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The Game-ification of political volunteering and fundraising
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As I've been listening to the Debug podcast, it occurred to me that there was a real experiment that could be undertaken to bring Gamification to political fundraising and volunteering.

One of the things that OFA 2008 and 2012 did was empower groups to engage in fundraising. Also, individuals were empowered to phone-bank and do volunteer organizing at an unprecedented level. But what if that kind of thinking could be brought down to non-POTUS races? Could we actually gamify the big things that draw citizens to participate? And have those things be a way to create access?

You could make a core app or set of apps and then skin them for each candidate. That way the codebase is very reusable and the ideas are scalable.

I think this has some legs.

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