We're new Nationbuilders, a grassroots network with about 400 volunteers. We signed on to use NB's VAN to help several Latinas run for school boards in rural CA, but we also do other campaigns. Can we set up multiple election campaign pages using our single account? Or a single page for several candidates? Can we also keep a main page showing other campaigns? Also, can we select for Hispanic voters from voter file? Also, is the voter file updated in the final days of the election (stripping out vbm's who have already voted)? And/or can we upload our own updated local voter files? If we do the latter, will your tools still select for Hispanic voters?
Features like vote pledge and candidate tracking through the dashboard metrics are designed for single-campaign/candidate. Our subnations feature is designed to support more complex organizations that want each candidate to have a full nation and aggregate supporter ID work through a primary nation. I would recommend this option if you want to keep long-term supporter infrastructure in place while candidates only have their sites/nations for short duration.
Learn more about the subnations feature here.
If you want to keep it simple, you can also set up your site around the local party with pages for the candidates - you won't get as much tracking in the people database specific to each candidate but it is a common solution for folks.
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I need to enter the details of all two dozen candidates for our county council elections. In the UK we do not start campaigns from scratch, but have local parties that organise for election after election.
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