Introduction to Election Outreach

Election Outreach can be used to educate the public and help voters find an appropriate voting center or polling place.

Helping voters locate where they can vote and understand voting options removes voter confusion. And 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.

State and local governments strive to improve voter participation through open communication and a sense of collaboration. While elections officials are continuously looking for ways to engage constituents and increase voter turnout, they are faced with changing citizen behavior and disengagement from the democratic process. Understanding where voters are in relation to the things that matter most to them reveals the true nature of the election process and is the foundation of democratic elections.

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

Information products

Election Outreach includes the following information products:

Item	Description	Minimum user type
My Elected Officials	An ArcGIS Instant Apps app used by the general public to determine who represents them in local, state, and federal elected offices	Not required
Election Polling Places	An ArcGIS Instant Apps app used by voters to locate a polling place where ballots can be cast on Election Day	Not required
Voting Centers	An ArcGIS Instant Apps used by voters to locate voting centers and official ballot drop boxes	Not required
Election Data Management	An ArcGIS Instant Apps app 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
3.0 (Mar 2026)	The Election Geography feature layer has been updated. The My Elected Officials app has been updated. The My Elected Representative app has been removed. The Promoting Transparent Elections ArcGIS Hub site has been removed.
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