CiviVoter and Canvasser released ...

Rob Thorne from Torenware networks just announced the release of CiviVoter and Canvasser on the CiviCRM Mailing list (link to e-mail ). The Green Party of Canada sponsored this work and has released it under the Academic Free License v3.0. This is a pretty important component for political parties and we'd like to get a fair amount of feedback and review from the community. A future version of this component will be included in CiviCRM. From the email message:

• CiviVoter is a new sub-system for CiviCRM. Its purpose is to manage a voter file for you (the kind you get from the your county registrar of voters, or your national elections authority). Since CiviCRM is a rich and rapidly improving system for managing contacts, a lot of what you'd want to do with a voter file is already a part of CiviCRM. CiviVoter adds tools for running phone banks (for calling voters) or foot canvasses (going door to door and meeting voters face to face).
• Canvasser is a Drupal module for running phone banks and foot canvasses. It uses CiviVoter to manage the voter file, but uses Drupal modules like Events, CCK or Location to help manage volunteers, and to add additional UI.

If this is applicable to your work, please consider test driving it at the demo site. Feedback and Reviews are more than welcome on the civicrm-dev mailing list.