Community Action Team

Virginia votes every year, and specific districts have additional special elections at odd times throughout the year as needed to fill vacant seats.  When reaching out to people about voting during Get Out the Vote events, we typically ask, "Have you voted yet in the upcoming election?"  The most common response to this question by far is, "What election?"  Fewer than one fourth of visitors to a 2025 Special Election voting information table in Fairfax County in Fall 2025 were aware of a special election for U.S. House of Representatives in their district. Once a voter becomes aware of an election that is outside of the 4 year Presidential cycle in November, the next step is finding out who is on their ballot and where and when to cast that ballot.  The current system requires numerous clicks to search each of those pieces of information.  It is time consuming and confusing and has the impact of discouraging the low-information voter.   For these reasons, we propose a nonpartisan website that supports a search by address which provides all of these pieces of information--not more links to go searching-- on a single page.  A voter should be able to find all of the information on a single page so that they know where to vote, when to vote, what to bring, who the candidates are, what the referenda are, as well as links to learn more about the candidates and referenda so that they can inform themselves about the impact of the decision they're going to make on their ballot.