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24 alternatives to TO BUILD A BETTER BALLOT

An interactive guide to alternative voting systems

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. TO BUILD A BETTER BALLOT launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Votebox▲125

   Secure internet voting

   2017 · votebox.co · its alternatives →

2. 2
   One Click Battle▲204

   Simple realtime voting system

   2016 · oneclickbattle.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   TurboVote▲98

   Making voting easy with text and email reminders

   2016 · turbovote.org · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Helios▲68

   Verifiable online elections

   2015 · vote.heliosvoting.org · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Voting Dog▲89

   Embedded real-time voting service for your website

   2015 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Democracy OS▲90

   Better decisions, together.

   2015 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Countable▲73

   Direct Democracy with Countable

   2014 · myactionable.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Participoll▲78

   Free audience polling for Powerpoint.

   2015 · participoll.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Vote.org▲114

   Everything you need to vote

   2016 · vote.org · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Candidate Crunch▲67

    Voter engagement through a mobile game

    2016 · urthworx.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Open-source voting platform▲5

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Votecastr▲108

    Unprecedented real-time US election voting data

    2016 · votecastr.us · its alternatives →

13. 13
    PublicVotes▲3

    A publicly verifiable voting system

    2015 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Hipvote▲18

    Making democracy fun and engaging

    2014 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    BALLOT.FYI▲64

    Quickest nonpartisan voter guide for CA state propositions

    2016 · ballot.fyi · its alternatives →

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    Voten▲73

    Social bookmarking for the 21st Century

    2017 · voten.co · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Democracy.io by EFF▲152

    A simpler way to send messages to Congress

    2015 · democracy.io · its alternatives →

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    Swelly 3.0▲160

    A social voting app fully integrated in Messenger 🐳

    2017 · messenger.com · its alternatives →

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    Electoral.io▲58

    IO games meet Elections

    2016 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Yo Polls▲177

    Frictionless polls. Vote from your lock screen.

    2016 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Ballotcraft▲77

    It's like fantasy football, but for politics!

    2016 · ballotcraft.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Openvote▲131

    Crowd-voting platform, running a test for SF Election

    2015 · openvote.com · its alternatives →

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    Hora del Tech - 21: El Poder del Crowdsourcing: Ahorrar y Escalar Eficazmente with Jorge Garcia▲53

    (Spanish) talk about Crowdsourcing for politcal voting

    2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

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    Vote!▲123

    Predict news outcomes

    2016 · thevoteapp.com · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →