Walk lists
The walk list is the turf. Someone still has to walk it.
A walk list is the ordered set of doors a canvasser knocks in one shift: names, addresses, and a route that does not cross itself. Campaigns obsess over cutting them well, and then lose the Saturday anyway because the person assigned to the list never made the launch. Both halves matter. This page covers both.
What makes a walk list good
A workable list is 40 to 60 doors for a two-hour shift, geographically tight, ordered so the canvasser walks one side of the street up and the other side back. It targets by the campaign's plan: supporters for GOTV, persuadables for the September push, new registrants where the race turns on turnout. Turf cutting itself lives in the voter-file tools, and if your race has party-stack access, that is the right place to cut it. Capstone Volunteer reads spreadsheet exports from that stack, so the same volunteers those tools know about are schedulable on the grid.
Print two copies per turf, because phones die at 4pm. Stage the lists by launch site the night before, matched to the shift assignments, so the 10am launch is handing out packets instead of sorting them.
The half the walk list cannot do
A walk list with no canvasser is a stack of paper. The staffing half is a shift scheduling job: the launch is a location, the canvass block is a shift, and the assignment pairs a specific volunteer with a specific turf at a specific hour. In Capstone Volunteer the fill panel ranks candidates by who lives in the ward, so the person walking the list knows the blocks on it, and the 7am report on Saturday shows which turfs have a name against them and which are about to go unwalked.
After the launch, attendance goes back into the system. The canvasser who finished two turfs gets remembered by the fill panel in October, and the one who never showed gets remembered too. Over a season that record is the difference between guessing at your election day staffing and knowing it. The full pattern is in the canvass scheduling guide.