In Barack Obama's article "How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change" posted yesterday, a major takeaway is that in order to make real change (and help end systemic racism), we MUST drastically improve voter turnout in local and state elections.

How can we as a community of technologists help? Or is technology not even close to the bottleneck here?

There are certainly resources out there for finding information about local elections:

https://www.usa.gov/midterm-state-and-local-elections https://www.vote411.org/

An idea: given a central data source of upcoming local elections, create targeted, non-partisan ads on social media platforms to simply surface elections times and information about candidates.

Would love to hear if anyone else is thinking about this, and if we could do better than ads as a long-term solution. Stay safe!