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US 8,478,636 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for implementing a personal “get out the vote drive” software application
OwnerScott Jeffreyinventor
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for a software tool that interfaces with a campaign's Field Operations and allows for voter education, motivation and getting voters out to vote is presented. The software tool incorporates a number of voter informational data fields to provide users of the software with a Voter Score, Voter Scorecard, Post-Election Voter History, Household Visualization, Voter Support Visualization, Household Mailing Labels, E-Mail Voter Footer, and Voter List of Friends and Family.
Claims11
An apparatus for encouraging voter participation in elections, the apparatus comprising:
- a server adapted for networked communications to receive information from and send information to a plurality of users;
- a database, in which at least voter-related data relating to at least one of the users of the plurality of users is stored;
- and
- an application code, operable by the server and which performs at least the steps of:
- creating a member account;
- importing the voter-related data into the database;
- vetting the voter-related data for errors and omissions;
- searching of the voter-related data;
- and
- creating a voter list associated with the member account using results from the searching;
- wherein the step of vetting the voter-related data comprises checking for internal inconsistencies, external inconsistencies, anomalies and patterns, and
- wherein precinct information, address information or name information in the voter-related data is used to determine if two differently-named streets are the same street.
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An apparatus for a voter participation system, the apparatus comprising:
- a server adapted for networked communications to receive information from and send information to a plurality of users;
- a database, in which at least voter-related data is stored;
- and
- an application code, operable by the server and which performs at least the steps of:
- creating a member account corresponding to at least one user of the plurality of users;
- searching of the voter-related data;
- creating a voter list associated with the member account using results from the searching;
- and
- utilizing the voter-related data to determine a precinct of the intended recipient of the information.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.