Increase the amount of information available through the U.S. Vote Civic Data Application Programming Interface (API), including state voter requirements, election dates and deadlines, and voting methods. This will increase Rock the Vote access to information for their users.
Program Area: Elections and Voting
The Campaign Legal Center, Inc.
The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that defends and protects our nation’s democracy in the areas of campaign finance and voting rights.
Internet Archive
The Political TV Ad Archive provides a searchable, viewable, and shareable online archive of 2016 political TV ads, with fact-checking and reporting citizens can trust. The project is open source and available on Github.
The Campaign Legal Center, Inc.
The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is forming a Litigation Strategy Council (LSC), which is comprised of a small group of the country’s best and most experienced constitutional litigators to collaborate on and lead the development of a pragmatic and winning strategy to transform campaign finance jurisprudence in the courts.
Issue One
To provide general support to Issue One as they continue to broaden the coalition of leaders, supporters and ideas in an effort to find meaningful opportunities to educate the public on problems and solutions to the influence of money on politics.
The Council of State Governments
This grant will provide support to the Council of State Governments (“CSG”) to establish a national working group on elections cybersecurity issues with plans to convene in 2018, as well as partnering on CSG’s upcoming Cybersecurity and Privacy Policy Academy.
National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
The purpose of this grant is to support the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, Homeland Security & Public Safety Division, in their efforts to expand the participation of state executives in the dialogue around election security. The primary way this will occur is through the execution of a year-long cybersecurity policy academy with a cohort of five to seven states.
Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
To support Chicago Lawyers’ Committee’s work on the evaluation of the Automatic Voter Registration implementation process in Illinois and allow the Lawyers’ Committee to expand state and local stakeholder awareness of the best practices and challenges associated with the implementation.
National Disability Rights Network, Inc.
To allow NDRN the capacity to educate election officials, advocates, and the public on the need to provide access to voting functions for voters with disabilities and to build tools to improve polling place accessibility.
The Campaign Finance Institute
The Campaign Finance Institute serves to provide balanced, thoughtful policy analysis related to solving some of the challenges associate with money in our political system.