Hi everyone, I've just released a plugin called Your Right Campaign Voter Outreach that's designed to help small political campaigns in the US and Canada with door to door voter outreach and Get Out The Vote (GOTV) efforts leading up to an election!

The plugin allows a campaign to import a CSV of voter data from their local election authority, such as their local county, and use that data to create custom walk lists for door-to-door campaigning. The candidate or their campaign imports the voter data, then creates a list from that data that a volunteer can use to go house to house soliciting support. For the volunteer, the list appears in a custom volunteer portal where each voter's name and address is accessible to them.

As a volunteer walks their walk list, they can mark off each contact along with a relevant status, such as pledged to vote, not home, moved, etc. They can also mark whether a person has received a mail in ballot, voted early, etc as well as leave custom notes for each voter. The volunteer portal is optimized for mobile and designed to be used in the field. Volunteers can also search voters on their list by contact status, vote status and and name / address as well as filter their contacts based on even / odd addresses so one team can split up outreach on a single block.

All voter contacts are logged in real time and each volunteer can log a support score for a voter, indicating how likely a voter is to vote for the candidate's campaign. This tool is designed to make it easy for small campaigns who may be low on funds to easily manage Get Out The Vote efforts for local and municipal races.

Encryption of voter data is present out of the box and the plugin also supports storing a custom encryption key and salt in your wp-config.php file for extra security. Voter data is protected with custom user roles and the plugin makes it easy to set up volunteers who have access to walk a walk list or search and edit voter data. As far as I'm aware, this plugin is one of the only options available for a campaign who wants to truly self-host their own voter data for free.

You can download the plugin free on WordPress.org or learn more about the plugin on my website. I'm also working on creating a manual for the plugin that goes over the whole process of importing voter data and setting up a campaign in more detail.

Download Your Right Campaign Voter Outreach from WordPress.org