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leftcoastmountains

(2,968 posts)
Wed Jan 20, 2016, 06:14 PM Jan 2016

Bernie Sanders Phone Volunteers Reach MILLIONS of Voters... Per Day!

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With less than two weeks until the Iowa caucuses, it’s more important than ever to be identifying voters for the canvassers on the ground. And identifying voters, we are! By the MILLIONS! In Iowa alone!

At one peak time call time last weekend 11,213 Bernie Callers were logged on at the same time and reached 602,744 potential voters in all the four early voting states... IN ONE HOUR!!! There are serious questions about whether the databases that the automatic dialer software pulls from can keep up.

By comparison, with Obama 2008, one of the 2008 Phone Bank technologists, now working with Bernie 2016, says he recalls one-night team Obama had a huge celebration when they hit, "a bit over 400,000 voters reached in one evening."

Guided by the campaign and built by the all-volunteer Coders for Bernie in just under two weeks, the Sander 2016 campaign has been live for the last month with a purpose-built campaign dialing system and voter identity system which reaches live voters at a rates the builders believe are 3x-5x faster than any other systems used by any other Presidential Campaign.


http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/20/1472217/-Bernie-Sanders-Phone-Volunteers-Reach-MILLIONS-of-Voter-Per-Day

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Bernie Sanders Phone Volunteers Reach MILLIONS of Voters... Per Day! (Original Post) leftcoastmountains Jan 2016 OP
I was asked to switch from calling Iowa to calling NH as the system was running out of Gmak Jan 2016 #1
Thank you for your hard work. azmom Jan 2016 #2
Thank you! artislife Jan 2016 #3
Not kidding there at all. I had a definite sense of scraping the bottom of the barrel-- eridani Jan 2016 #4
leftcoastmountains, I am surprised and delighted by you OP...and still cannot believe my eyes... nenagh Jan 2016 #5

Gmak

(88 posts)
1. I was asked to switch from calling Iowa to calling NH as the system was running out of
Wed Jan 20, 2016, 06:57 PM
Jan 2016

voters to call on Sunday afternoon. The system is very fast. As an old lady, I was hard-pressed to keep up, but did have some interesting conversations, despite the football games.

eridani

(51,907 posts)
4. Not kidding there at all. I had a definite sense of scraping the bottom of the barrel--
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 07:18 AM
Jan 2016

--lots or wrong numbers, though probably some were people just saying that because they were tired of being bugged about the caucuses so much.

nenagh

(1,925 posts)
5. leftcoastmountains, I am surprised and delighted by you OP...and still cannot believe my eyes...
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 08:05 AM
Jan 2016

Stephen Spoonamore is on Bernie's team! I wouldn't know about Stephen Spoonamore, but years ago a DUer posted a video of him discussing how the 2004 election could have been electronically hijacked.

What a joy it is to see him a caucus chairman for Bernie and to watch him explain how to use the new phone system..

Thank you leftcoastmountains...

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