WeVote

WeVote is a nonprofit technology startup that builds voting technology, chiefly a digital voter guide designed to help voters understand what is on their ballots and make informed, values-aligned decisions, with input from friends and people they trust. The organisation is run by a team that is 100% volunteer-powered, and everything it builds is released as open source. Its work sits at the intersection of mobile app development, open source software and civic technology.

Its main products are a Digital Voter Guide and the WeVote Mobile App, which delivers the full voting experience, including the voter guide functionality. The stated aim is a complete voting experience of about eight minutes, including downloading the app, in order to serve busy, distracted modern voters. The organisation operates as two fully nonpartisan nonprofit entities, a 501(c)(3) and a 501(c)(4), and states that it has no political agenda; its stated premise is that broader access to reliable information benefits everyone.

WeVote is based in Oakland, California. Its stated mission is strengthening democracy, and its technical work spans mobile app development, open source software and civic technology within the elections and voting sector.