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emptywheel: Oh, hey, the $100M Elon is paying for rent-a-canvassers has a big flaw.
emptywheel (mountain bluebird)
Oh, hey, the $100M Elon is paying for rent-a-canvassers has a big flaw.
😂
https://theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/14/trump-ground-game-smartphone-app (archived: https://archive.ph/lqZq6 )
11:22 AM · Oct 14, 2024
Oh, hey, the $100M Elon is paying for rent-a-canvassers has a big flaw.
😂
https://theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/14/trump-ground-game-smartphone-app (archived: https://archive.ph/lqZq6 )
11:22 AM · Oct 14, 2024
The Guardian (archived: https://archive.ph/lqZq6) - Trump ground game undercut by slow internet that crashes app
Trump campaign wants to hit rural voters but slow internet limits the functionality of the Campaign Sidekick app
Hugo Lowell in Washington
Mon 14 Oct 2024 06.00 EDT
Donald Trump’s campaign has limited ability to know whether their ground game operation is reaching target voters in battleground states, as the software being used needs fast internet service to properly track canvassers, according to multiple people familiar with the situation.
The Trump campaign this cycle is targeting so-called low propensity Trump voters, who are often in rural areas, as part of their bet that hitting those people who don’t typically vote but would cast a ballot for Trump if they did, could make a difference in a close election.
But the Trump campaign and the Elon Musk-backed America Pac, which is now doing an outsized portion of the Trump ground game, use a management app called Campaign Sidekick that struggles in areas with slow internet and means canvassers have to use an offline version.
The Campaign Sidekick app effectively forces canvassers who have less than 40mbps of internet – sufficient to stream 4K video – to use “offline walkbooks” which have no geo-tracking feature and do not always upload after a route is completed, the people said.
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Trump campaign wants to hit rural voters but slow internet limits the functionality of the Campaign Sidekick app
Hugo Lowell in Washington
Mon 14 Oct 2024 06.00 EDT
Donald Trump’s campaign has limited ability to know whether their ground game operation is reaching target voters in battleground states, as the software being used needs fast internet service to properly track canvassers, according to multiple people familiar with the situation.
The Trump campaign this cycle is targeting so-called low propensity Trump voters, who are often in rural areas, as part of their bet that hitting those people who don’t typically vote but would cast a ballot for Trump if they did, could make a difference in a close election.
But the Trump campaign and the Elon Musk-backed America Pac, which is now doing an outsized portion of the Trump ground game, use a management app called Campaign Sidekick that struggles in areas with slow internet and means canvassers have to use an offline version.
The Campaign Sidekick app effectively forces canvassers who have less than 40mbps of internet – sufficient to stream 4K video – to use “offline walkbooks” which have no geo-tracking feature and do not always upload after a route is completed, the people said.
/snip
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