Hack The Vote

Hack to Help Hampton Roads
Fall 2015
Hackathon at DE

Transcript

1. HELLO! We are Alternate First Past the Post. 1 1
2. The Team • Chris B. • Corey O. • Frances C. • Galina T. • Joshua H. • Mark C. 2
3. “Change the world, know your candidate.” - Hack to Vote 3
4. Current Vision ▸ Based off user’s address, the app uses the Google Civic API to provide them the following information: ▹ their polling location ▹ when the user can vote (date and times) ▹ the different elections that are taking place currently ▪ who’s running for these elections and their contact info 4
5. 5,216,252 number of eligible voters in VA 27% admitted to paying no attention 39% admitted to not paying close attention 5 Source (2015)
6. New Potential Features 6 develop API for politician opinions showcase candidate contributions use social networks to filter politicians that share user’s views
7. Sponsors 7