Does absolutely nothing
Can’t even login or creat an account on iPad. Their method of authentication doesn’t allow you to use the keyboard. Whomp whomp your app is worthless.
Much better than paper
I’ve been canvassing with miniVAN for a few months now, and the benefits far outweigh my complaints. Being able to see all the houses you’re going to along with your own location is so much easier than trying to follow a paper list of addresses (which I’d end up finding on my phone’s map anyway!) My only complaints are that results imputed from paper packets don’t appear on the app, and that sometimes the gps will show the icon for the address at a completely different location from where it actually is (I was walking “park ave.” and it showed some of the houses as being across the city on “park st.” and I didn’t realize the mistake until I had already driven across the city to get the rogue houses -_-). Still, better than paper!
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Error message
Download the app but it a error message
MiniVAN is not syncing properly
When using MiniVAN and two people are doing the same region it does not sync properly. One phone will sync properly and everything on the other phone will totally disappear. This is become a significant problem and covering territory. Please look into what is going on with the app. Yes I have updated the app.
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Buggy, But Lots of Potential
I’m a field director in NC, and I manage large groups of people for boots on the ground campaigns across the state. The platform is well designed, but often poorly executed. For example, when sending turf maps there is an option to send to multiple canvassers. We have two parallel campaigns, and they function very differently. The problem is, even when selecting our second campaign, it only ever sends the first one. This means instead of sending turf to 90+ people in groups of ten or more, we are sending it s l o w l y, one at a time. This turns a one person, few minutes task into a multiple person, half hour task, especially with how unresponsive the site can be. This is not the only broken/buggy feature on the platform, but it is one of the most egregious tine wasters: especially if someone isn’t aware it doesn’t work, and mistakenly sends turf this way, unintentionally sabotaging a day of work for the entire office.
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Won’t sync data with other canvassers
Overall, we have found this app to be helpful and less bulky than carrying around paper lists. The biggest problem is that no matter what we do, we cannot get this app to sync with other users. After a couple hours of canvassing and refreshing the sink several times per hour, we still can’t tell where the other canvassers have been as shown in the instructional video. It did work one day out of about 200, so we know it is possible, but we have never been able to duplicate that before or since. We end up having to spend an extra 20 minutes going through our individual lists with one another and manually adding them to our own phones. Super inconvenient.
The other problem with this app is that the map feature seems to be based on Apple Maps, which as everyone knows, is terrible. It rarely shows an accurate picture of where an address physically is. Google maps is much better in that regard.
The other problem with this app is that the map feature seems to be based on Apple Maps, which as everyone knows, is terrible. It rarely shows an accurate picture of where an address physically is. Google maps is much better in that regard.
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Not for small town candidates
Very confusing to use. If you’re a small town campaign manager, just get an atlas and a voter list from your county courthouse.
Stuck on training video
When I open the app it goes to a training video then gets stuck there, no way to get past or go back. Please fix I need this app.
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Version 8.2.1 Eliminated the answer button
At an organizing meeting about to canvas. Others who have earlier versions have buttons to record voter answers. Mine doesn’t give me check buttons. Not sure if this is a local script creator issue or something with your latest update. Please troubleshoot please and thank you!
