Mobilewalla monitored swing state polling locations in real-time for campaign teams
Anindya Datta · 766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections · Aug 29, 2017 · at 24:26
Anindya Datta, CEO of Mobilewalla, describes to Nathan Latka how the company deployed real-time mobile location telemetry at polling places during the US election to assist campaign get-out-the-vote operations.
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“What we did for this particular party, who spent way less on, feet on the street than the other party, we were monitoring every polling booth, every polling location in a certain number of states, And we were telling the ground team who showed up to vote and who hadn't yet.”
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