Some polling districts have a large number of houses, some homes are very spread out, and some are set up in a way that is confusing; all of these can make for a difficult canvass for your volunteers. The Turf Cutter tool allows you to create tailored lists for your volunteers that target individuals by a specific location, rather than just by polling district.
The distributed canvassing tool allows you to allocate properties based on the location of the canvasser, but sometimes that is not convenient. If you want more control over who canvasses which houses then turf cutting is the solution.
The My Voters database is where you will find all registered voters for your constituency.
You can begin by creating a list from scratch or loading a saved list from a folder
From the My List page, click on the Cut Turf icon
On the Turf Cutter page, use the plus (+) symbol to zoom in and the minus (-) symbol to zoom out, or you can use the slider control for zooming
You can choose between map view, and satellite view using the little layered cube simple in the top right
The box above that let's you switch to full screen mode to give you more room to work
From the menu, select how you want to view households by selecting the images of People, Doors, or Both.
You can create up to 30 Turfs, or sets of voters, from one list.
If you want to undo your most recent action, click the Undo button.
You can erase all your work by clicking on the eraser.
To delete your current Turf, highlight it in the Legend box and click the Dustbin symbol. This will clear your highlighted Turf
From this tool, you can send your lists to the printer or send them to MiniVAN for canvassing. You can also edit the search behind your turfs by going to the folder it is saved in and editing the search criteria.