VoteRemote

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  VoteRemote Logo and Cover Image

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  Home Page with interactive state map

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  Information on voting by mail fraud and etc

Inspiration

With the election only a month away, getting out the vote is on everyone's minds. We know that this election will have lasting effects, and want to make sure that everyone gets a chance to exercise their vote.

However, many voters are scared to vote in person and fear shouldn't keep them from exercising their rights. To combat this, we envisioned a website with up-to-date mail in voting information for every state, and additional resources to support that movement.

What it does

The VoteRemote website directs visitors to state-specific voting information, encourages them to vote by mail, and provides information resources on vote by mail. It also encourages young people to sign up as poll workers, since this is usually done by the elderly population, many of whom are at risk for coronavirus. We consider it a social responsibility project because it increases access of all groups to their right to vote and decreases the social inequality that is unfortunately present in our voting system.

How we built it

We wrote the front end from scratch using HTML and CSS, and designed the backend using the python web framework Django

Challenges we ran into

It was Maxwell's first time using Django, so it was a challenge for him to learn the software in a single day and implement it effectively. Additionally, both Nicole and Maxwell had never built a complete website from the ground up before, so it was a learning process when it came to connecting the front and back end.

What's next for VoteRemote

VoteRemote hopes to continue to work on improving the user's experience and to make their website available to the public as soon as possible.

Built With

• css
• django
• html