How it works, from spreadsheet to a full schedule

Setup takes ten minutes

A setup wizard asks for your election dates, wards, places, and shift times. Then it builds the whole grid for you.

DC campaigns start from a built-in pack: 74 election day sites and 25 early voting sites. Other places enter their sites once and reuse them every cycle.

Import survives real spreadsheets

Upload a spreadsheet from your own tracker, your party, or the QR sign-up pool. The importer matches your columns, splits full names, and cleans up phones and emails.

It also fixes ward drift, so Ward 4, 4.0, and 4 all become one thing. Then it finds duplicates by email, then phone, then close name matches.

We built it against real DC council workbooks. So it handles phone numbers turned into science notation, cells with three values in them, shift notes typed by hand, and the all-caps banner rows that break other importers.

Schedule on a live grid

The grid shows every site by ward, every shift, and every person booked. It updates live. Three organizers can schedule at once and see each other's changes right away.

Conflicts surface the moment they happen

The grid flags shifts that overlap, sites too far apart to reach in time, bookings on days someone said they were busy, and the same person booked twice.

It warns you. It never blocks you, because election day needs judgment calls. Every override is saved with the name of who made it.

Gaps fill from ranked candidates

The gap panel lists every open shift. It ranks who to ask by who lives in the ward, who has worked that site before, who shows up, and who is free.

One tap books them. A switch widens the search to nearby wards when your own ward runs dry.

The report lands at 7am

The coverage report shows coverage by ward, open gaps, who missed yesterday, and the day ahead. During early voting and on election day, it emails the field director at 7am.

Any day, you can open it or save it as a PDF or a spreadsheet. See the 7am report.