[mission9]

First, track contacts with the voter. Each record will have a list of all:
Email contacts, Phone contacts, Mail contacts

Candidate preferences (local, state, national) , issue preferences (local, state, national)

Information update preferences, email newsletter automation, important date reminders, auto fax list, auto dial list or opt out.

Prompts for the precinct manager for any future contacts or voting needs, i. e. absentee ballot, transportation. Your javascript protocols should be transparent and accepted standards for easy importing into other data bases.

[IronJack]

Do you want the candidate preferences to be free-format, or something like a list of check boxes?

It sounds to me like you could darned near use just a spreadsheet.

Are you going to want to pull ad hoc queries? Are you really just looking for an interface to a database?