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Welcome to Poll City

A 5-minute orientation to running a Canadian municipal campaign with Poll City.

First week checklist

The 12 things every new campaign should do in their first week on Poll City.

Understanding support levels

How to classify voters and why support levels drive everything from GOTV to walk lists.

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🚀 Getting Started

Welcome to Poll City

A 5-minute orientation to running a Canadian municipal campaign with Poll City.

First week checklist

The 12 things every new campaign should do in their first week on Poll City.

Keyboard shortcuts

Navigate Poll City without touching the mouse.

Finding and quoting a print shop

Browse verified print vendors, filter by province and product type, and send a quote request directly from the directory.

2 min readBeginnerAsk Adoni

Adoni — your campaign AI assistant

What Adoni can do for you, what limits are in place, and how to get the most out of every conversation.

Using voice input and file upload with Adoni

Speak to Adoni instead of typing, and upload CSVs to bulk-add volunteers — no keyboard required.

AI Assist — the Adoni Command Centre

A dedicated workspace for deep campaign strategy sessions with Adoni — with category shortcuts, voice, file upload, and your full campaign context loaded.

👥 Contacts & CRM

Understanding support levels

How to classify voters and why support levels drive everything from GOTV to walk lists.

Merging duplicate contacts

What to do when the same person appears in your database twice.

📥 Import / Export

Smart Import availability

Upload an authorized campaign file, review the proposed changes, and safely create or enrich campaign records.

Which export should I use?

Seven specialized exports for different campaign tasks.

🚪 Canvassing & Turf

Building canvassing turfs

Split your ward into manageable walk areas for volunteers.

Using the mobile Walk app

Field canvassing with offline sync, GPS, and quick data capture.

Building canvassing scripts with branch logic

Write a conversation tree for your canvassers — so every door goes the right direction no matter what the voter says.

Using the weather widget for canvassing days

See live weather and a 3-day forecast right on your Field Ops dashboard so you can plan walks before you deploy your team.

🗺️ Ontario Map

Building turfs on the Ontario Map

Use Quick Cut for instant turf splits or Manual Mode to hand-pick streets — then assign directly to volunteers from your campaign roster.

Ontario Map overview

What the Ontario Map shows, how to navigate it, and what every layer means.

📋 Forms & Analytics

Creating forms and collecting responses

Build custom forms for volunteer signups, event RSVPs, issue surveys, and door-hanger reply cards.

Reading your form results and analytics

Every form has a live results dashboard — submission trends, distribution charts, and full response table.

🗳️ GOTV

How GOTV scores are calculated

Understand the math behind GOTV scoring and how to use it on election day.

🔔 Notifications

Sending push notifications

Reach opted-in supporters on election day with one click.

Contact fatigue guard — how Poll City protects your voters

Poll City automatically skips anyone contacted in the last 24 hours when you send an email or SMS blast, so you never spam the same person twice in one day.

🪧 Signs

Managing lawn sign requests

Track sign requests, installs, and inventory.

Sign field ops — logging actions and viewing history

Every sign install, removal, damage report, and repair gets logged with GPS and a timestamp. View the full event timeline for any sign.

💰 Donations

Ontario-compliant donation tracking

Capture every donation with the fields required by Ontario election finance law.

🔐 Team & Permissions

Team roles and permissions

What each role can do in Poll City and how to assign the right role.

🛡️ Privacy & Security

How anonymous polling works

Poll City uses SHA-256 hashing to guarantee voter anonymity. Here's how.

✅ Tasks & Accountability

Tasks — your campaign accountability board

Tasks is not a to-do list. It is a full campaign accountability engine with categories, kanban board, resolution tracking, and an Adoni follow-up loop.

Task health stats and urgency escalation

The stats bar shows overdue and urgent counts at a glance, and overdue tasks get a pulsing flame so nothing slips through.

🏦 Finance & Funding

Funding sources — tracking money by source

Create a funding source for each pool of money your campaign uses — donations, grants, personal contributions — and track every credit and debit against it.

Vouchers — rewarding volunteers and tracking redemptions

Create vouchers for volunteer recognition — coffee, campaign merch, event tickets — and track when they're redeemed and by whom.