Lay of the 'LAN'
Want to know if your neighbor voted in the last general election? You can use this tool to look up a single record in the LAN.
What is Quick Look Up (QLU)?
There are 30,000 text messages to send. If each volunteer has committed to sending out around 1,500 text messages you’ll need this many volunteers at your shift.
What is 20?
You might ride in one to get to your turf but this is the name of the app your volunteers will use to canvass after you have cut the turf in LAN.
What is MiniVAN?
Targeting is the efficient allocation of this, people, and money to maximize a desired outcome.
What is time?
GOTV
What is get out the vote?
In Create a New List, fields for 2026:Catalist:VotePropensity, Catalist:VCI, and Catalist: Gen Activist are in this section.
What is Scores?
We need GOTV postcards to go out to 750 members in a battleground congressional district. Each volunteer has committed to sending out 75 postcards. Each postcard kit costs $7.02 to send out so you’ll need to pay this much at the post office to send out all the kits.
What is $70.20
If you are looking for your activists to spring into political action, you can use this tool that helps you manage sign-ups online - it will even send out confirmation emails/texts for you.
What is Mobilize?
Geo-"this" allows us to do digital ads to a specific location.
What is fencing?
VPB
What is Virtual Phone Bank
When trying to chat with a member during a phone bank mark them as this in the canvass dispositions if they are not willing to talk to you.
What is refused?
Saturday is the big rally and you are expecting 200 attendees. Attendees were promised one of the super cool AFTvotes 2026. You are ordering 200 t-shirts and 30% are large which gives you this many large shirts.
What is 60?
You can only auto-dial these types of phone numbers without a human intervention.
What are landlines?
When having an organizing conversation you will use this step to create righteous indignation.
What is agitation?
BUZZER QUESTION!
LAN
What is Labor Action Network?
There is a lot of data in LAN but these are the two main data sources that provide the base file you can use for your voter contact program.
What is the membership file (from AFT or the affiliate) and the voter file (from data vendor Catalist)?
BUZZER QUESTION
Marcia would like to get calls through a list of 2,000 phone numbers expecting each of her 10 volunteer to call 200 numbers for the shift. If half her scheduled volunteers end up cancelling and half her confirmed volunteers end up as no shows, she’ll need this many scheduled volunteers.
What is 40?
This AFT recommended dialer tool can dial 100's of numbers per hour if you have enough volunteer logged in for the phone bank.
What is Scale to Win?
When overcoming objections, remember "AARF": This, Answer, Redirect to issues, Frame a choice
Affirm/Acknowledge
VBM
What is Vote by Mail?
BUZZER QUESTION
The AFL-CIO collects our AFT file this many times a year for the membership updates in LAN.
What is six?
Stephanie has 11 canvassing teams coming in on Saturday for the first canvass shift and 23 for the second shift. She is expecting that they will hit 45 doors per team so she’ll need at least this many total doors in her packets.
What is 1,530?
In order for your volunteers to access the Virtual Phone Bank they will need two codes - the VPB Code and this that you can find in the LAN.
What is the Daily Access Code?
This is the new tool that AFT has brought on as an all in one stop to help you check your voter registration status and link you up to get registered or register to receive a vote by mail ballot. It will even show endorsements!
What is TurboVote?
BUZZER QUESTION!
COPE
What is Committee on Political Education?