Voters across the U.S. are receiving their early ballots, and we know this is super critical data you need to organize in the final weeks before the election. Want to know who requested an absentee ballot in your area? Or which voters already cast their ballot? We’re working to make that data available to everyone using NationBuilder – but collecting the data from every county and state quickly enough to be useful is a massive undertaking.
We need your help. (how many times have you seen that in an email before!)
Seriously though, our thought is this: if every campaign that could use early voter data just had a volunteer go pick it up at their local county office, we could solve the problem in no time. So, if this is something you can commit to, please fill out this form. Our team can tell you where to go, and we'll import the data into your nation for free, right away. We’ll also update your nation with tags to identify everyone who has already voted, so you can target your GOTV efforts.
It's really easy – most of the time you just have to contact a local office and they will either email it to you, or ask you to pick it up. Frequently there is a fee, but it is generally nominal. Then send the data to us.
Sign up to collect early voter data here: http://signup-nbec.nationbuilder.com/
We currently have (and are continually updating) early voter data for the following states: Alaska, California, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Utah.
And we should have data shortly from these states: Arkansas, DC, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Oregon, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
If you're in any of those states, just reply to this email. Your organizer will share the tags with you and, like magic, they will appear in your nation. This is part of an exciting new feature that allows you to share tags between nations...we'll tell you more about that later! And if your state isn't listed, please fill out this form and contribute it.
The NationBuilder data blog has daily updates, so keep up to date there.
P.S. In your GOTV efforts, don't forget about all the folks you can only reach online. To help, we created a Digital GOTV HOWTO. It only takes 30 minutes to get up and running.