A new app to be unveiled by the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) chief technology officer includes a toolkit for helping campaigns manage their field operations, Bloomberg reports. The product is called Republic VX and allows campaigns to look at the efficacy of specific volunteers, for example, or even detect when volunteers are lying by claiming they’d knocked on more doors than they had, the report states. It will use the RNC’s voter file, automating updates to it by the end of each election season to keep the database fresh. It’s an indication of the RNC’s new seriousness about using and improving data systems for campaigning, the report states.
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