Municipal Voter Guides

I created a framework for quickly turning municipal candidate data - kept in spreadsheets - into mobile-first single page applications that could be hosted on Github Pages (for free).

Working with Bus Federation affiliates Chicago Votes, New Era Colorado, and MOVE San Antonio, I created three different voter guides for Chicago, Denver, and San Antonio's municipal elections. Each election featured a mayoral race, city council races (with an address-to-city-council-district lookup tool), and several ballot measures. Each candidate or measure also featured a "share" button which produced candidate specific opengraph and twitter card content.

The static HTML sites were built using Rake and Ruby Templates, along with SASS, the Google Maps API, and jQuery