 Hey, hi everybody. Welcome to today's session. We're going to get started in just a minute. But in the meantime, before we get started, I'm wondering if you all wouldn't mind just dropping a quick note in chat, letting us know where you're from. Either geographically or your organization, just be nice to know who's joining us today. Malay, Jacksonville, some really, lots of great Thailand, New York. Welcome. Ready? Hello, NorCal. Let's see, Montana. That's a great, great mix of folks today. Excellent. Thank you for adding this in. Hello Jennifer. Hello Tampa, Florida. Wonderful. Alright, so we're going to go ahead and just get started. Hello everybody and welcome to this edition of the public app house, where we will be focusing on the power of technology to enhance civic participation. Also a very warm welcome to our panelists today, who will be presenting in just a little bit. 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And also finally a quick reminder. You can turn on closed captioning today if you'd like to the CC button is located in your zoom menu. So, and final thing to remind you all don't forget to check your inbox after today's session we're going to email you a replay and slides and some related resources, following up on today's session. Welcome to TechSoup Global Network, especially for those of you who are new here. This is a lovely picture of the TechSoup team on a rooftop somewhere down near Forth and Brannon. At TechSoup, we believe that technology like smartphones, internet connectivity, tech-enabled programs all have the power to serve our communities better. And today's speaker with their tech for good apps are a fantastic representation of what that can mean. In today's presentation, we have three fantastic presenters. Dale McGrew, Executive Director of WeVote, Megan Brown, Senior Manager with Vote 411, and Deborah Cleaver, Founder and CEO of Vote America. Thank you all for being here today. I'm looking forward to seeing your demos. And then one more again reminder is that we will be sharing a replay and some additional information after the session. So, that's it. So, again, we'll be taking questions at the end of the session. And with that, let me hand it over to Dale. But first, a quick intro. Prior to running WeVote, Dale successfully co-founded, built and sold two high tech startups, gravity.com and golightly.com. Dale has managed large software projects for companies like Disney, IBM and Crayola, and over 60 nonprofits. And with that, let me hand it over to Dale to do today's presentation. Thank you, Catherine. And hello everyone. Let me try again. So, this is a typical ballot book. And it would take 15 hours to read it cover to cover. And then there's the political mailers. The sheer volume of information makes figuring out how to vote daunting and confusing. But even with an internet full of information, voters still feel uninformed. And the number of people who feel uninformed jumps from 44% to 76% when you ask voters who rarely vote. The impact of which is that over 20% of voters do not complete their ballot and other skip election day altogether. Representative democracy works best when more votes are cast. WeVote's mission is to help more Americans participate in democracy. And we've built an award-winning app that you can download from either App Store or use on your computer. We help you figure out how to vote your values with a little help from those you trust. We do the Herculean task of combining ballot data from all 50 states. Side by side with endorsements from local papers and organizations across the political spectrum, like the ACLU and the American Conservative Union. Here's how it works. So you confirm your zip code and select the issues and opinions that you trust. And these make up your personal filters. Using your filters, WeVote gives you a personal score for candidates and measures on your ballot. So if you care about what the local League of Women Voters thinks about an upcoming infrastructure bond, WeVote's got you covered. And if you care about what your friends think and want to see their private views, you've got you covered. As a scrapping-on-profit technology startup, with very little money put into marketing, we've still served over 115,000 voters. And our six-person analytics team tests and verify what works. And WeVote works. Over 38% of all visitors spend between three and 90 minutes learning on WeVote. And we're a community-driven project. WeVote's cutting-edge technology was built by over 100 wickedly talented open-source volunteers. We currently have over 60 active volunteers across 11 internal teams that meet weekly, healing from 22 different states. And these teams include our product design team, our marketing team, our political team, just as examples. Our vision is this. We see it tomorrow where every American's vote is aligned with their values. We think that giving voters all over America a way to engage with democracy in community will help increase voter turnout. So many things in life can be done better with the help of our friends and our communities. And we're obsessed with increasing voter turnout. We asked ourselves, or we asked ourselves, how do we turn these ideals into actions? So this is a good time to talk about the elephant, the room, which is the urgency that many Americans feel about upcoming and close elections. And regardless of which politicians you support, control of this country is being determined by these close elections. Close races are the new normal. And in 2022, a national U.S. Senate seat was decided by less than 8,000 votes out of over a million votes cast. So how do we turn this sense of urgency into positive actions? And here's how we're doing it. We're creating a scoreboard. This scoreboard will show the actions that get more Americans voting. The specific reasons that Americans, some Americans aren't voting, can become overcome if someone that they know and trust helps them. The voters tracking politics need better tools to engage the 40% of Americans in our communities who are just living their lives and not voting. We vote isn't striving to provide more or deeper information, like the League of Women Voters does so well. We vote is creating products and experiences that inspire and activate more Americans to participate in democracy using proven techniques like relational persuasion. So it's my pleasure to announce Democracy Squads, a new product that we're launching for the 2024 primaries. And these group experiences can be partisan or nonpartisan or partisan. You'll be able to create your very own squad and coordinate everything you and your friends are doing to help democracy thrive. Your squad is part of a bigger movement, driving to inspire and activate over a million voters. We vote will make visible the activity and successes of democracy's squads all over America. And you decide how comfortable with talking politics, your squad is, you can form a nonpartisan squad of parents at your kids school that focuses on the win, why and how of voting, or you can gather a highly partisan group of friends who are in it to win it. It's really up to this to each squad. If you want to be the first to see Democracy Squads, I encourage you to join our beta program by emailing us at info at we vote us or contact us through our website at we vote us. We're in an active design phase for our first publishable study. Please let me know if you'd like to get involved. And like I mentioned, we also have 11 internal volunteer teams that meet weekly, ranging from political data to social media to engineering. You can find the volunteer link in the footer of we vote of the we vote website if you want to learn more. So join us. I want to take a quick moment to thank some of the organizations who have helped us so much. We really couldn't do our work without all the support that they provide us as a nonprofit. And I thank you for your attention and to the to our hosts at TechSoup and to my fellow presenters who are just doing critical and inspiring work. So thank you. Thank you so much, Dale. Really appreciate hearing the updates. And a reminder to everyone who's on the call today, please don't hesitate to drop questions into Q&A. And we will be taking questions at the end of all three presentations. So thank you so much. Next up, Megan Brown. Megan is the senior manager with Vote 411 with the League of Women Voters. In this capacity, Megan manages and maintains Vote411.org, including updating election information in all 50 states and DC. And also helping hundreds of state and local leagues provide candidate information through the online voter guide and spreading the word about the website to ensure that voters know where to find election information when it comes to election day. Thank you, Megan, for joining us and please take it away. All right. Thank you, everybody. Let me share my screen. Of course, my PowerPoint got hidden. But there we go. All right. So thank you again. I am Megan Brown. I am the Vote411 senior manager. Vote411 is a product of the League of Women Voters. We are, so I work at the League of Women Voters, but my main role is Vote411. So what is Vote411? It is the League's election education website. We call it the one stop shop for election related information. It has everything voters need to know about voting and how to successfully cast their ballot in all 50 states and DC. And we're really excited to have this information also available in Spanish in all 50 states in DC. We launched our Spanish website in 2020. So anytime we update any of the English content, all of our Spanish content gets updated as well. So the voters have the information in the language they feel most comfortable with. And what does that information look like? We literally have everything voters need to know to successfully cast their ballot. But there are some key features that I really wanted to highlight today. And the first of which is our nationwide candidate information or our voters guides. And this is where we allow candidates to talk directly to the voters in their own words. So we are a volunteer organization and we have volunteers all across the country who contact candidates and ask them questions that are important to the voters in their communities. And those candidates answer those questions directly and unedited by the League and we publish those on Vote411. I believe that the candidates being able to speak directly to the voters in their own words is key to allowing voters the opportunity to see who these voters are or these candidates are and what they stand for and how well they would fit if they were to be elected for that office. It's a really great resource for voters. And it's a really fun interactive way that you can contact and interact with with the candidates directly. And I know that there's so much more that voters need to know before they can successfully cast their ballot. So Vote411 has polling place information in hours. We have the ability to register through Vote411 to request your absentee ballot. And then we have all of the what we call rules of the road, which are things like the ID requirements for either voting or registering or early voting options or absentee options. We have every single thing that you need to know to vote in your state because we all know all 50 states in DC have very different election rules. And so voters need to know the rules in their state so that they are able to successfully cast their ballots. So I'm not going to read all of these quotes, but I did want to share what voters have said about Vote411. Our ultimate goal is to empower voters so that they can go out and vote in each and every election cycle. And being able to do this work and then hear from the voters that we have impacted and help to vote is really inspiring. And so it's really great in my position that I actually get to hear from voters regularly about how we actually help them go vote. It's why we do what we do. It's really the turnout piece to really increase and make sure that everybody feels empowered to go cast their ballot in every single election cycle. A really interesting piece on Vote411 is that we can have address specific information. There is some state specific information like those rules of the road that, you know, apply to every single voter in that state. But then there is address specific information, things like your polling place. Your polling place is related to where you live. We can display your election day, your early voting and your Dropbox locations on Vote411 based on your address. We can also display your personalized candidate information that is only going to show your races and your candidates that appear on your specific ballot. This is really key because voters don't know what districts they live in. They may know what U.S. House District they live in, but what about city council or school board? And we take the guesswork out of that. You enter your address on Vote411 and then you see only the races and candidates that will be appearing on your ballot. You can go through and select the candidates, compare where they stand on the issues, and make your selections. You can say, I plan to choose for Jimmy being the dog in this race. And when you're done, you can email, text or print your choices so that you can bring them with you to the polls or if you're voting in absentee or by mail ballot. You can use that information to vote your ballot and it's going to go all the way through your own personalized information and takes the guesswork out of voting. And like I said earlier, we really do have a get out the vote or GeoTV component to Vote411. We do email folks through our registration tool if they opt into emails. In every federal cycle, we do research into if the people who register through Vote411 turned out. In every single federal cycle for the past few cycles, more people or people who registered through Vote411 turned out to vote at a higher rate than the regular voting populace. We attribute that in part to the GeoTV messaging that we send to those voters if they opt into our emails. But then we also have the ability to create your voting plan, making sure that you plan how and when you are going to vote before Election Day is key, and making sure that you actually can successfully cast your ballot. One of the steps in the Make Your Voting Plan is to share your plan with your friends and your family, just like Dale was talking about making this a social interaction actually will increase the turnout and the likelihood that you're going to go and vote. So now that I've talked about everything that Vote411 has in a very high level aspect, I did want to spend just a minute to go over a couple of partnership opportunities that we have for you and your organizations. The first one here is a co-branded Vote411 homepage where we have your company or organization's logo and brand colors on our Vote411 homepage. You get your own unique URL and it's a way for you to share all of the content that we have on Vote411 with your users, your members, your employees as a trusted resource. We have reached tens of millions of voters over the past few cycles, but we know that there's tens of millions of voters who have yet to learn about Vote411. And partnering with organizations such as yours is a great way to get the information that we've already created and compiled and are sharing in front of more voters. It's a really quick and easy process to get this set up. There is a fee associated to it. So if you're interested in this, just send me an email and I can walk you through your options and get you started. We can get you a page literally in a day. It's a really quick and easy process. But if you're not interested in that co-branded homepage, and there's other partnership opportunities, so you can share about Vote411. We love it when people link back to our resource and email communications from their websites, social media. You can follow us on social media. We have all of our channels. You can share the resources that we're sharing through those channels. We are a volunteer organization, so we have state and local leagues with people on the ground doing this work in person in their communities that you can partner with them. You can join your local league. You can become a member. You can be a volunteer and do some of the great work that we're doing on the ground. And then finally, I did have to throw in our candidate pressure campaign. So like I said, we're contacting candidates, asking them questions. And some candidates don't want to respond or they may not have time or they might miss our email. We have a really comprehensive candidate pressure campaign that has you, the voters living in their districts, contacting these candidates, asking them to answer our questions. I have all the information on how you can participate that in that on Vote411. There are sample emails, sample tweets, all the things that you need. And it's a really great way to participate kind of from the comfort of your own home and really help be civically engaged and get more candidate information out there to the voters. And with that, I'm going to turn this back and I look forward to answering all of your great questions. Thank you so much, Megan. That was fantastic. It was great to learn more about that program. And we have some great questions coming in. And I look forward to sharing those after the end of all the presentations. And now we're going to move to our final presentation for today. Welcome, Deborah Cleaver. Deborah has been working at the intersection of technology and democracy since 2004. She is a serial founder whose organizations include Vote America, Election Day.org, Vote.org, long distance voter and swing the state. And with that, let me hand it over to Deborah. Thank you very much. Take it away. Thank you so much for having me today. And I feel like what my bio actually should say is that I am responsible for helping to popularize those unsolicited text messages that you get in 2016. I realized that we could send text messages to unregistered voters and encourage them to register to vote. And I told everyone who I pitched for funding that this was a loophole and that it would be closed soon. And almost no one would fund me. And now it is an outrageously popular tactic. And I am very sorry for that. Everybody, but it did work really well in 2016 to get unregistered people to vote. So, hi, I'm Deborah. And I am going to share my presentation as soon as I can get it to work. So I'm Deborah. I'm with Vote America. And over the past few years, Vote America has, well, Vote America builds technology that makes it easier to vote. Because voting is harder in the United States than in any other nation with democratically elected leadership. So it's not that Americans need to be convinced to vote. It's that they need to be able to vote. And as we all know, there's 50 states, 50 sets of rules, and most government websites aren't exactly optimized for voters. So we joke internally and sometimes externally that Vote America does the government's job. And so the team is an even mix of voting experts and technology experts. And we focus a lot of our time and our energy on building embeddable widgets that help voters navigate needlessly complicated systems. Oops. So currently, we actually have more tools and on this slide we have a register tool which helps people register to vote. We have a verify tool that helps you check your registration status. We have an absentee ballot tool which helps people request their absentee ballots in all 50 states. The rules around voting by mail are constantly changing and just to make life really fun. A lot of the states change the form every year and they will reject your request if you're using last year's form instead of this year's form, even if the only difference to the forms is the date listed in the footer. We have a tool that we call locator which helps you find your polling place location your early voting center and your ballot drop boxes. We have a standalone reminder tools which just lets people opt into our email and SMS election reminders. Like other people on this call we have found that reminding people to vote increases turnout and we just rolled out a new tool last week where if you enter in your home address it will tell you upcoming elections that are tied to your address because there's always an election coming. It's not just the presidential elections. Another thing that we offer that we're particularly proud of is all of the information that's on our website is available via an API so that you can build an election center on your own website. We have about 100 pieces of data that we track and update regularly for each state, and this screenshot shows you an election center that credit karma built in 2020, which was really awesome to watch. They built it and then they helped about half a million people register and actually cast ballots in the 2020 election. The software is pretty easy we've taken a slightly different route than vote 411 so if you work with us instead of people coming to our website and seeing something co branded, they'll go to your website and the tools will be embedded on your website. It's as easy as embedding a YouTube video you just cut and paste two lines of code and then the tool appears on your website. And then so you know any action that someone can take on the vote America website. They can also take on your website. And then we have a customer portal which is updated hourly so you'll see the results quickly, and you'll get access to all of the data that your users enter into our widgets we both get access and anyone who goes through a tool that's powered by vote America is opted into email and SMS as well sorry email and SMS election reminders in perpetuity. So even if you stop being a vote America customer will make sure to remind your users when it's time to vote and we do federal elections statewide elections and next year we're planning on getting down to citywide elections for the 100 largest cities in America. A couple of things that make our tools awesome but I want to say that vote 411 schools and we both schools are also awesome is that we focused a lot on making them really easy to embed. And we spend a lot of time optimizing the user experience so as many people as possible get through the workflow. We also offer support for anyone who wants to do like advanced testing. So if you're running a B test on copying you are messaging it's, it's really easy to run that through our tools we support all the analytics systems the metapixel, Google pixel, keep pixels, anything like that. The tools were actually optimized for all devices. So they look great. And they load really really fast. And one thing that sets everyone on this call apart from some other people who build tools is that none of us are in this for profit there are surprisingly to me there are now a bunch of venture backed companies in this space that build voter mobilization tools, but everyone on this call is purpose driven profit driven so we're literally only charging money so that we can continue to support the work that we do and all of the money that Vote America makes from licensing our tools is used to fund vote America's non part of the partisan mobilization campaigns. We've also focused a lot on security over the past few years because there is a fair there are fair amount of nefarious actors, both domestically and internationally who like to interfere in US elections so our tools are stock to compliant and HIPAA compliant. And we pay for penetration testing which means we pay hackers to try to break our tools every year, which is expensive and fun but worth it. And then we're hosted on AWS, which means if our site is down so is the internet, and also protected by cloudflare which again just means that you can trust our tools with sensitive data, such as full names and date of birth. We also offer this is a little advanced but I think some of you will appreciate this code free integrations with a bunch of other platforms that you might use such as Action Network, MailChimp, Salesforce and HubSpot and even Google Sheets which means that you can sync the data that comes in your instance of our tools to the other tools that you use, which is really great for any other projects that you have going on. Here are some of the people that we've worked with over the years. You know, I should say that the size of the logo does not indicate anything other than the size of the logo that various people have sent us. We tend to work more with progressive organizations but there's no actual reason for that that just happens to be the people who reach out to us because we are a nonpartisan organization and if you are trying to increase voter turnout, then you are someone that we would like to work with. I probably should have started with this but if you'd like to give any of our tools a test drive, just go to demo.voteamerica.com and you can enter real data, junk data, whatever makes your heart sing. We don't save that data anywhere we erase it every night at midnight. And that is my last slide. Looking forward to the Q&A part of our webinar. Thank you so much Debra. Fantastic presentation again. Incredibly inspiring work that you all do. And we really appreciate your time coming here and sharing what you're doing with this group. And also a reminder to folks attending today, we will be sending out a replay from today's event along with some slides and any related resources that we talked about that you should be getting an email in the next few days or so. And now we are switching to the Q&A portion of today's event. I'm going to go ahead and just dive in. The first question comes from Sarah. And this is for all three folks. I believe the question is, what if we have our own civic engagement or legislator accountability app idea. I don't know who wants to jump in with that one first. Sorry, Dale. Okay, I can start. So we work with a number of different open source and civic tech organizations that are, you know, dealing with the same challenges we are, what's on the ballot data, you name it. So feel free to reach out if you'd like to, to me, I'm happy to answer questions. And so it's info at we vote us if you want to pop a note to me. It's really interesting what's going on out there and I'm a big fan of everybody collaborating. That was going to be my same answer as well. Collaboration is really key. There's no reason that we all need to reinvent the wheel because we're all out here like Deborah said we're in it to get turn out the vote get people voting. So feel free, I reach out. If you've got any ideas, we'll see what we can do. Thank you both. So the next one. This question is from David. And again it's for all presenters or a mix of them. Do you address voting across the civilized world, or just in the US. Do you work with other democracy organizations overseas like my society, democracy club or initiatives in Taiwan. So if you want to speak to vote for one one we are US specific. I feel like the US is made up of 51 different voting countries, because all of the states are very different so we are US specific we do have information for what are called overseas voters on vote for one one so that you can find how you vote if you are an American citizen who's living overseas. We do have that information available, but we do focus on us specifically. I have the same answer that Megan has which is that US democracy keeps us pretty busy. Although I have consulted on occasion with people outside of the US but vote America pretty specific to America. Currently. The same answer is Deborah and Megan we've talked to groups like my society to try to learn. And there's so many differences, just in the, in the mechanics. So we decided to focus on the US. Thank you all. Jonathan asks, and this is specific to vote for one one. Will public questions appear on vote for one one. There are questions so I'm assuming I could be this could go either way. So I'm going to answer both the way I'm interpreting it so we do have our volunteers who ask candidates questions that are about the issues in their community and those are published on vote for one one when our volunteers publish them. Another way I'm interpreting that is like ballot measures or constitutional amendments that are going to be on your ballot. And yes, those are also available on vote for one one. And oftentimes our volunteers do kind of the extra steps to write up what you know what a yes vote means and what a no vote means because oftentimes the ballot language is confusing and not always clear what a yes and no vote means. So additional information is also available on vote for one one for those ballot measures. And if there was a third option for what that question is, let me know and I can answer it a third way as well. Thank you Megan well you know if there any follow up comes up from that question but thank you. All right, let's see. I have a question from and also for for one for vote for one one. Does vote for one one have a configuration for phones. Yes. So, while we were launched in 2006 we have completely overhauled the website in the last couple of years, and the way that we did it was mobile first so we designed the website for mobile, and then expanded it to different screen sizes so everything on vote for one one is mobile friendly. It was created for mobile devices. Really, and yeah you can use it on any size screen. Thank you very much. Let's see. Another more broad question. I think for all three of you or how you, however you would like to jump in. What are your resources available in multiple languages. And we did have one specific question about whether some of the technologies available in French. So if all three of you can answer that that would be great. So the question I've been first to vote for one one is available in English and Spanish. We are looking at additional languages I will say that some of our candidate information is available in additional languages we have our friends from Texas who do it in Vietnamese and Chinese as well. So we do have the ability to have portions of our information in multiple languages. And it's basically running two websites, having it in two languages. So it takes a little bit of time to get those languages but I would love to have this information in as many languages as possible voting hard enough for English as a first language speakers, having the information in a language that voters prefer is really key to helping them kind of navigate the process so we don't have friends yet, but it would be amazing I would love to have additional languages. I have a disappointing answer which is that our information is currently only available in English and since everyone on this call probably runs or works for a nonprofit you know the reason it's hard to raise money to translate things and as Megan said it's the equivalent of having two or more websites. So we can't just translate it once every time we change something in English we would have to translate into other languages. So while we do have the resources internally to build the tech framework that would support multiple languages we don't have the people to translate but one day, one day we will get there with multiple languages fingers crossed. Absolutely and I want to echo Debra's comment that the fundraising space in this particular space is it's challenging it's more challenging than even other nonprofit spaces fundraising for election related projects. So yeah, the desire is fully there, we have people who speak multiple languages on our team and we're looking for opportunities but it's just such a heavy lift that we would love to do, and hope to do in the future. We vote also does have an iOS and an Android app. And we keep our website, we usually lead with changes on our website and then update within three to five months on our iOS and Android apps. Thank you all very much. And now another question actually for all three of you again. How do you measure the impact or success of your tech tools. Oh, I can, I can go first so if someone uses our tools we store their information in our database. And then after the elections we match people back to the voter file, because whether or not you vote is public record. So we actually consider ballots cast to be success. And we don't know how you vote but we do know if you vote. So we do. That's how we measure success we have a small data team and we have access to the national file. The answer is very similar as I said in the presentation tracking who uses our registration tool, because they are the ones we have their email and their identifiable information to make sure they turn out to vote. But we don't collect any other identifiable information for voters so one way that we measure success is how many users come to the website after each election cycle so every single cycle is different. We can compare to the most like election cycle, we can never compare, you know, 2020 to 2023 is they're very different cycles so we, we measure success on how many people are finding our resource and how long they're staying on on the page because then we can see you know, are they getting the information that they're looking for analytics are absolutely key, and also really fun to see how people are using the site, what what's working what's not working so I act what they're saying and, and, and I want to even do deeper and deeper analytics so so it's, it's a space that deserves a lot of attention for sure. Thank you very much. And now we have a question from Ron, who asks in a partnership with vote 411 or vote America, will you reach out to voters of the partner org if they are already reaching out through phone banking and texting. What does communication look like with partners. We reach out to everyone who's used one of our tools unless a partner specifically assess not to all of our information is like pure information, sorry, all of our text messages are informational only our best performing text messages just provide polling place location, generally our partners are talking more about issue advocacy and things like that so unless someone assess specifically to not communicate with their people we do generally over communicating won't decrease turnout but under communicating will and all of our partners have the resources to reach out so by default, we communicate and there been a handful of times that we've held back, based on partner request. And through our partnership co branded web page, we provide you as the partner with trainings we can have videos to talk to your members and talk about how you can use the resource how you can share the resource. But we don't communicate with any of your members or your community directly. And that's because like I just said, we don't collect any identifying information for the users. We don't save their address or any of that stuff so we will not be contacting any of your users. We do have a tool that can send out text messages that our state and local leagues use for text banking. And if that's something that you would be interested in, we could absolutely set something up and do partnership. We have had a couple of partners do text banking through their white lab it's called the white label the co branded homepage. So that is something we can do. But it's not an oddly we won't contact any of your users directly. Thank you. A question from Kimberly. If we get a page with your org, will we be able to track the number of people who have been registered or signed up. And I think that's for all three of you. Yes, 100%. If you have the co branded page you get a really fun report. It can be at any time I use I send it automatically after the general election. But we can give you those analytics at any time and you can see how many people are using the page where they're entering where they're exiting whatever demographic information is available through Google. So the analytics for has changed the demographic information that they share. So it's, it's really dependent on what's available through the analytics, but you get a good report and it's a really great way for you to see your impact right like that you have this page you want the people to find the resource and interact with the resource. Absolutely provide those analytics. I'm like Dale, I love analytics. I wish that's all I spend my time on because it's so much fun. And we want you guys have the same opportunity to see those numbers as well. Similar answer we have a customer dashboard where people can log in and it's updated hourly and it also includes tables of information. The interesting difference with us and vote for one one is we will let you download all of that person's information. And that if people are really interested in it will do matchbacks post election to see what percentage of the people who came in via your instance of the tools actually voted. So yeah, we all think we all like numbers on this call. Finally, and for the democracy squads we really focus on voters registered voters activated and then on the partisan side the candidates supported and dashboard is critical to it for sure. Yeah, because it's, you know, you can't win a game if you don't have a scoreboard. I love that line I think I'll be using it. Thank you, Dale. So we have another question from Margaret. And this one is following up on, I think information shared by Deborah during her presentation and it's for Dale and Megan. She says I heard Deborah's answer on this but curious to learn about election coverage federal state, local, how small for everyone for Dale and Megan. So that's a great question that I didn't even talk about. Vote for one one we provide the election dates for every single election in the country, no matter how big or small and I don't know if there are folks on here from South Carolina but I swear you have an election daily in South Carolina and we provide all those in registration deadlines for you are volunteers who work on our candidate information also cover down ballot. We really try to in at least the top 800 most popular cities provide the down ballot information so that you can see your entire ballot and candidate information. And we oftentimes have leaks filling in the gaps in in the smaller communities as well depending on their state. We really want to focus on those local elections there's so much information out there on presidential candidates and us house and all of those. But it's a school board and I just found out that there are cemetery trustees in Massachusetts like, there are so many local elections that people just don't know about we really try to cover as many as possible. My answer is that so the, there are five major organizations that are gathering what's on the ballot data, and it's really painstaking work, we try to work with all as many of them as we can we've had, you know, relationships and conversations with at least four of them. It's for us, it is more of a translating into the financial of how much of it, how much can we purchase. So, so it's I really my hats off to the people who are actually collecting it. And I, you know, vote for one one is right up there in terms of the top collectors of data so it's, it's really inspiring to see that. And also, interesting to see that, you know, with 7000 different potential sources of information like ranging from a state registrar to a county office to a city office. No, I don't like, if we put all of those five providers together, I'm not sure we would still even have more than 90% of what's on the ballot. That's a made up number out of my head but that's my guess. And I think that in the long run the more that we can do to work with those local election officials to convert their data to digital to the people collecting it can kind of aggregate it and get it out to all the apps providers, the better. Thank you all that was really, really helpful. Thank you for having me. You wanted to add that one I know that. Yeah, just a quick addition to that so I was specifically talking about when we send out election reminders, all of our applications work for every election. I think Megan's correct South Carolina seems to have one weekly, but all of the tools with the possible exception of the polling place locator do work for every election. And Dale we're reliant on other groups to get some of our data. And because they're frequent elections and because the information isn't always accessible. Our polling place locator tool doesn't always return information but if it doesn't it does refer you to this state directly and hopefully you can get it there. There are too many elections in this country and there are no standards for how election data is shared with the public so yeah there are probably five organizations in this country, including vote 411 that do the painstaking work of gathering all this local data and then sharing it generally in apis so that the rest of us can help share it with as many voters as possible. That is fantastic, by the way. And a follow up question on your responses from Jeffrey. Can you repeat the comments about local candidates. Would this include township supervisors, for example, and this is in reference to Pennsylvania. So for our information, yes, it does include township supervisors in specifically in Pennsylvania we do have good content in Pennsylvania. I don't know if you live in in Pittsburgh but there's like 16,000 candidates in Pittsburgh. As everyone was saying none of this information is digitized a lot of times we type directly from PDFs that are on county board of election websites so that we can import it into our tools but yes we try to cover 100% down ballot to include supervisors school board city councils, the cemetery trustees, water boards, all those that we are able to find and then contact the candidates to ask the question so yes we try to get all the down ballot information. Wonderful thank you for clarifying that. And we have, I believe, really time just for one more question. And this is for everyone. And it is from David. How do you explain different mathematical voting systems in different places as TV versus majority versus something anything else to make them clear to voters. On our ballot tool, we will at the very top tell you what type of voting option it is is it multi select if it is we tell you how many candidates you can vote for, and we won't kind of move you on to then automatically to the next page until you've selected your choices. If it's rank choice voting we allow you to make your selections and rank them, and then if it's single vote or winners take all we just say if you vote for one. So we make it really at the top of the page, and we designed it specifically in our new ballot that we launched earlier this year to be in a highlighting color to make it more visible, because it was something that people easily miss and you just assume that you can vote for one candidate, but there are so many races out there that are either ranked choice or multi select my local elections this year are ranked choice for the very first time, we voted for it, two years ago. And so I know there's a big educational piece on that and how to vote rank. So we give all the instructions there directly on the ballot, while the voters are using the resource so that they can really make their decisions and know how many to vote for or how many to rank. Just timing really quickly that user interface is critical. And yeah, vote for one one has done a great job on their on their ballot really seen it change over the years so we do a lot of iteration we use analytics and and we're so we haven't done a ton of like approval voting on their or the various, you know, proposals that are out there for for different ways of voting, or even support the deeper levels of ranked choice voting for example. We view ourselves as more of a social layer on top of what's on the ballot. And we're focusing on making it easy to share information across different items on the ballot, as opposed to it being a single. What am I doing by myself. I think we focus more. I know we focus more on the one to vote where to vote, and what to bring, and then trust that the jurisdictions and maybe shouldn't do this that have done things like past rank choice voting remember to budget to teach people how to actually use rank choice voting. But now you're making me realize that we might need to add another tool to our website where we can help people practice for these things. That is one of the roadblocks to voting that we haven't yet built a tool to help people clear. Excellent. Thank you all. Any other final comments on that last question. Otherwise, we're going to move to wrapping up today. Right. Great. So thank you again to our amazing speakers. Thank you for joining us today and sharing what you've been working on. It's all very inspiring. I know I learned a lot and it was fantastic hearing from you all. If you joined us today, please feel free to drop a line in chat about something maybe you learned today. We'd love to hear some feedback immediately if you can and hear what you're what inspired you what you learned about today that would be fantastic. And we'll go ahead and read some some notes out loud as they come through. Just another quick note if you are on the call today and you really liked what you saw. 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People are excited about using the app. Lots of kudos to the presenters for being willing to meet after the presentation today and also thank you for that. This is how we start to build impact. So it's wonderful to see all that. Those are the main themes I'm seeing here. So wonderful job everybody. Thank you so much and have a great rest of your day.