Introduction to Election Outreach

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.

Deploy the solution

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

Election Outreach requires the following:

• ArcGIS Online
• 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
2.0 (Apr 2022)	Updated Promoting Transparent Elections to embed the My Elected Representative app. Updated My Elected Representative, Election Polling Places and Voting Centers to use ArcGIS Instant Apps. Updated Voting Centers and Election Data Management to include ballot drop boxes. Updated ElectionGeography schema to support additional early voting patterns.
1.0 (Nov 2020)	First release of Election Outreach Reference documentation for this release