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To view or enhance the source code that runs the Who Voted website, please see the project's SourceForge Page.

About the Contributors

The Who Voted website was conceived by Todd Davies while he was the President of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR). CPSR is a global organization promoting the responsible use of computer technology.

Google Summer of Code, a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects, provided the means for CPSR to get the project off the ground by providing Who Voted's first student developer, Jeffrey Gerard, in 2007. The project was supervised by Gordon Lyon, Todd Davies, and Annalee Newitz. In early 2008, control of the Who Voted project was transfered by the CPSR Board to Todd Davies, and the site is now hosted as a research project in the Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University, where Davies is Associate Director. In the summer of 2008, Reid Chandler, a student in Symbolic Systems at Stanford, joined the project as a researcher and developer. The views expressed on the Who Voted website are solely those of the research team (Todd Davies, Jeffrey Gerard, Reid Chandler, and Gordon Lyon), and do not represent those of Stanford University, CPSR, or Google.

The HTML website layout is loosely based on an Open Source Web Design template created by Technology Directory.

License: GPLv3

Who Voted is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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You should be able to find a copy of the GNU General Public License at <http://whovoted.net/COPYING.txt>. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

 

About Who Voted

Who Voted lets you see whose votes were recorded in recent elections (It does not say who they voted for.)

All information available on this site is public record and provided by the Elections Departments in states and counties around the United States.

The views expressed on this site are solely those of the project team, and do not represent the views of Stanford University, CPSR, or Google.


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