10 Tips on Building Apps That Can Impact Voter Turnout on Election Day
If Facebook apps can inspire people to buy/give virtual gifts and even try on random hair styles, can a web app get someone out to vote in a local election? I believe it can, and if this year’s turnout proves anything, it’s that there’s a great opportunity for developers, designers, and campaigns to innovate with apps.
Charles Lenchner and NYC’s Working Families Party bootstrapped and designed “Candidate Finder.” Proving that simple can be sexy, a voter can input her street address and zip code, data magic happens, and she can share, download, print the list of candidates WFP supports in her district and get directions to her polling place.
