Hey folks,
If you’re interested in using your tech skills to get involved in the upcoming election, we’ve made the Election Tech Handbook, a crowdsourced project to bring together all the useful tools, data and resources you’ll need.
Some current highlights:
• Democracy Club has made an election timetable generator: put in your expected election date and it gives you all the other critical dates (voter registration deadline, candidate announcement, etc).
• WhoTargetsMe is tracking who is spending what on political facebook ads each day; follow via their twitter feed and help out by installing their browser extension.
• Jon Worth’s amazing Brexit Flowcharts help cut through all the constitutional complexity.
Do please take a look and add anything that might be useful to people, even if it’s your own commercial product, or something you’ve heard of that you didn’t make yourself: https://electiontechhandbook.uk
Also, if you happen to be London based, we’re hosting a meetup tomorrow night at Newspeak House on everything to do with technology and elections. It’ll be some short lightning talks, followed by networking: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/election-tech-meetup-tickets-71643568843
Edward Saperia
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