The project is designed to deliver information to voters about upcoming elections provided by the Google Civic API.
Information provided includes:
- Upcoming elections
- Polling locations
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- Detailed information about:
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- Primary Elections
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- General Elections
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- Referendums Elections
Also includes links to official external sites which allow user to:
- Register to vote
- Find state's local election office
Additional feature(s):
- LCD-styled Countdown clock w/ customizable deadline
Planned soon:
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Google map to show coordinates of provided address (and possibly choose address)
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US District maps created by geocode coordinates
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Modifications to be more friendly to SSR
Possible changes:
- A different election info provider such as Open States (Google Civic API leaves a lot to be desired)
Technical:
- API interface parses query params to custom js using googleapis package to query Google API using
electionQuery()
andvoterInfoQuery()
methods, which return standard objects.
This is a Next.js project bootstrapped with create-next-app
.
First, run the development server:
npm run dev
# or
yarn dev
Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.
You can start editing the page by modifying pages/index.js
. The page auto-updates as you edit the file.
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