#CivicSunday - #CivicCelerator's #Hawaii Power Ballot App
source: civic.celerator.org
Civic*Celerator--a joint project from Common Cause Hawaii and Hawaii Open Data with funding from Voqal--was in the news last week highlighting two of their apps utilizing Hawaii Campaign Spending Commission data; one focusing on campaign fundraising and the other on campaign spending. Now Civic*Celerator is working on an ambitious app from Citizen Developer and mapping guru, Royce Jones; the Hawaii Power Ballot.
Royce introduced his idea for the Hawaii Power Ballot last month at a Civic*Celerator workshop. The basic goal of the app is to provide relevant candidate information to voters in a quick and simple way. He is leveraging some tools that he already built and combining them with candidate data researched by volunteers to build an app to help voters make better-informed decisions.
Once completed, voters will be able to simply type in their address (or click on their home from a map) and find out their voting location and receive a sample ballot with links to the candidate's information and online presence. Future iterations will be able to pull in data from other Civic*Celerator apps to provide a more complete view of the candidate.
source: github.com/codeforhawaii
This effort is being spearheaded by Royce, and fellow CitizenDev, Jason Axelson on Github. Feel free to fork the project and help contribute.
To help research candidates and enter data please email: [email protected]
I'm awed by the resourcefulness of our citizens who build tools that empower all of us.