DNC holding training this week for rollout of new nationwide voter file.

[madfloridian]

The ones being trained will head back to train their local parties in its use.

DNC holds national training as it rolls out new voter file

In what is billed as the next stage of the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) 50 State Strategy, national and state Democratic staffers are convening in Cleveland this week to train on the party’s new multimillion-dollar nationwide voter file.

About 200 Democratic staffers from all 50 states are meeting at Cleveland State University for a three-day intensive training session on the new VoteBuilder program and interface. The goal is to “train the trainer,” allowing attendees to pass knowledge along to Democrats at all levels once they return to their states.

...."The DNC announced in February that it had signed on with the Voter Activation Network (VAN) to build a nationwide interface for the new voter file, providing greater cohesion from the local level up. The new voter file will be free to all state parties and Democratic candidates.

..."Democrats feel the new voter file will give them a leg up on the GOP, which is renowned for its vaunted 72-hour get-out-the-vote program and micro-targeting successes.

The nationwide uniformity of the VoteBuilder interface will allow the party to track voters who move and continue updating their information so operatives in their new area will be able to target and understand them more efficiently.

I like that it is available for local candidates, for free. I am wondering if the candidates will use this one for 08? Or if they will use the one developed privately by Harold Ickes? Just wondering.

Ickes private data mining

A group of well-connected Democrats led by a former top aide to Bill Clinton is raising millions of dollars to start a private firm that plans to compile huge amounts of data on Americans to identify Democratic voters and blunt what has been a clear Republican lead in using technology for political advantage.

The effort by Harold Ickes, a deputy chief of staff in the Clinton White House and an adviser to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), is prompting intense behind-the-scenes debate in Democratic circles. Officials at the Democratic National Committee think that creating a modern database is their job, and they say that a competing for-profit entity could divert energy and money that should instead be invested with the national party.

I wondered why they would be so untrusting that they had to do their own.

Good for the DNC, and the training is a great idea.

[madfloridian]

1. Just thought I would toss this out there.

It gives a chance to add another to the 3 posts in two days saying not to donate.

And so those who are criticizing Dean for his FISA vote in another thread can do it again. So they can talk about how badly he is doing in congress. I guess I should put the sarcasm tag, but I don't think it is needed.

[blm]

2. I am so glad he's being proactive about this.

The RNC machine put Bush in office twice. The DNC machine was asleep at the wheel or nonexistent in too many states where it had been allowed to collapse completely.

What a difference an engaged Chairman makes - one who does his job for the voters and the Dem candidates and does give ashot abou schmoozing it up with the DC powerstructure that rulesboth parties.

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[madfloridian]

6. But you need to see the thread...

that blasts the DNC for calling them because of how he voted on FISA...and another post saying why isn't Dean starting impeachment.

[MaineDem]

3. The voter file platform is made available to state parties for no charge

The data and access to it is not free to candidates. The state parties can charge candidates for it. The DNC can charge nation-wide candidates for access to the voter file with the money going to the state parties involved.

Edited for grammar.

[madfloridian]

5. You need to contact the reporter to fix it.

They should not print that if it is not true.

We are not that active locally lately, so I am not that aware.

It's sort of like we are not really welcome if we don't feel all lovey-dovey about the new primary date, if we don't think our party chair should lobby with the former GOP head while chairing the party...and if we think what Dean is doing is a good thing.

We fail on all accounts to suit our party here. We need to back off a little.

[MaineDem]

4. Dean holding a rally in Cleveland tomorrow

Howard Dean to Discuss Voter Protection Efforts, 50-State Strategy at
Cleveland Grassroots Rally
***Media Advisory***

Washington, DC - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean
will outline the Democratic Party's unprecedented new national voter
protection survey at a DNC grassroots rally in Cleveland on Wednesday,
August 15. Dean will join DNC Vice Chair and Cleveland native Susie
Turnbull and Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern at the
Crowne Plaza City Center at 5:30 p.m.

In addition to discussing the Party's new efforts to protect
fundamental voting rights for all Americans, Dean will highlight the success of
the DNC's 50 State Strategy in the Democratic victories last November,
thank grassroots activists for their support, and outline the Democratic
Party's plan for keeping its majority and taking back the White House
in 2008.

Who: DNC Chairman Howard Dean

What: DNC Grassroots Rally

When: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 at 5:30 p.m.

Where: Crowne Plaza Cleveland City Centre Hotel, 777 St. Clair Ave.
NE, Cleveland, OH 44114