This century has seen an increasing assault on the Voting Rights Act, including the 2013 Shelby v Holder decision and subsequent attempts to move polls to make it harder for people of color to vote.
Strengthen our democracy by supporting local governments and voting rights groups with their missions in their communities
Bring academically developed prototypes to production level software for use by county election officials and voting rights groups
Our team comes from a very narrow band of society and are generally privileged.
The people we are primarily trying to serve look and live very differently than we do.
You, our partners, work in very different fields than we do. You have different incentives, considerations and constraints.
Therefore,
It would be downright rude of us to think that we have the solutions for people (our partners and our target beneficiaries) we know very little about.
We rely on the diversity of your team and the knowledge you have gained through your work to guide us.