Rally’s national voter file includes district level information for matched voters at the state, county, congressional, state senate, and state legislative levels.

Admins can target actions at contacts who live within particular districts. In this article, we walk you through how to do that.

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Step 1: Select Geographies of Interest

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From the content page, click on “+ Add geographies of interest,” select the corresponding State, District Type, and District you would like to be able to target actions to. When finished, click on “+ Add District.” When you are finished adding districts click on “Continue.”

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You can edit or add additional districts at any time from the Content page.

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Step 2: Target an Action Item

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Once you have set your geographies of interest, you’re ready to implement district-based targeting. Create a new Action Item or edit an existing one. (Check out Action Items: An Overview for help getting started with Action Items). To target an Action Item based on the specific district(s) contacts are registered to vote in, select the geographies you wish to target from the dropdown under “Contact’s Location,” then click “Save.”

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If you set criteria both for contacts’ districts and key question responses, your action will only show up for contacts who meet both sets of criteria.

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If you want to have an action that is targeted at people within a certain district OR people with a certain key question response, you can do that by making two separate actions and targeting them to your desired district and Key Question response, respectively.

Here are a few use cases for how your program can incorporate district-based targeting: