Using early vote & absentee ballot data in Votebuilder
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Removing People Who Have Already Voted When Creating Lists
Click on “Create a List” on your sidebar navigation
Open the “Early Voting” search criteria box
Check the Exclude People Who Have Early Voted or Absentee Voted box
Click the “Preview My Results” button to see your voter count
Creating a list of voters who have not returned their ballots (Chase)
Click on “Create a List” on your sidebar navigation
Open the “Early Voting” search criteria box
Go down to the “Early Voter Status” section
Check the “Anyone who Requested a Ballot” box
5. Go to “Add Step”
6. Select “Narrow People”
7. Under “Early Voting”, select the "Exclude People who have early voted or absentee voted"
Automatically Remove Early Voters from Phonebank
When setting up your Virtual Phone Bank, check the:
Exclude anyone who has Early Voted or Absentee Voted
Exclude anyone who has voted on Election Day
Note: This setting is found in the last step of the Virtual Phone Bank setup process. If you need a refresher on setting up VPB's, here's the link to our walkthrough!
Analyzing Voting Returns Using Counts and Crosstabs
Note: To pull a list of ONLY people who have voted so far, the search criteria is like a double negative. You have to Exclude people who have already voted from being Removed from the list. Here's how:
Go to Create a List
Select your district from the Home Districts
Then click Add Step > Remove People
4. In your Remove People step, go to the Early Voting tab
5. Check the Exclude People Who Have Early Voted
6. Click Run Search
6. Click on the “Counts” button and “Run Quick Counts and Crosstabs”
6. On the Counts and Crosstabs page, Select a Data Field for Column 1 (Example: Age) and/or Crosstab 1 (Example: Party)
7. Click on “Refresh Results”
This is an invaluable tool to be able to analyze how your district is shaping up and what the electorate looks like.
