for people from other states/areas to be able to get merged into anothers precinct and do phone calls for them. This would be a great way to harness those people who do not like getting out there and canvassing, or whose primary has already passed. They would of course have to be able to update info on the site so that people don't get called more than once.

 

[RobS]

bump

 

[nc4rp]

first of all, i would put the following text in Bold or increase the font:

Thank you for becoming a Ron Paul Precinct Leader! As precinct leader, your goal is to win your precinct for Dr. Paul.

It's all about turn out, turn out, turn out!

Victory is accomplished through a sequence of three simple (but quite long and involved) steps. Ready?

but i guess thats just symantecs. great work!

 

[jblosser]

The RNC party index is one simple number, versus voter history which is like 10 numbers for 10 elections, very difficult to format for intelligible display and it only indicates that they voted, not who they voted for.

I have multiple samples I can give you that work fine for us.

Here's one row from the format I use in my own precinct; it's using numeric codes which isn't ideal, but it's only because we haven't done the work to convert these to alphas yet.

Age,LastName,FirstName,Area,Phone,Address,Dir,Street,Suff,Apt,G06,P06,G04,P04,G02,P02,G00,P00,Inf,L,T,G,W,GOP,$
49,SMITH,JOHN,555,1234567,1234,,MAIN,ST,,V,,,ED,V,,V,R,40,32,16,15,33,31,20

 

[ASayre]

(clearing)

 

[cjhowe]

The RNC party index is one simple number, versus voter history which is like 10 numbers for 10 elections, very difficult to format for intelligible display and it only indicates that they voted, not who they voted for.

output it to csv or excel like you were doing before. Let those walking determine what is important. Let those walking format their data. Let the local areas create templates for what's important in their areas and have their walker copy and paste the info into the template.

States with closed primaries will want to avoid wasting their time with Democrats. States with crazy convention rules may have certain strategies that would be more beneficial. There's no possible way that you get a 44 state strategy worked out in so little time. Provide the data, let the local areas fit it to their needs. (county and county specific voter identification number might be beneficial for those who might be tracking local balloting initiatives)