The RNC Hopes This App Will Keep Campaigns From Going All In With the Koch Brothers

A new software product to be unveiled Tuesday by the Republican National Committee’s chief technology officer presents an entire toolkit for helping campaigns manage their field operations—from automated reports measuring the relative effectiveness of individual volunteers to fraud-detection tools methods for detecting who among them might be lying about on how many doors they knocked.

The product, Republic VX, has one major feature that will go unadvertised to the general public but will likely be particularly appealing to the RNC members who gather in Cleveland later this week for their summer meeting. Republic VX is designed in such a way that should make the campaigns using it reliant on the RNC’s voter file rather than one offered by i360, a rival data warehouse that is part of a parallel infrastructure developed by Charles and David Koch.