Founding EnCiv partners Ballotpedia and Interactivity Foundation learned this week that the McCormick Foundation intends to award them a sizeable grant to fund their second discussion-based voter information project in as many years.
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Like the first project, run in Des Moines, this project will use discussions to elicit voters concerns on the future of Chicago. Results will be relayed in the form of questions to municipal candidates and their responses posted on Ballotpedia in advance of the February 2019 election. Of the two differences between the two pilot projects, one is obvious: scale. The results of the Chicago project may well be accessed online by tens, even hundreds, of thousands of voters. The other difference is that project organizers will be making a strong effort to include disengaged and underrepresented voters in the many discussion sessions they will be conducting.
Both partner organizations wish to thank the McCormick Foundation for its generous support, and look forward to ensuring that its money is well invested.
