from Ed Saperia / Newspeak House:
Hey all, we at Newspeak House have produced the Election Tech Handbook , a doc with all the tools, data and resources you might need if you’re thinking of making anything related to the upcoming election. Some highlights:
• Democracy Club has made an election timetable generator : put in your expected election date and it gives you all the other critical dates (voter registration deadline, candidate announcement, etc).
• WhoTargetsMe is tracking who is spending what on political facebook ads each day ; follow via their twitter feed and help out by installing their browser extension.
• Jon Worth’s amazing Brexit Flowcharts help cut through all the constitutional complexity .
The handbook is crowdsourced and we’re promoting it widely, so please add anything you know about that might be useful , even if it’s your own commercial product, or something that you didn’t make yourself but you think is noteworthy: https://electiontechhandbook.uk
We’re hosting a meetup tomorrow night on technology and elections. It’ll be some short lightning talks, followed by networking: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/election-tech-meetup-tickets-71643568843
Ed @nwspk