The People You Know Are the Best Messengers We Have
A neighbor hears more from you than from any ad we could ever run. Reach is the app our team uses to turn your own contacts into conversations that move votes in PA-14. Download it, join our team, and start with the people already in your phone.
Get the app
Free, and it takes about two minutes to set up.
Prefer a computer? Reach also runs in your browser at app.reach.vote.
Scan to install
Why We Are Asking You to Use It
Reach connects the people you already know to our voter file, so you can see who in your circle is registered, who still needs a plan to vote, and where a nudge from a friend actually counts.
Match your contacts
Import your address book and Reach shows you which of your contacts are voters in the district.
Text with a script
Send a text or email straight from the app using wording the campaign provides, then edit it to sound like you.
Log what you hear
Record whether someone is with us, undecided, or needs a mail ballot, so nobody gets asked the same question twice.
Stay with the team
Team chat, campaign announcements, and a leaderboard so you can see how the whole crew is doing.
Five Steps, Start to Finish
Download Reach
Install it from the App Store or Google Play, or open app.reach.vote in a browser. The phone app is worth it if you plan to knock doors, since it keeps working when service drops.
Join the Bradstock team
Reach is organized by campaign, so you need our invite before you will see any PA-14 data. Open the invite link on your phone, or enter our invite code when the app asks you to join a campaign.
Import your contacts
Go to the Network tab on the My Reach screen and choose Import from your Contacts. Reach will ask permission to read your address book. Allowing access to all contacts is easier than picking a subset now and trying to add more later.
Next you decide what to search and what to share:
- Search everyone, or hand pick individual contacts.
- Set a default relationship type for the batch.
- Choose whether to share your contacts' phone numbers and emails with the campaign.
You can filter the list by name, city, street, area code, or zip, which is the fast way to narrow down to people inside the district. Then tap Search for Matching Voters in Reach.
Confirm your matches
Anyone whose name and number line up cleanly with the voter file gets added automatically, and you will see a count of those at the top. Everything else comes to you as a short list to sort out.
Tap a contact to see the possible matches, each showing a partial address and age range so you can tell people apart. Pick the right one, choose which phone number and email to save, set the relationship, and tap Add to My Network. If a contact is saved under a nickname and nothing comes up, search again with their full name.
Start the conversations
This is the part that wins the race. Work through your network and reach out using the campaign scripts, by text, email, or a phone call. Put it in your own voice. A message that sounds like you beats a polished one every time.
Log what you hear as you go, including whether they are supporting Alan and whether they need help getting a mail ballot. Keep an eye on the Action Feed for what the campaign needs most that week.
About your contacts, plainly
People hesitate here, and that is fair. You are in control of what goes in: you select which contacts get searched, you confirm each person before they are added, and you choose whether their phone numbers and emails are shared with the campaign at all.
Reach says your data is encrypted and is not passed to outside parties beyond your campaign and the tools it uses with Reach. If you want the specifics before you start, read their privacy policy.
Common Sticking Points
Tap any question for the answer.
No. Reach asks for access to your address book so it can run the search, but you choose which contacts actually get selected, and nobody is added to your network until you confirm them one by one.
You also decide whether to share your contacts' phone numbers and email addresses with the campaign. Reach states that your data is encrypted and is not shared with outside parties beyond your campaign and the tools the campaign uses with Reach. Their full policy is at reach.vote/privacy.
Reach matches against the voter file, so a contact saved as "Mom" or with emoji in the name will not turn up. Use the option to search again with a different name or location, and enter the full legal name.
Adding someone as a brand new record instead should be a last resort. Reach cautions that doing so gives up the voter file match and makes that contact much less useful to the campaign, so only do it if you are confident the person is not registered in the district.
Sign in at app.reach.vote. The web version can link your Google account to import Google Contacts, which is handy if your contacts live there rather than on your phone.
Reach does not import from a spreadsheet directly. If your list is in a CSV, the workaround is to load it into Google Contacts first, then import from there.
The phone app is built to keep working without a signal, which matters in parts of our district where coverage drops. Log your conversations as usual and they will sync when you are back online.
Reach can look through your networks from other campaigns and bring over the people who are registered in this district. Choose the option to import from other campaigns on the Network screen, and it will tell you how many it found before you confirm.
Reach documents every screen at reach.vote/knowledge-base. For anything specific to this campaign, email info@bradstockforcongress.com and we will walk you through it.
Your phone is a field office
Download the app, join the team, and start with five people you know. That is a real contribution to winning PA-14.
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