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Invite by criteria

Match likely-voter facets among people who already registered. No phone lists. Personal invites only.

Region
USNHSuburban
Party / lean
DemocratRepublicanOther
Age · race · gender
18–3940–6465+ WhiteBlackHispanic MenWomen
Topics followed
ElectionsImmigrationEconomy
Targets

Minimum completed responses 400

Expected completion rate 55%

Initial draw size 730 hashes

Draw is a uniform random sample of matching hashes, then stratified to gender/age/race cells when a cell would otherwise be empty.

PULSEPolls · Civic Pulse Institute

Random selection of participants

Pool 2,184 matching hashes in NH. Drew 730. Contact never shown — workers send on the person’s opted-in channel.

Draw
730 of 2,184

Seed 2026-09-07T13:00Z · uniform without replacement

CellPoolDrawn
Women 40–64 suburban412138
Men 40–64 suburban388130
Women 18–39301101
Men 18–3927492
65+ (all)809269
Dispatch (personal invite)
ChannelCountPolicy
SMS210TCPA + prior consent
Signal146Share / in-app only
WhatsApp98Session / template
NATS pulse.u.{hash}188nkey allow-list
Apple / Android88Opt-in push
PULSEPolls · Civic Pulse Institute

Meet the minimum — add participants

Target 400 completes. 268 in. Shortfall 132. Top-up draws more hashes from the leftover pool, still random, still no spam.

Completes
268 / 400

Invited 730 · opened 411 · submitted 268 · rate 37%

Need ~240 more invites at this rate to clear 400.

Top-up draw

Leftover matching hashes: 1,454

Proposed add: 240 (random, exclude already invited)

Channel mix follows each person’s consent.

Soft cells (will be oversampled if still short)
CellCompletesNeed (n≥30)Action
Black · NH1130Top-up this cell first
Hispanic · 18–391930Watch
Women 65+4130Met
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Reporting

Sort and filter by date, area, and topic. Hide cells with n < 30. Visibility is org-only until the org promotes the ladder.

Filters
Sep 2026Aug 2026 NHUS All topicsElectionsEconomy
Completes
268 likely voters

Margin ±3.1 pts · 2D mean agree +2.4 · importance +4.1

Traffic lights (top/bottom 3)
PickShare
Agree46%
Neutral21%
Disagree33%
2D sample — election cheating
Disagree Agree
Crosstab — prevent election cheating (agree %)
CellnAgreeNeutralDisagree
Total268541828
Men129581626
Women139512029
18–3971442432
40–64112561628
65+85611425
Republican98721018
Democrat86312247
Other / undeclared84522226
Black · NH11Hidden · n < 30
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Visibility — one-way ladder

Org may promote. It may not step back. Hide-after-public is a takedown request, not a downgrade.

Now
Org only

Members of Civic Pulse Institute.

Next

Invited reviewers → embargoed press → public.