Election Outreach can be used to educate the public and help voters find an appropriate voting center or Election Day polling place.
State and local governments strive to improve voter participation through open communication and a sense of collaboration. Elections departments look for ways to increase voter turnout and engage constituents, but are faced with changing behaviors of citizens who seem disconnected from the democratic process. Helping voters locate where they can vote and understand voting options removes voter confusion. Communicating wait times to voters reduces congestion at polling places or voting centers and increases participation by helping voters decide when they want to cast their ballot on Election Day. Election Outreach is typically implemented by clerks, election commissions, or secretary of state offices that want to inform voters and increase participation in the elections.
The Election Outreach solution delivers a set of capabilities that help you share information about current elected representatives with the public, get voters to an appropriate voting center or Election Day polling place, and communicate voting wait times.
Deploy the solution
This solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.
See Deploying a solution for more information.
Requirements
Election Outreach requires the following:
- ArcGIS Enterprise
- ArcGIS Pro 2.9 or later
Information products
Election Outreach includes the following information products:
| Item | Description | Minimum user type |
|---|---|---|
| Promoting Transparent Elections | An ArcGIS Hub site used by the general public to access election information | Not required |
| My Elected Representative | A Zone Lookup app used by the general public to determine who represents them in local, state, and federal elected offices | Not required |
| Election Polling Places | A Zone Lookup app used by voters to locate a polling place where ballots can be cast on Election Day | Not required |
| Voting Centers | A Nearby app used by voters to locate voting centers and official ballot drop boxes | Not required |
| Election Data Management | An ArcGIS Pro project used by mapping technicians to inventory and maintain electoral districts, precincts, voting centers, and polling places | Professional |
When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get a solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.
Release notes
The following are the release notes:
| Version | Description |
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| 2.0 |
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| 1.0 |
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