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Steve Jurvetson is a venture capitalist who supports the left-of-center Audacious Project, 1 which he has called a “bold adventure in social philanthropy.”
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John Lindback is a co-founder and former executive director 1 of the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) voter-registration monitoring system.
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VoteShield is an analytics tool that uses statistics, machine learning, 1 and data visualization
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ElectionIntegrityCaucus.us is a left-of-center election activist group based in Petaluma, California. 1 It supports the proposed For the People Act, which would federalize U.S. election administration
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Kim Barton is the supervisor of elections for Alachua County, Florida. 1 Barton is associated with several state and national associations, including the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a left-leaning organization best known
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Ricky Hatch is the county clerk and auditor of Weber County, Utah. After the 2020 election, Hatch dismissed former President Donald Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud and compared those who promote such claims with believers in the flat earth conspiracy theory. He is a member of a working
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Sureel Sheth is a mergers, acquisitions, and major investor advisor for technology companies. He is a general partner with JMI Equity, a venture capital and business advising firm with offices in the Washington, D.C. area and California. He also sits on the board of directors of the Center for
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Clarity Campaign Labs (CCL) is a for-profit data analytics and polling company that serves Democratic clients. As of January 2023, FiveThirtyEight gave Clarity Campaign Labs a “B/C” rating using data from 2012 to 2018s. FiveThirtyEight found that publicly released CCL polling tended to favor Democrats in its predictions compared
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Cristina Sinclaire is a career left-of-center activist working as a partner at Democratic-aligned polling firm Clarity Campaign Labs who also sits on the board of the Center for Tech and Civic Life. Career After graduating from the University of San Francisco in 2006 with degrees in sociology and criminology,
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Whitney Quesenbery is the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Civic Design and a user experience (UX) professional. She has advocated for reforming American voting systems to improve UX design and improve accessibility, particularly for less-educated voters. Career After earning a bachelor’s degree in English literature from a
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Joanna Francescut is the Assistant County Clerk and Registrar of Voters for Shasta County, California. 1 Francescut
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Maribeth Witzel-Behl is the City Clerk of Madison, Wisconsin, and a member of the advisory committee of the left-of-center election administration group Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL).
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Maurice Turner is a member of the advisory board of the left-of-center election administration group Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL). Until November 2022, Turner was a public policy manager at social media company Meta, parent company of Facebook.
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The Hasso Platner Institute of Design at Stanford University, also known as the d.School, is an academic school within Stanford University centered around “design thinking” that conducts engineering and design projects in technology, consumer goods, business processes, and more. The school was founded in 2004 by mechanical engineering professors at
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Galaxy Gives is the New York City-based private grantmaking foundation of the Novogratz family. The foundation makes the bulk of its grants towards organizations that work in left-of-center criminal justice policy. The foundation was founded in 2017 to push for an end to cash bail in New York City, which
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Institute for Responsive Government (IRG) is a policy think tank that purports to seek to improve government effectiveness and correct bureaucratic inefficiency. It is a fiscally-sponsored project of New Venture Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit managed by consulting company Arabella Advisors that makes grants to left-of-center organizations.
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Tim Tsujii is the director of elections for the Forsyth County Board of Elections in North Carolina, and sits on the advisory committee of the Center for Tech and Civic Life.
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U.S. Digital Response (“USDR”) formed during the COVID-19 pandemic to help state and local governments address immediate digital needs by providing volunteer technical expertise. In 2022, it received a grant as part of a controversial program funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg that raised concerns about private funding
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Tammy Patrick is a former Arizona election official who studies, writes, and speaks about election administration in the United States. She advocates for more ballot-drop boxes, more early voting, and additional mail-in voting, even calling for prepaid postage on absentee ballots mailed to voters. She is on the board of
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The Voter Project is a left-of-center organization that promotes increased vote-by-mail and voter registration in Pennsylvania. 1 Originally founded in 2020 to implement Pennsylvania’s Act 77 law that expanded
