Voting Information Project Roadtrip! | The New Organizing Institute Education Fund

Recently, Anthea Watson, VIP Project Manager, and I hit the road to discuss the Voting Information Project with election officials in six states throughout the Northeast. The objective of this trip, and trips that we will continue to take for the next several months, was to persuade states to create and export XML feeds of voting information (e.g. polling locations, which candidates are on the ballot, how to register) to help us create an official, dynamic, and standardized dataset of voting information. In creating such a dataset, we hope to empower innovators across the country to develop awesome tools and help push that information out to voters (something that we saw throughout the 2010 Midterm Election Cycle).

http://neworganizing.com/2011/02/11/voting-information-project-roadtrip/

The Voting Information Project (VIP) is at http://votinginfoproject.org/. They are partnering with election boards, campaign managers, user experience architects, graphic designers, and application developers to better serve voters.