Election Participation & Outreach | Voter Engagement Grows with GIS

Encourage voter participation in the election process by using GIS. Shifting the focus to geography fosters trust and enables a sense of collaboration among constituents. Help voters quickly find and get to early voting centers and polling places, see polling place wait times, and explore who the local candidates are. GIS helps answer the complex questions that depend on a voter's location during an election.

Capabilities of GIS for outreach

Self-servicing apps
Recruit election volunteers
Community engagement platform
Authoritative demographic datasets

Answer questions and improve voter turnout

Simplify election information and provide answers that add context and understanding to improve election participation. Host web map applications that focus on a voter's location and provide answers to common questions like where to vote, who the candidates are in a voter's area, and how to fill out a ballot.

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Recruit election volunteers

Leverage the enthusiasm of volunteers through engagement features in GIS. With a form-based web application, modernize how you recruit poll workers and streamline how that information is organized in your internal processes. Make the recruitment process mobile-friendly and ensure that it's easy for anyone to volunteer when and where they are needed most.

Assist voters 24/7

Extend your office hours and services without additional resources. With no prior GIS skill, configure a single website that organizes information that the public can easily find. Organize voting location web maps and how-to videos and answer frequently asked questions. Modernize how government delivers election resources to voters to help cast their ballots.

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Access neighborhood-level data

Get thousands of authoritative demographic datasets that you can plug into your existing work to better understand the households in an area of interest. With neighborhood-level insight, develop strategies to turn the less engaged patterns of the past toward greater participation in the future.

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ArcGIS Solutions: Election Management

The Election Management solution delivers a set of capabilities that help election officials report wait times, request assistance, and more.

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Best practices in election administration

The director of elections for the Durham County Board of Elections discusses the use of GIS in recent elections.

USER STORY

Increasing election participation with ArcGIS Hub

Three jurisdictions use ArcGIS Hub to shift their focus to location when voters have questions.

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CASE STUDY

Record Midterm Election Turnout for Collin County

Collin County received nearly 90,000-page views on its Election Polling Place Locator web page and generated over 110,000 routes to polling places.

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Products for election outreach

ArcGIS Hub

This easy-to-configure community engagement platform organizes people, data, and tools through information-driven initiatives.

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ArcGIS StoryMaps

ArcGIS StoryMaps helps you tell remarkable stories with custom maps that inform and inspire.

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ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World

This collection of geographic information from around the globe includes maps, apps, and data layers to support your work.

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ArcGIS Solutions for Election Outreach

The Election Outreach solution delivers a set of preconfigured web maps that help you share critical election information to voters.

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