Crowdsourcing Ballot Initiative Voters’ Guides: Living Voters’ Guides

A new platform — called Living Voters’ Guides – for crowdsourcing the development of voters’ guides that inform voters about referenda and other ballot initiatives, has been launched by a team including:

• CityClub of Seattle;
• The Design, Use, Build group @ the University of Washington, including Professor Dr. Alan Borning; Travis Kriplean, creator of the Reflect eParticipation system; and Jonathan Morgan;
• The Center for Communication and Civic Engagement @ the University of Washington, including Professor Dr. Lance Bennett and Deen Freelon; and
• Reinspire Me LLC.

The project is funded in part by the National Science Foundation.

Click here for Professor Dr. David Domke’s post about the platform.

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