A three-tier precinct prioritization for the 2026 Santa Clara County District Attorney race. Built to help a county-level candidate campaign decide where field, mail, and digital spend each have the highest marginal return — and where the universe can be left alone.
Every precinct in Santa Clara County was scored on a combination of turnout history, partisan composition, and prior performance of comparable down-ballot county races. The scoring produced a continuous priority value that was then bucketed into three operational tiers a field director can actually use.
T1 · Priority precincts are where the campaign's expected vote share is highest and turnout is reliable — the universe where door knocks and direct mail compound most efficiently. T2 · Persuadable precincts have meaningful candidate movement available but require persuasion, not just turnout. T3 · Monitor precincts are tracked but not actively contacted — either because turnout is too low to move the race, or because the partisan composition makes the spend unproductive.
The deliverable is the interactive map above (for strategy conversations) plus a PDI-ready precinct file (for the field and mail vendors). The same approach scales from county DA races to congressional and statewide primaries.
Most precinct tier analyses take 1–2 weeks. We start with a 20-minute scoping call to figure out the universe, the deliverable, and whether VoterForce is the right tool for what you're trying to do.
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