Ready, Set, Vote! is a tool that allows voters to get the information they need about the various candidates running for office so that they can make an informed decision.
This project is a rewrite of the existing production application, with a focus on using modern, reusable, and most importantly extensibility. We want this site to be able to serve any municipality, not just Seattle. To do this, we need to create a more generic web application with the tools necessary to deploy the application for any municipality interested in using it.
Ready, Set, Vote! is a project of the Municipal League.
- React (created with react-scripts-ts) - Main UI library
Mobx - To provide a data store to React- React Hooks (
useReducer) replacing Mobx as the data store
- Express - Server side routing
- Google Cloud Platform
/- Landing page, allows for language selection/address- Gets the user's address to find their ballot/ballot- The actual ballot; the main piece of the site/email- Allows the user to email themselves their completed ballot/guide- Share or print your results
/admin- Admin area of the site/admin/districts- Maintain the list of voting districts which you can later assign to Measures and Seats/admin/seats- Maintain the list of Seats to which you can later assign Candidates/admin/candidates- Maintain the list of Candidates running for office/admin/measures- Maintain the list of Measures/admin/endorsers- Maintain the list of Publications and other third-party Endorsers/admin/endorsements/{id}- Maintain the list of Endorsements for each Endorser/admin/emails- Generate a spreadsheet containing emails and demographic info for download
- node / npm (if not already installed): https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm
- Join us as a volunteer! On DemocracyLab, click the "Contact Project" button in the upper-right. Enter a message requesting access to Slack and Github. Include your email address and GitHub username in the message.
- Once you have access, the volunteer Slack is readysetvote2.slack.com
- Postman for crafting REST requests and inspecting responses