Deepak Puri

Chatbots help Texas voters find their closest voting center by text or a phone call.

Looking for the closest Voting Center in Texas? Call or text this friendly chatbot.

Vote centers are an alternative to traditional, neighborhood-based precincts. Voters can cast their ballots at any vote center in the jurisdiction, regardless of their address. – NCSL Many voters don’t know how Vote Centers work and have difficulty finding the closest one which creates long lines. Reclaim Our Vote’s new chatbot let’s voters call or …

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Use crowdsourcing to collect information on early voting and drop box locations to make it easier for people to vote.

Florida early voting locations map. How to crowdsource information to help more people vote.

Information on when and where to vote improves voter turnout, but often hard to find. Organizers crowdsource early voting and dropbox locations and freely share them through maps and mobile apps. Collecting information from multiple sources provided in different formats is challenging. But many hands make light work. That’s the premise of crowdsourcing which uses …

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Maintain eye contact in your ZOOM presentations with the onscreen BigStage Teleprompter.

Communicate better on ZOOM. Keep eye contact with an on-screen teleprompter.

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Make sure that your speech is up, easily accessible, and legible while you are live on zoom by using the Teleprompter App.

You’ve moved? Hand guide explains how to make sure you can still vote.

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“Did you move this year? Do you plan to vote in the November election? If you answered yes to both of those questions, you need to complete your voter registration change-of-address. Voter registration is handled at the state level, not the federal level. That means if you moved to a new state, you need to change your …

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Fun events and easy to use maps to encourage early voting.

Hot dogs, music and early voting

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Turning out early voters in Indiana Vanderburgh County, Indiana has approximately 60,000 voters. The county has the third largest city in Indiana, Evansville with a large urban population relative to the outskirts of the County. There are more Democrats in the County than Republicans but the differences isn’t huge in a relatively conservative region of …

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Youth group launches multi-lingual, interactive video campaign on BigStage to get-out-the-vote

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Young Asian Americans for Biden-Harris use multi-lingual, interactive, and translative zoom features to get out the vote.

Suppression on the Reservation makes it harder for Native Americans to vote

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Denying postal services to suppress Native American votes It’s despicable when Americans are prevented from voting by groups creating barriers to voting and then penalizing voters for not being able to overcome those barriers. That’s a Catch-22. Catch-22 traps Native American voters Joseph Heller coined the term in is his novel Catch-22 to refer to a …

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