The Center for Civid Design applies design thinking to how elections invite participation in the democratic process. They support election officials in making materials and processes clear, easy, and effective by researching the needs of voters for access, information, and opportunity to vote.
Strategy: Voter-Centric Election Administration
National Conference of State Legislatures
This grant will support the National Conference of State Legislatures’ Elections and Redistricting Program as it endeavors to grow and improve its elections administration programming and provide the best possible service to its members and their staffs.
Democracy Works Inc.
TurboVote, Sunlight, and ELECTricity will work together to develop a template of easy-to use election websites and pilot those sites in 5 states.
Rock the Vote
Organizational grant for Rock the Vote over 2 years.
Common Cause Education Fund
Common Cause Education Fund is one of the major institutions supporting democratic reform in the United States. They work in election administration and campaign finance, with strong state chapters that emphasize building local, bipartisan coalitions for reform.
FairVote
Fair Vote and BPC will examine state houses who had to adapt to unusual power-sharing structures to understand how agreement can be reached in such cases.
Open Source Election Technology Foundation
The Open Source Election Technology Foundation (OSET) works to increase confidence in elections by innovating election and voting systems using an open-source, adaptable, flexible, full-featured election technology framework.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The MIT Election Data and Science Lab (MEDSL) facilitates election data collection and sharing through web-based tools and datasets. The lab will create systems for sharing findings, allowing for the development of a network of scholars in the Election Science field.
Democracy Works Inc.
Democracy Works and their subdivision of TurboVote explores low-cost ways to increase civic engagement and voting through new civic technology and improving processes and data. Their aim is to make voting easier through use of technology and support for elections administrators and voters.
US Vote Foundation
The End-to-End Verifiable Internet Voting Specification and Feasibility Assessment Study will examine a form of remote voting that enables a so-called “end-to-end verifiability” (E2E) property. A unique team of experts in computer science, usability, and auditing together with a selection of local election officials from key counties around the U.S. will assemble for this study.