Colorado mails every ballot. From the day they drop, the county tells you who has voted and who has not, refreshed all day long. Most down ballot campaigns never work that file. Precinct analysis, walk universes, and mail ballot chase, billed at a posted hourly rate against access your committee already holds.
This is the whole thesis. Everything before the drop is preparation. Everything after it is arithmetic that gets stale in hours.
Every active voter gets a ballot. Your universe is now fixed and the clock is running. If the turf is not cut by this morning, you are already behind.
Ballot returned reports start refreshing. Every name that comes back leaves your chase list. The universe only shrinks from here.
Roughly half the ballots are in. What is left is your actual persuasion and turnout problem, and it is a fraction of the list you started with.
Drop off traffic and the last supporters who have not voted. The final push list is built off returns from that morning, not from a list built in September.
Signature discrepancy and ID cure. Real ballots from real supporters, rejected on a technicality, recoverable by a phone call. Almost nobody down ballot works this.
Six things, in the order a campaign needs them.
What the district actually is, before anyone spends a dollar. Registration composition, turnout history by precinct, and the difference between the two, which answer different questions and get confused constantly.
The number you have to hit, worked backward into the number of doors, calls, and pieces of mail that get you there. Most campaigns pick an activity level and hope. This inverts it.
Lists built to be walked by an actual volunteer on an actual Saturday. Cut for density and drive time, not just filtered and exported.
The 22 day window, worked. Returns pulled twice daily, the chase universe rebuilt every pull, and a fresh list in your organizer's hands each morning and afternoon.
Eight days after the election, ballots from your own supporters are still sitting rejected over a signature mismatch. They are curable, they are identified by name, and almost nobody down ballot works the list.
Every deliverable timestamped and logged from day one, visible to you. You always know what hours bought what, and nobody has to reconstruct it in November.
We do not license voter data and resell you analysis of it. Your committee holds its own access and we operate inside it as a named user. This is the same doctrine we publish for domains and hosting, and it is better for you on four separate counts.
An unreimbursed payment made on a committee's behalf is a reportable in kind contribution at fair market value. A data subscription is a material, not volunteer labor. If your committee pays for its own access, there is nothing to value and nothing to disclose.
Commercial voter file licenses are scoped to a licensee and generally do not permit passing derived records to a third party. A vendor who resells you analysis off their own seat is handing you a contract question you did not agree to. Operating inside your license avoids it entirely.
Party sourced records live in a separate store for your campaign only, and it is deleted when we are done. What we keep and reuse is public: county and state lists, voter history, precinct results, district geography, census. None of it is yours and none of it is licensed.
First time, nonpartisan, and unaffiliated candidates frequently have no party data at all. The county clerk list is a complete path to everything on this page except modeled scores, which the work does not require. The request goes out in your committee's name.
Every package below is a block of hours at that rate. The price is arithmetic you can check, not a number invented for your proposal.
| Package | Hours | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recon | 12 | $1,200 | Terrain report, precinct history, vote goal math, universe counts, map |
| Turf | 28 | $2,800 | Recon plus walk universes, turf cuts, canvasser ready maps |
| Ballot Chase | 35 | $3,500 | 10 hrs per week across the 3.5 week mail window |
| Full Cycle | 65 | $6,500 | All three, booked together |
| Cure Recovery | 8 | $800 | Standalone, cure window only |
| Additional hours | As needed | $100/hr | Half hour increments, approved in writing before the work starts |
| Federal & statewide | Scoped | By quote | Different rules and a different scope. Not sold off this page. |
| Allied Party | Scoped | Sliding scale | A county committee buying chase for a full slate |
› Chase is 35 hours because Colorado ballots mail 22 days out. That is 3.5 weeks at 10 hours a week. The number is derived, not chosen.
Hours are scheduled by the week and expire at the end of each scheduled week whether they are used or not. They are not refundable, not transferable, and not carried forward. Reserved capacity is billed regardless of use because it is withheld from other campaigns.
Weekly rather than pooled, deliberately. A pooled block invites a campaign to want 16 hours in week three, which is the week nobody has 16 hours. This same language is in the proposal and in the contract, and every deliverable is logged with a timestamp so you can always see what your hours bought.
Five ballot chase clients per cycle, maximum. The mail window is the same 22 days for every campaign in Colorado. Six clients is a promise that gets broken in public. Chase is prepaid in full before ballots mail, and Recon and Turf take a deposit at booking. One campaign per race, always.
Every one of these is something a campaign has been sold before. Read this section as a filter. If you wanted any of it, we are the wrong firm.
Colorado publishes whether a ballot has been returned. Nothing in any file we touch, public or party, records how a person marked it. Any vendor implying otherwise is either confused or lying, and in a small race that becomes a news story.
Every record comes from a county clerk, the Secretary of State, or a license your committee holds. No harvested emails, no resold consumer files of unknown provenance, no data whose origin we cannot name to you.
Party credentials are issued to a person for a specific campaign. Yours is used for yours and closed at the end. There is no shared pool, no borrowed seat, and no shortcut when your access is slow to arrive.
Data operations raise your contact efficiency and tell you the truth earlier. They do not win races on their own, and no honest vendor will put a number on your margin. If the math says the seat is out of reach, you will hear that from us in week one.
You need access, and it can be free. If your committee has a party data platform account, we work inside it. If you have nothing, your county clerk sells or provides the list, and in some counties it costs nothing at all. We tell you exactly what to request and who signs it, and the request goes out in your committee's name.
Because it would cost you more and expose you to two problems you do not need. If we paid for your data access and did not bill it back, that is a reportable in kind contribution at fair market value, and it lands on your disclosure report rather than ours. Separately, commercial file licenses are scoped to the licensee and generally do not permit handing derived records to a third party. Your committee holding its own access removes both questions.
Anything exported from a party platform lives in a store built for your campaign alone, never mixed with another client's, and it is deleted at the close of the engagement. What we keep is public information: county and state voter lists, voter history, precinct results, district geography, census data, and our own precinct level aggregates. Aggregate lessons travel to the next race. Your records do not.
Ballot Chase is 35 hours booked as 10 hours a week for three and a half weeks. If your campaign only sends work for four hours in week two, the other six are gone. They were held for you and not sold to anyone else, which is exactly what you were paying for. This is stated here, in your proposal, and in your contract, and every deliverable is logged with a timestamp so the record is never in dispute.
No. One campaign per race, without exception. It is not a legal requirement, it is a business rule, and it is not negotiable at any price.
Because the mail window is the same 22 days for every campaign in the state. Chase is not work that can be moved to a quieter week, and a sixth client means somebody's Tuesday list arrives Wednesday. Five is the number that can actually be delivered.
No. Federal and statewide races run under a different rules regime and a different scope, and the packages above are built for school board, municipal, and legislative budgets. Send a brief and we will scope it properly. Start by telling us what your committee already holds for data access and who else is bidding.
Yes, and it is most of the reason the clerk data path matters. Everything on this page except party modeled scores runs on public files, and the work does not depend on those scores. Precinct history, turnout math, geography, and the return and cure reports are all public.
Yes. Web builds are a separate line with its own flat pricing, and the two work well together because the analysis tells the site what to say and to whom. Book them separately or together.