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Strategy and planning
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by JonPincus 15 years, 5 months ago
A work in progress ... please help fill in the blanks and evolve it!
Goal
- provide data from grassroots monitoring of election information, useful to election protection workers, voters, media, and others
Priorities
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High-level strategy
- define simple protocol for reporting over Twitter
- develop visualizations applications for several scenarios (using a "Jam Session" to catalyze)
- partner with other election protection groups, e.g. 1866-OUR-VOTE, League of Younger Voters, Rock the Vote, Voter Suppression Wiki, etc., to get broad participation in creating the project -- as well as (hopefully) plenty of participants
- use snazzy technology, web-2.0-buzzword-enabled approach, and "grassroots activists helping save democracy" narrative to catch media attention
- combine volunteer Sweepers and "SuperTweeters" with automated analysis and visualization technologies
Rough timeline
- Oct 24: Jam Session
- ???: Press release, coordinated PR with partners
- Oct ???: Beta test/Rehearsal
- Nov 3, evening: Final preparations
- Nov 4: showtime
Note: we also want to capture as much information as possible about early voting between now and Nov. 4.
Media plan
General strategy:
- Blogger conference call: At some point we should hold a conference call with interested bloggers to walk them through the project. The Election Protection Coalition has offered to do some outreach and logisitics for it.
- Press release: There should probably be a standard press release that goes out through the usual channels.
Outreach:
- Potential targets: tech press (Wired, tech bloggers), political press (Washington Post, New York Times, political bloggers on right and left)
- Potential hooks:
- The progressive angle: how activists, programmers, established organizations, and others have worked together in a decentralized way to make this happen, and quickly
- The tech angle: modern mobile activism using tools that weren't available until recently; the wonders and challenges of open format and decentralization?
- Other, more specific hooks: Credo making text messaging free for election day?
- Coordinate with partners also doing PR and highlight the overall "working together for election protection" narrative
Assumptions
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Back of the envelope numeric calculations
- # of voters: 122,000,000 in 2004, at least 75,000,000 on election day.
- if we get 1% involved, that's at least 750,000 messages
- # polling places in the US: ? ideally we'd have messages hourly from each one (to get an idea of wait times), so multiple this by 8 for the number of messages; and this is also the number of people we need to get involved
- # incidents reported to 866-OUR-VOTE in 2004: 42,841 (including primaries, I think). Conclusion: most incidents go unreported. what percentage of these need additional investigation?
- # provisional ballots: 2,000,000 ? (based on Wikipedia's "at least 1.9 million" in 2004). if we're shooting for 10% coverage of problems, that'd be 200,000 messages.
- #twitter users: 1,600,000 M, estimates that 20-30% are active, so we're drawing from a pool of 300-500,000.
- estimate needed to get decent coverage at the precinct level?
- estimate needed to get decent coverage at the county level?
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