Deep Canvassing is effective, but almost more as a training for a volunteer than as a devoted sole tactic for a group. All workers need to be knowledgable about the candidates, election, local politics, voting laws, polling places, and also be sympathetic and compassionate with the people they are talking with. This means that the volunteers have to be really good. Lit drops and things like that may be useful, but there needs to be much more work done on design and clarity of the lit, among possible targeting improvements as well.

Synchronizing efforts across groups is another need that is lacking. There needs to be shared resources: easily accessible maps of voters and how often they voted, whether they are party associated, etc. This should be doable! MiniVAN has this but it’s only given out in chunks, somebody somewhere has all this data but it’s all obfuscated from volunteers (which is fine, but it’s also obfuscated from other organizations). There is no reason why NGP, Fair Fight, GA Stand Up, GCPA, etc etc etc couldn’t all have access to the same voter information. Well, maybe there is a reason for that, but then there just needs to be one organization which is responsible for dealing with this data and sharing it with groups that are using it for good purposes. Synchronizing Efforts Across Organizations

That is a good idea. An organization that is focused solely on the data side of these problems, gathers it, makes it accessible in a clear and usable way. I bet that would not only be useful for voting organizations, but also for legal examination and pattern finding of places where suppression is high, issues may exist, etc. Data Tool for Political Organizing