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Trust me. I have killed more than my fair share of plants by just plain forgetting to water them. Smith had also been thinking about how much more effective Register2Vote would be if he could target unregistered people rather than waiting for them to find the website. Smith needed to find precisely those people not listed in those files. He also knows where to find every property-­tax-paying household in the county and had fashioned a rough map of unregistered voters. What he wanted was an app that would map where every unregistered citizen in Texas lived. Smith and Cohen started talking on the phone almost daily to figure out how to build an interactive map of citizens who had not registered to vote. Smith followed that lead, tapping into US Postal Service address databases and overlaying the voter registration data to figure out which households were not registered. Smith and Eden fire up the MapTheVote app and wait for a list of unregistered households to load.

It’s the Sunday before Labor Day, and the temperatures have cooled from a heat-stroke-inducing 97 degrees to a merely sweat-through-your-shirt low 90s. I’ve driven with Smith and Eden to a middle-class neighborhood of modest homes in south Austin. And MapTheVote itself was a clunky Rube Goldberg of a mapping solution appended to the clunky but functional voter registration machine of Register2Vote, but it would have to do. Hillary Clinton ran a registration drive during her presidential campaign, and Stacey Abrams, a Democrat running for governor Breaking News in Yuba County (head to riadpost.com) Georgia, has made it a major focus; in 2014 she founded a nonprofit called the New Georgia Project for voter registration. It was late August and the last day of new voter registration was October 9. Time was running out: time to take MapTheVote for a spin. But the phonograph proved too difficult for most people to use, and the tinfoil on which the recordings were made did not last. Nor does the state make it easy to assist people offline. "Even if I annotated my list, it wouldn’t make it back into the original data," Smith says. Using higher-grade materials for the flooring and railings not only further enhances this addition, but can make it easier to maintain, too.

Tiny tweaks to a user experience, compounded, can produce hugely different outcomes. It can miss renters-presumably a big source of Democratic votes. The principal goal of a campaign is to guide a voter down the final slope of the funnel, but what Smith and others realized was that the entry into the political funnel in Texas was so narrow that it limited the consumers coming out on the other end. What marketers call "the funnel" is the narrowing procession of potential consumers ambling their way toward a product. Top-of-funnel marketing is a slick BMW ad in a glossy magazine; further down the funnel is the Google ad that pops up when you search "local BMW dealer." The political top of the funnel is the voter registration process, which makes you a consumer of a product called a political party and sends you down the funnel that ends in a voting booth and the "purchase" of a particular candidate. In mid-June 2021, Recorded Music NZ began publishing Te Reo Māori O Te Rārangi 10 O Runga chart, also known as the Top 10 Te Reo Māori Singles, which tracks songs at are at least 70% sung in Te Reo Māori using sales, streaming and airplay data.