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Voting Information Project Aaron Strauss  1023 31st Street, NW  5th Floor  Washington, DC 20007 ph 202-625-0370  fx 202-625-0371.

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1 Voting Information Project Aaron Strauss  astrauss@mellmangroup.com 1023 31st Street, NW  5th Floor  Washington, DC 20007 ph 202-625-0370  fx 202-625-0371  www.mellmangroup.com

2 VIP’s Mission: Ubiquitous, Personalized Voter Guides Our Mission Every Voter has a personalized voter guide: Polling Place Information, Voting Options, Ballot Information On Secretary of States’ Website and everywhere else: candidate sites, non-profits, etc. Open Format. Open Data. Official Source. What We Don’t Do Individual-Level Data: no personal information. System is address-based.

3 So How Does This All Work? User’s Address APIGadgetFeed Polling Place Ballot L.E.O. State } Street Segments Precinct (Split) Polling LocationDistricts Contests Candidates 100 349 Both 504781 508413 RIVERBEND DR CHARLOTTESVILLE VA

4 Success Story: The 2008 Presidential Election Focus on “Mapplet” 10 States adopted VIP (plus some CA counties) Easy URL: maps.google.com/vote Lots of publicity (e.g., NY Times blog, Today show) Tons of users: 7-10% of American electorate

5 Success Story: 2009 Virginia Election Lots of Gadgets!

6 Redundancy Is Good…

7 Looking Toward The Future More States Build Off Previous Successes Meet needs of states/data providers More Applications Federal/State Write-In Absentee Ballots (FWAB/SWAB). Compliance with MOVE ACT. iPhone and other mobile apps. (Data/API are open.) Whatever developers can dream up!


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