MDP Help Desk

VAN has upwards of 40 canvass result codes, but many overlap or have similar meanings, and can be confusing for volunteers. To that end, we strongly recomme...

Cutting turf is the process of taking a list of voters from Create a List and organizing them into geographic units for knocking doors. You’ll want to bring...

Virtual phone banks allow you to call voters in VAN and enter data from your conversations in real-time. The virtual phone bank will display your script ...

Scripts specify the language that a canvasser or caller will see in miniVAN or a virtual phone bank while speaking to a voter, and defines what data is coll...

The MiniVAN User Guide walks canvassers through downloading and using the MiniVAN app on their phone. See attachment. 

Survey questions are used to store data collected from the field in VAN. You can include them in the scripts you create to collect information from the fiel...

We are creating survey questions and activist codes in-house in order to provide better standardization and data storage/mapping. We are now sharing more su...