About OurVoteLive.org

Our Vote Live is a custom site developed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation ("EFF") that facilitates the documentation, sorting, and organization of election-related problems and inquiries reported by ordinary voters to the Election Protection Coalition via the toll free voter-assistance hotline 866-OUR-VOTE. Our Vote Live uses a suite of custom-developed code — collectively called "Total Election Awareness" (or "TEA") — that EFF developed to help ensure that (1) the Election Protection Coalition could rapidly and efficiently assist voters in real-time, and (2) that the general public could monitor the health of the electoral system during the 2008 presidential election.

Open Data

The Our Vote Live data is available in two formats for your own projects or web applications:

• RSS Feeds: The RSS icon in the upper-righthand corner of the Search Records page links to an RSS feed of whichever subset of the Our Vote Live data is currently listed.
• A Comma-Separated Variable Download: The "Download CSV" link on the Search Records page links to a CSV file of whichever subset of the Our Vote Live data is currently listed.

To protect voters' privacy, this data is anonymized. If you are a journalist interested in contacting the voters listed on this site, please use the Press Contact listed below.

Open Source

In the interest of assisting with future election protection efforts worldwide, the source-code for Total Election Awareness is available for general use under the GNU General Public License v3.

Our Vote Live was built by:

• Project Lead: Matt Zimmerman
• Project Manager: Tim Jones
• Lead Developer: Rich Orris, Strange Bird Labs
• UI Development: Chris Contolini
• Systems Administration: Greg Sutter
• Google Maps Programmer: Mike Geary
• Development: Katina Bishop and Alyssa Ralston
• Consulting: Joe Hall
• Additional Tech Consulting: Peter Eckersley

Special thanks to:

• The Verified Voting Foundation and former Verified Voting Foundation Executive Director Will Doherty for spearheading the groundbreaking Election Incident Reporting System ("EIRS") for use during the 2004 presidential election. TEA and the Our Vote Live project are direct descendants of the excellent EIRS work pioneered by the Verified Voting Foundation.
• Current Verified Voting Foundation President Pam Smith for providing all-around support as well as Verified Voting Foundation contributors John McCarthy, Sean Flaherty, and Edward Piou for providing critical voting equipment information that was used in the Our Vote Live system.
• Catalist, LLC, and Google, Inc., for providing critical technical assistance and expertise.
• Jonah Goldman, Eric Marshall, David Becker, Tanya Clay-House, Michele Lawrence Jawando, Warren Stewart, and Becky Bond for providing valuable feedback throughout the development project.
• The Tides Election Administration Fund Board and The Quixote Foundation for their generous contributions which helped make this project possible.