Inspiration
The 2004 elections saw unprecedented increase in minority voter turnout, resulting one of the most diverse in the elections we've ever seen. To demonstrate--- 2004, the voter participation gap between White & African-American voters was 6.9%, but in 2008 it was only 0.9%.
Voter turnout in 2020 is expected to reach the highest levels seen in decades. But as more people understand the importance, rapidly increasing voter suppression efforts—particularly against historically marginalized groups.
These initiatives threaten to stifle the voices of would-be voters by keeping them from reaching the polls. Over 30 states introduced voter suppression legislation in 2011: 16 states passed such measures.
What it does
Vote With Me directly counteracts voter suppressing initiatives across the US by letting Facebook users activate their networks to get friends and families to the polls by
- actively signing up voters
- notify them of important deadlines
- sharing links to register through Vote With Me
- sharing their voter registration status
How we built it
- Messenger SDK
- Spark AR
Challenges we ran into
- Learning to build a chatbot
- Learning to work with Spark
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- Learning to build a chatbot
- Learning to work with Spark
What we learned
What's next for Vote With Me
Built With
- facebook-chat
- sparkar
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