The New Organizing Institute's Vote Everywhere initiative will provide accurate polling location information for all 50 states plus DC. For free. For everyone.

Polling locations will be standardized and available in numerous forms: via lookup tools such as Google, via political data tools such as VAN and Catalist, or in a simple spreadsheet. Anyone can make use of this data including campaigns, labor unions, advocacy groups, web developers, researchers and, of course, voters.

Polling Location Data is Hard to Come By

In 2008, 1.9 million votes were lost because voters did not know where to vote. Young voters under 30 were nearly twice as likely to have difficulty finding out where to vote. African Americans and Hispanics were three times as likely to have difficulty finding out where to vote.

It's no wonder - polling location data in the United States is kept in literally thousands of different formats, controlled by election officials in over 8,000 different local election jurisdictions, and changed at the last minute with little or no notice.

NOI Has the Expertise to Tackle the Biggest Challenges in Political Data

The NOI team includes senior data leadership from the Obama presidential campaign, programmers, and researchers who are among the most experienced practitioners in politics.

The team now working at NOI includes some of our best data leaders from the campaign and has an incredible opportunity to build on what we learned and establish the first real solution to making accurate voting and polling location information available to everyone, everywhere.Michael Slaby - Chief Technology Officer, Obama for America 2008

This nationwide strategy promises to tear down one more needless barrier between voters and the ballot box. Because NOI is uniquely capable of solving the vexing problem of polling location reliability, this is another big challenge we'll chalk up as "solved" in 2010.Mark Sullivan - Founder, Voter Activation Network

Knowing where to vote is one of the most basic pieces of information for American voters - and for too many citizens, one of the harder pieces to come by. Official polling locations are often not available online, and other sources may conflict or be outdated. With Vote Everywhere, the New Organizing Institute promises to finally remove this unnecessary barrier, demonstrating the profound democratic possibilities of offering ready and accurate access to the basic information we desperately need.Justin Levitt - Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice