About 20,000 Mitt Romney campaign volunteers will be monitoring voter turnout on Election Day using a smartphone or tablet app, according to a new report.

The app serves two functions:

Volunteers can first use it to check-in Republican voters as they cast their vote. That data will be sent in real-time to headquarters, which can compare it to voter rolls to see which Republicans in a given area have voted. Those that haven't voted early in the day will be subject to a barrage of phone calls making sure they cast their vote. This get-out-the-vote practice is decades old but the use of a smartphone to transmit live data is a relatively recent innovation.

The app will also assist…
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