What is Turbovote?
TurboVote is basically Netflix for elections. Here’s how it works: • Voters sign up at TurboVote.org. TurboVote then sends a completed vote-from-home application to the voter. It comes with a postage-paid and pre-addressed envelope, so it just needs to be signed and droped in the mailbox. • The local election board receives the application and sends voters their ballot. • TurboVote emails users what’s going to be on the ballot and sends text message reminders about election dates and other important deadlines. Who is Democracy Works? Democracy Works is Seth Flaxman, Kathryn Peters, and Amanda Kassel Craft – we’re graduate students with previous experience in elections, information management, and philanthropy, and we believe that simplifying elections can allow voters to spend more time thinking about how to use their vote rather than how to vote. For the last year, together with the development expertise of Paul Schreiber and communications support of Charley Johnson, we’ve worked tir
