Using get out the vote effectively
Get out the vote (GOTV) is a handy tool to very quickly check off people you know have voted in an election. For example, imagine you are running a local election campaign for your party. You would want to maximize your vote, and the best way to do this is to know if your supporters have voted or not. This recipe shows you how to create reports that show how well you and your opponents are doing.
How to do it…
The CiviCRM database needs to hold party affiliation data for each individual that is going to vote for your party. The best way to hold this data is not within a survey, but in a set of custom fields organized into an individual profile. Most local political organizations have gathered this valuable data over the years, and it can be imported into CiviCRM to form the basis of your election campaign. In this recipe, we will create a set of custom fields and add them to a profile. We will then use the profile in a batch update for all the individual...
