I had a niche in voter registration, and wrote frontend code and server processes that helped tens of millions of people register to vote in the US.
Worked on tools for Rock the Vote, vote.org, HelloVote (the first sms voter reg chatbot), and VoteAmerica. It’s a surprisingly tricky problem on the backend, with state specific rules and lots of smaller jurisdictions (most election officials are at the county level). Developed methods to extract a user signature from a photo and include in the generated pdf, so people wouldn’t have to print, sign, and mail the document, and we could do everything digitally.
In 2014 went to Libya to help there after the revolution (but before the civil war), and worked on a team that was helping build tools for that new democracy. They haven’t had another national election since, which goes to show that sometimes politics are more complicated than technology…
Worked on tools for Rock the Vote, vote.org, HelloVote (the first sms voter reg chatbot), and VoteAmerica. It’s a surprisingly tricky problem on the backend, with state specific rules and lots of smaller jurisdictions (most election officials are at the county level). Developed methods to extract a user signature from a photo and include in the generated pdf, so people wouldn’t have to print, sign, and mail the document, and we could do everything digitally.
In 2014 went to Libya to help there after the revolution (but before the civil war), and worked on a team that was helping build tools for that new democracy. They haven’t had another national election since, which goes to show that sometimes politics are more complicated than technology…