BallotReady
It Should Be Easy to Vote, and Vote Informed
Abstract
Currently, most voters enter the voting booth confident in their choices for president or senator and unprepared for the rest of their ballot. As a result, voters guess, leave blanks, or stay home from elections altogether. Real democracy requires informed votes. That’s why we founded BallotReady, an online nonpartisan voter guide to every race and referendum on the ballot. By providing accessible information on candidates, ballot measures, and how to vote all in one place, our aim is to radically boost vote quality and voter turnout at all levels. Last fall, we were live in 12 states, with information on 15,000 candidates and over one million visits to our website. Now we’re preparing to scale nationwide by November 2018, all the way down the ballot.
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