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Article: Better ethnic targeting: new methodology enhances voter files. (Political Adviser).
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- Campaigns & Elections
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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This methodology, which has been developed by a company of ethnologists and gender-identity scientists, expands the pool of ethnic voters and at the same time increases the accuracy of identifying them. It also improves targeting by gender and additionally offers the ability to target by religion.
ONE OF THE LESSONS reinforced by the 2000 election is the importance of effectively reaching out to ethnic voters (as well as defending their right to vote).
Campaigns now have at their disposal an enhanced ability to identify voters by ethnicity, gender and even religion. This methodology -- which is used by major corporations including AT&T, Bank of America ...