In 1980, Mike Shulem was asked to run a very high profile California campaign. Back then, you didn’t have a choice but to pay outside vendors to determine your target voters, to get out your mail, to poll your voters, solicit and keep track of contributors. Try to get these vendors to help you a week before the election was impossible. Or even ask them to remove the duplicate, moved or deceased voters from your list were considered a joke since they got paid based on quantity not quality.

Mike envisioned a better way. From the get-go Mike wanted to be able to find the most important voters and communicate to them in a very personal way. That and be able to do it as frequently as possible in the secrecy and privacy of his own campaign. One other very important problem that he wanted to solve was to not have to worry about reinventing the wheel every time he wanted a new list of voters during and after the election.

The solution was VoteTech. VoteTech campaign software brings all aspects of running a campaign in-house, so you can have control over the quality of our communication with your voters, now and in the future.

When you sign up as a VoteTech client, we contact your county registrars and get their current list of voters. Unlike our competitors, we don’t maintain lists of state wide files that are potentially 2 years old.

Not only do we deal with obtaining the most current data from your registrars, but we clean up the files for misspelling, carrier route the database, identify duplicate records and also have a proprietary householding program that looks at seven different criteria in each individual record to see if Mary Jones and Bill Smith reside in the same household. These features will easily save you from 10 to 15 % on your postage and printing cost. (See Why VoteTech section.)

Part of the reason why VoteTech has a 98% success rate is that we wont sell to your opponent. But this also means that if your opponent already has VoteTech, you are going to have to wait until you move up to the next level of government before being able to capitalize on the benefits of VoteTech.