Hi LibTech! EveryVote.org is an open-source, non-profit, global democracy facilitation platform crowd-sourcing development now.
For a short video introduction to EveryVote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGl6kt39jw4 Primary features envisioned for the platform include: 1) Users can vote for or against any official, candidate, user, group, or legislation on the site 2) Elections page automatically lists the candidates of all elections --federal, state, county, local, etc-- the logged in user is eligible to vote in 3) Election and registration deadline reminders to help prepare users for election day 4) Users can learn *at a glance* (simplified to a total + or -%) how the officials, candidates, users and groups they support or oppose are voting on every bill in their legislative body 5) A democratic social news system (like reddit's) that allows users to see which stories are most popular to supporters and opposers of a person, group, or bill 6) Ability for users to facilitate the legislative and electoral process of their own organization using EveryVote Our short-range goal is to have the site at least testable in advance of the United States 2012 federal elections in November, but our long-range goal is for the EveryVote platform to work with any government or organization that has legislative and electoral data available online. For more information, here is a .pdf walkthrough of the EveryVote design documents as of 06/21/12: http://tiny.cc/i3ibgw Any questions, feedback, advice, or offers to help would be much appreciated and can be sent to [email protected]. Many thanks, The EV Development Team
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