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News Revenue Hub's downloadable guide walks newsrooms through the planning and audience research necessary to create a strong voter guide that's optimized to reach as many people as possible.
Get nonpartisan voter guides, created by veteran journalists and drawing on multiple sources, in both English and Spanish for 70 key elections nationwide, from the presidential race on down.
This nationwide dataset sourced from election officials, available through CTCL's API as well as Google's Civic Information API, includes federal, state and local candidates, as well as their party affiliation, the office they're seeking, contact information, websites and social media handles.
Use this Wordpress plugin to create dynamic candidate profiles for voter guides and other civic journalism.
This site provides a way for voters in all 50 states to register to vote or check their registration. Vote 411 also has sample ballots and sometimes candidate questionnaires for state and local races.
ElectUp is a platform for creating election guides that automatically gathers, organizes, and presents candidate comparisons. Because it was developed in local newsrooms, it fits smoothly into editorial workflows and has been refined to resonate with audience needs. NOTE: Space is limited, priority deadline is early September. Sign up now!
Ballotpedia will provide access to structured data about elections, candidates, and ballot measures in the state(s) your newsroom covers.
CTCL's Local Office Function Index mines state code and local charters to summarize the specific responsibilities of federal, state and local elected officials.
These free location-based tools that can be embedded on a website to let users look up information like polling place and ballot information by address.
This guide from Election SOS makes the case for incorporating easy-to-understand icons in voter guides, and includes best practices and resources for doing so.
This nationwide dataset of federal, state and local elected officials, available in XML and tab-delimited .txt files, includes officials' names, offices, party affiliation, contact information, websites and social media handles.
People want more information about the judges on their ballot, and this guide produced by the Journalist's Resource and America Amplified lays out eight steps newsrooms can take to create local and state judicial election guides for their audience.
This five-day email course walks journalists through how to build a voter guide, including user experience and designing an accountability roadmap.