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    1. rabble‏ @rabble 4 Feb 2020

      In normal tech circles we’d have a bunch of free software libraries and tools we build on together, but the campaign tech space doesn’t have this because decision makers fear our tools will be taken and used by the other side.

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    2. rabble‏ @rabble 4 Feb 2020

      This is despite the fact that ‘they’ use totally different standards, tech, and structure of work. Ours works better than theirs, but it’s not saying much.

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    3. rabble‏ @rabble 4 Feb 2020

      In the wake of the 2016 election there was a lot of energy around funding better tools. We had folks like @raffi go over to work at the DNC. We had Higher Ground Labs promise money in to the space, they funded Shadow, and many other projects.

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    4. rabble‏ @rabble 4 Feb 2020

      Unfortunately they funded it using a startup / incubator model. Giving startup funds to many projects in a cohort and helping them get to an MVP and pitch founders for more money.

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    5. rabble‏ @rabble 4 Feb 2020

      After the initial infusion, there was no more money to be had. These projects all failed when they ran out of money. There was no budget to fund development between cycles. The decision makers know nothing about how technology, or its development works.

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    6. rabble‏ @rabble 4 Feb 2020

      Most of us gave up on building campaign tech. Thousands of other dedicated technologists who are organized through http://progcode.org  and http://ragtag.org  are struggling but unsustainable.

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    7. rabble‏ @rabble 4 Feb 2020

      Campaign networks like indivisible, sister district, swing left, all use extensive tech but don’t have budgets to fund its development.

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    8. rabble‏ @rabble 4 Feb 2020

      I myself am now building @planetaryinc, @slaby is at @harmonylabs, @harper is bouncing around the world being his fabulous self having left the Obama campaign to do a payments startup. @elipariser is doing @civic_signals to fix social media platforms.

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    9. rabble‏ @rabble 4 Feb 2020

      The decision makers refuse to use free software, alienating the progcoders/ragtag communities. They also refuse to fund projects between cycles to build reusable platforms.

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    10. rabble‏ @rabble 4 Feb 2020

      So what do projects like http://affinity.works  and shadow do when they want to keep the lights on? They take one off campaign jobs. Affinity built tools for the Yes on 1631 carbon tax campaign in Washington, and Shadow built a caucus tool for state democrats.

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      rabble‏ @rabble 4 Feb 2020

      This was a quick tool which was put together without sufficient funding. See, building tech is expensive. We can see from the budgets that the Iowa Democratic Party only paid $60k to shadow, and the Nevada party paid $58k.

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        2. rabble‏ @rabble 4 Feb 2020

          It might feel like a lot, but it really isn’t given how much this stuff costs to build. It’s why the app wasn’t well tested or scaled well. The team was a few enthusiastic recent code school grads and one experienced engineer. This was their side project they built to get funding

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        3. rabble‏ @rabble 4 Feb 2020

          There is no way they could succeed. The problem is structural, the way we’re funding campaign tech is wrong. We need it to be based on open source technology, we need a community of companies, parties, and third party groups funding it. It needs to have funding between cycles.

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        4. rabble‏ @rabble 4 Feb 2020

          There needs to be much more money in order to sustain things. The Obama and Clinton campaigns spent tens (maybe hundreds) of millions of dollars on tech but it was building tech which was mostly thrown away.

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        5. rabble‏ @rabble 4 Feb 2020

          We’ve got a few vendors that last between cycles, but all the techies who work on campaigns go back to normal startups.

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        6. rabble‏ @rabble 4 Feb 2020

          A couple days after Obama was re-elected the political staffers walked in to the tech floor of the Obama campaign HQ and wondered where everyone was. They’d all be laid off, @harper had found them jobs in industry & everybody faded back in to tech companies.

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        7. rabble‏ @rabble 4 Feb 2020

          From a staff of hundreds, a handful went to work at the White House or OFA, but for the most part that knowledge was all lost.

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        8. rabble‏ @rabble 4 Feb 2020

          We’re treating our campaign tech teams like we treat the field organizers, and it’s not working. It doesn't work for the field teams either, that's why they unionized.

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        9. rabble‏ @rabble 4 Feb 2020

          If we want to prevent disasters like the Iowa caucus app or the failure to do effective social media campaigning in 2016, we need to change the way we fund, build, and employ the campaign workers, techies included.

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        10. rabble‏ @rabble 4 Feb 2020

          What should have been done? The app shouldn’t have been built. This didn’t require an app. There are lots of ways to submit and verify vote counts without needing a custom app. At least they kept the paper backup. The sexy desire to have an app is something we should avoid.

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        11. rabble‏ @rabble 4 Feb 2020

          Focus on the problem, not the solution of an app which sounds cool. The Iowa Democratic Party shouldn’t have asked for an app. The media shouldn’t have hailed it as futuristic, we shouldn’t demand immediate electoral results, and shadow shouldn’t have tried to build it.

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        12. rabble‏ @rabble 4 Feb 2020

          You could have done a system with google docs and having multiple people send in pictures of the tallies at each polling place. Or any number of other solutions which requires less software. There’s a whole field of lean startups dedicated to solving the problem with less code.

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        13. rabble‏ @rabble 4 Feb 2020

          Folks like @mattblaze and @EdFelten, and many others have documented why digital voting systems are a broken concept. There is is no way to do it securely. Use paper, use people, verify, audit, make it transparent to all the campaigns. Force the media to wait for results.

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        14. rabble‏ @rabble 5 Feb 2020

          I feel i should make sure the record is set. ActionKit wasn't going under when they joined @NGPVAN, rather they thought it would be better to have both under the same roof to connect the electoral and advocacy campaigns.

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        15. rabble‏ @rabble 5 Feb 2020

          Groups like @ControlShiftLab & @TheActionNet make enough money to sustain themselves independently through their users paying subscriptions. They're working on new products and features. I just wish they had triple budget for the dev and design teams. We could do SO much more.

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        16. rabble‏ @rabble 5 Feb 2020

          We had a booth about open source advocacy and activism tech at the 2017 Netroots Nation. We gathered together a few projects between http://affinity.works  and @jlev but we definitely were the odd kids out.pic.twitter.com/iAf82iogTb

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        17. rabble‏ @rabble 5 Feb 2020

          If you want to look at groups who are providing the tech skills and people to campaigns, check out what @kategage is doing with http://lab736.com . The truism is that it's always a people problem. You solve that with people... well and money and technology. ;-D

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