The packet

One packet, built for one block.

There's no login, no app, and no training. You get a PDF by email with your own street in it and the few things you need to walk it. Here's every page.

PDF · 15 pages · no email required
Page by page

What's in the packet.

The street map

Page one. Your ten nearest doors, numbered, on your own streets. The colors tell you who's who: red skips midterms, gold has never voted, green already votes and might knock with you. The door list later in the packet uses the same numbers.

If you only read one more page

Page two. The three or four doors to knock on first, numbered to match the map, three things to say at the door, and the key dates. If you read nothing else, you can still walk your block with this page.

The welcome letter

Why we asked you: you vote in every general election, and these doors are on your street. It ends with one thing to do first, so the packet doesn't sit unread.

The door list

A quick look at your precinct, then your ten nearest doors. For each door: everyone registered there, whether they voted in past Novembers, how they voted -- early, by mail, or on Election Day -- and a line on what to say to them.

How to talk to a neighbor about voting

One page: how to start, what to do if they're busy, and when to wrap up.

The voting-plan card

Four questions that help someone actually vote: when, where, how they're getting there, and what to bring. People who say yes but have no plan often don't make it.

The key dates

North Carolina's 2026 election dates, checked against the State Board of Elections. The most useful thing to know: during early voting, you can register and vote on the same day.

Why this one is public

Why we can't show you a real one.

A real packet has neighbors' names, home addresses and voting records. It belongs to the captain, and nobody else sees it.

So for this sample we made up a precinct. Every person, age, address and ballot in it is fake, and so are the precinct numbers and the polling place.

The software is real. Every page after the cover was made by the same program that makes real packets, just pointed at the made-up data. The streets on the map are real streets in Enfield, in Halifax County, and the mix of early, mail and Election Day voting matches Halifax's real 2022 numbers. What you download is what a captain gets.

Download the sample packet

A page from the sample packet: ten numbered doors on a captain's own streets, coloured by who behind each one skips midterms, has never voted, or already votes and can help knock.
How the data is handled

Where the data comes from, and where it doesn't go.

  • We make packets from public records: the statewide voter file and voting history, official polling-place lists, AddressNC, and NC OneMap precinct maps.
  • Everything runs on our own computers. To put addresses on the map we use address files we've downloaded, with saved results from the Census Bureau's free lookup as a backup.
  • Finished packets have names and addresses, so we never put them online or in our code history. Nothing about a single household is ever published.
  • Some addresses can't be placed on the map. We leave those blank instead of guessing.
  • The voter file only shows where people are registered now, not where they used to live.
  • The public voter file doesn't include birthdays, so anywhere a date matters we use the date someone registered instead, and the page says so.

You'd walk your own ten doors.

If you're in North Carolina and you vote in every general election, tell us where you live and we'll make your packet. It's free, and it has nothing to do with any party.

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