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PLEASE VOTE

A project with certain urgency

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Home Page

Voter Info

A returned object from Florida

A returned object from Washington State

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
    • Detailed information about:
    • Primary Elections
    • General Elections
    • 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:

  • Google map to show coordinates of provided address (and possibly choose address)

  • US District maps created by geocode coordinates

  • 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() and voterInfoQuery() methods, which return standard objects.

NextJS boilerplate:

This is a Next.js project bootstrapped with create-next-app.

Getting Started

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.

Learn More

To learn more about Next.js, take a look at the following resources:

You can check out the Next.js GitHub repository - your feedback and contributions are welcome!

Deploy on Vercel

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Check out our Next.js deployment documentation for more details.

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