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Ballot Initiative Signature Validation

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## What is the idea
Ballot initiatives require in-person, by-hand signatures and addresses that exactly match what's on file with the Secretary of State. To help ensure that folks who want to sign an initiative don't have their signatures thrown out, we would like a mobile/tablet app that easily displays that individual's (publicly available) address information so they can fill out a ballot initiative accurately.

## Why
When inspecting signatures for a ballot initiative, the Secretary of State's office takes a representative sample of signatures, determines a percentage of them are valid, and then uses that to accept a percentage of all signatures submitted.

What is the evidence that it is an issue in our community?]
ballot initiatives often require a much higher number of signatures than legally required due to the invalidation of large percentages of the voting population.

## Potential Partner(s)?
350 Colorado, other politically-active non-profits

Possible deadline? next legislative session or sometime in 2018

## Details
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