Introduction
This is a tool to help volunteers go door-knocking by organizing their voter base data into a Google Spreadsheet and displaying that in an intuitive visual fashion.
This will help get rid of messy papers that canvassers need to carry around.
Built using Google App Sheets
Features
- The app displays every voter as an icon on the map according to their support level
- Canvassers are able to select an icon and be redirected to google maps for directions
- Canvassers are able to easily document a new voter’s info from the app GUI instead of having to manipulate spreadsheets
- Data validity and ease of use is ensured using a system which predicts and suggests the correct data based on voters lists.
- Canvassers can add additional comments for each voter they encounter and after each visitation
- The app is adaptable for phones, tablets, web browsers, or PC standalone applications.
- The voter base is divided into polling zones which can be assigned to specific users of the app for security and convenience.
- Currently servicing over 200 000 voters
- The functionality and performance of the app was later expanded to support event management as well as volunteer management. It is possible to organize and send invitations to specific volunteers to attend certain events from the app. The scope of the app was also expanded to service 2,000,000 voters.
- A new application was created from scratch in React with predictive autocompletion, each field value would act to narrow subsequent field drop down options to speed up the data entry process. In practice, this allowed for instantaneous data entry after an average of two fields were filled such as street name and street number.