About the project
A nonprofit civic-information platform for voter literacy.
Ballot Clarity is designed to make public election information easier to inspect without making the interface feel like a campaign, a news feed, or a partisan advocacy product.
Mission
The mission is to improve voter literacy by turning scattered public records into readable, source-backed guides. The intended user should be able to move from “Who is on my ballot?” to “What is actually documented here?” without reading dozens of disconnected PDFs.
Why voter literacy matters
Elections include complex offices, dense measures, and candidates with uneven public records. Many voters want context, but not hype. A clear public-interest interface can reduce confusion without telling people what conclusion to draw.
Why public data is hard to use today
Public information is often distributed across filing portals, meeting minutes, clerk notices, ethics forms, and campaign materials. That creates a usability problem long before it becomes an analysis problem.
How this product helps
Ballot Clarity organizes contests by office, attaches sources directly to summaries, and surfaces limits and uncertainty in the same place users read the information. The goal is clarity, not persuasion.
Volunteer or contact
Ballot Clarity is still an MVP concept. Researchers, civic technologists, designers, and election-information volunteers are welcome to get in touch.