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  • Elections, Organizing, Politics

    The Shadow Economy: Why Campaign Tech Keeps Failing

    If you want to understand what happened with Shadow and the failure of its IowaReporterApp you have to understand how electoral campaign tech work is done and funded. Let me tell you a story to make sense of it. Shadow’s caucus app was built using Firebase and React, services quite...

    By: Evan Henshaw-Plath Feb 5, 2020
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  • Elections, Social Media

    Op-Ed: It’s Time to Challenge Tech’s Power at the Ballot Box

    [Editor’s note: Three days ago, Adriel Hampton, a California-based activist and civic tech professional, filed papers to run for Governor. He has since garnered headlines everywhere because he said he was running, in part, in order to test Facebook’s recently announced policy of not fact-checking political ads. He told CNN...

    By: Adriel Hampton Oct 30, 2019
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  • Elections, Organizing

    The Making of a Wave

    This week, MoveOn members will send more than 20 million text message to targeted voters. That is, on its own, nearly as many voter contacts as the 2012 Obama re-election campaign made in the climactic last four days of that contest. As of the end of October, the Beto O’Rourke...

    By: Micah L. Sifry Nov 2, 2018
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  • Civic Tech, Elections, World

    Sinar Project to Provide Malaysian Voters with Info Before Coming Elections

    Any day now, elections are expected to be called in Malaysia in what many expect to be the closest, most hard-fought race in the country’s history. Aiming to make a real impact on the information voters can access ahead of the election is the Sinar Project, a nonpartisan Malaysia civic...

    By: Nithin Coca Oct 20, 2017
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  • Election 2016, Elections, Social Media

    How Digital Inexperience Paid Off in the Trump Campaign

    The answer for digital campaigners moving forward isn’t to abandon experiments, testing, and analytics. The answer is to listen better and to continuously test standing assumptions.

    By: Dave Karpf Oct 17, 2017
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  • Civic Tech, Democracy, Elections

    Coding for a World Run by Liquid Democracy, Powered by Blockchains

    What a time to think outside the nation-state, as North Korea taunts “American bastards” with intercontinental ballistic missiles; as the Trump administration escalates immigration arrests to an unprecedented rate; as migrants and refugees pour into Central and Eastern Europe; as the United Kingdom trudges towards Brexit. It is a time...

    By: Jessica McKenzie Jul 6, 2017
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  • Elections

    All I Want for the UK’s General Election This Year

    Election season has just erupted in the U.K. with all the shock and surprise of finding that Christmas has been rescheduled from its normal position in the annual cycle to the day after tomorrow. It feels really weird and sort-of-impossible, but Santa Claus has made it very clear that you’ve...

    By: Tom Steinberg Apr 21, 2017
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  • Elections, Movements, Organizing

    How the Cool Kids Killed Obama’s Grassroots Movement

    New Media was dead, but a corpse called “Digital” rose to take its place. It was bloodless, technocratic, and made of big data.

    By: Kate Albright-Hanna Feb 21, 2017
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  • Analytics, Election 2016, Elections

    What the Left Can Learn from Trump’s Analytics Team

    Yes, the Clinton campaign struggled with messaging; that doesn’t mean we should throw away everything we’ve learned about how data can make campaigns more effective.

    By: Andy Zack Feb 15, 2017
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  • Analytics, Election 2016, Elections

    An Inclusive Vision for Democratic Technology

    While we try to understand the lessons of 2016, it is time to deal with a key missing element in the conversation on the future of Democratic technology: the voices of people who are not straight, white men.

    By: Jess Morales Rocketto Jan 10, 2017
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