Summary: Democracy Works and TurboVote, Co-founder Seth Flaxman talks about using data and technology to help people vote via mail. Their main product, TurboVote has had great success due to their teams ability to gather the most accurate list of election locations in the country. They have made voting via absentee ballot as easy as getting a movie from Netflix, which is the first step of their larger plan to make voting easier in the US. Resources Mechanical Turk - you can use this service for large, repetitive tasks that require a human eye. Odesk.com and screen scrapers - you can hire developers to create simple Python screen scrapers to aggregate data from the web. TurboVote.org - great tool for setting up a voter registration and absentee ballots on your site.
