Could E-Mail Data From BOE Level Campaign Playing Field?
June 14, 2010 – 12:46 pmFor around $30 you can get a disk from the GC BOE showing all registered voters in your district. That disk provides a lot of information but does not include e-mail addresses. The BOE does not collect e-mail addresses.
Campaign mailers are around $0.50 each. Let’s say you wanted to send out mailers to 5000 households in your district. One to introduce yourself and one to discuss issues. You’re in for $5000 so far and that doesn’t include yard signs or other expenses.
If the BOE would collect e-mail addresses as part of your voter registration you could accomplish the same thing for basically the price of the disk.
Some would argue that an e-mail may not be as effective as a mailer or could get lost in a spam folder somewhere and they may be right.
As of now many elections are determined by the candidate that can raise the most money. This seems like a very reachable alternative on a minor scale in leveling the campaign playing field.
7 Responses to “Could E-Mail Data From BOE Level Campaign Playing Field?”
I’m much rather deal with Campaign Email (I often do) than the Robo Calls. The calls are so poorly done that I hang up within a few seconds.
At least with email, candidates could catch your attention, if they were email savvy.
By Don Moore on Jun 14, 2010
Email, robo-calls, mailers. I don’t want ANY of them. Unless the BOE enforces a “do not email” policy, then I vote NO, as I do on collecting DNA from anyone who is not convicted of a crime.
My email address is just like my phone number and I want them both to be private.
Marcus Kindley is spamming me with crap I did not sign up for and can’t get off his list. This is a spokesman for Republicans? I’ve reported him twice to the FCC and to his ISP and am waiting for his account to be yanked.
That’s what happens when pols get your email address.
By Sue on Jun 14, 2010
But Dr. Sue, how do you propose that one solicits your vote?
Oh, and by the way, Bill Wright is the Chairman and the spokesperson for the Guilford County GOP. Mr. Kindley may be sending you info on some of the conservative groups he is associated with outside the GC GOP.
I’m ready for a lunch date.
By Tony Wilkins on Jun 14, 2010
I’m ready for lunch. You’re hard to pin down to a time but one of those Adams Farm-area places you show that great food from is sort of enticing.
(Marcus was chair of GC GOP; he’s a pol. I don’t want them using my email unless I specifically sign up for it and can end the relationship whenever I want. Politicians COULD use those weird things called blogs and websites to gain my attention.)
By Sue on Jun 14, 2010
Hey everyone, hope you are doing well.
Tony, email addresses can be purchased if you’re simply trying to reach a mass audience - and they can be targeted by location.
Don, you might not like robo-calls, but they are wildly cost efficient and effective.
Sue, remember when you got my robo-call last year? They work. You should click spam every time you get an email from Marcus…
And Tony, did you see that your name is listed on Cal Cunningham’s campaign finance report?
By ryan Shell on Jun 21, 2010
Good to hear from you Ryan.
And you know that must be a different Tony Wilkins!
By Tony Wilkins on Jun 22, 2010
I thought about sending in a donation on your behalf… just to make myself laugh! Joking. Things are rocking - hope you aren’t causing too much trouble.
By ryan Shell on Jun 22, 2010