With more and more people using Smartphones, there’s a powerful new app that can let them use their Smartphones to navigate through the voting process. Key partners of our Campus Election Engagement Project, like Rock the Vote and the Lawyers Committee on Civil Rights, have been working on it for close to two years. It’s downloadable for free for both iPhones and Androids. It’s a great tool to help people surmount the electoral barriers using the technologies they most rely on, and one of the most useful tools for our project in companion with our Six Key Ways checklist. So we hope you’ll promote it to any networks you’re part of.
The app allows users to:
- Verify their registration and register to vote (in states without online registration they’ll need to physically mail a form that will be emailed to them);
- Look up their polling place;
- Review key voting rules and regulations for their state;
- See what type of machine they will vote on;
- Receive notifications of late breaking news affecting voting in their area; and
- Contact Election Protection via phone or email to report a problem or get answers to their questions.
