I've walked into voting booths my whole life and skipped half the ballot.

Not because I didn't care, but because I had no idea who those people were.

Local judges, school board members, county commissioners. The people who shape your daily life — your kids' schools, your property taxes, your neighborhood courts — and most of us walk right past their names because nobody ever made the information easy to find.

I got tired of that. So I built something.

ClearElect.org is a free, nonpartisan AI voter education platform that gives every voter plain-language, unbiased information about every candidate on their personal ballot — from U.S. Senate down to local school board.

You enter your address. You see your complete ballot. You read clear, sourced summaries of every candidate. You ask AI anything you want to know. And every candidate gets identical treatment regardless of party — because that's the only way this works.

No spin. No ads. No agenda. Ever.

The platform is already live at clearelect.org. I built it independently, without a team, without outside funding. Just a voter who got frustrated enough to do something about it.

Here's what your support makes possible:

Right now ClearElect runs on demo data. To make it real — to power real ballot lookups for any address in Illinois and Indiana before November 2026 — I need to connect it to a professional elections data API. That costs money I don't have yet.

Your contribution goes directly toward:

️ Ballot data API access — real candidates, real races, every level of government

AI infrastructure — so every voter gets instant, neutral candidate analysis

Mobile optimization — most voters will use this on their phones on election day

️ Expansion — Illinois and Indiana first, then every state before 2028

Why this matters right now:

43% of American voters skip local races because they don't know the candidates. 1 in 5 local elections is decided by fewer than 100 votes. The people making decisions about your schools, your streets, and your community are getting elected — or not — based on name recognition and yard signs.

ClearElect changes that. An informed voter is a powerful voter. And every voter deserves to be informed — regardless of their income, their education, or how much free time they have to research a 12-person ballot.

What makes ClearElect different from everything else:

Most voter guides stop at Governor. ClearElect doesn't.

Most AI tools have hidden biases. ClearElect publishes its exact AI prompt publicly — anyone can audit it anytime.

Most civic platforms take money from political advertisers. ClearElect never will. Not now. Not ever. That commitment is written into the platform's DNA.

We have momentum:

✅ Platform live at clearelect.org

✅ Partnership discussions underway with Democracy Works — the data provider behind TikTok and Microsoft's voter tools

✅ Knight Foundation grant application submitted

✅ Waitlist growing through word of mouth alone

What we need now is bridge funding to get real data live before November 2026.

Every dollar counts. Here's what different amounts do:

$25 — covers AI analysis for ~250 voter queries

$50 — covers one month of platform hosting

$100 — covers a week of ballot data API access

$500 — covers full API access for one state for one month

$1,000 — covers development time to wire up real ballot data

$5,000 — funds ClearElect through primary season

$10,000 — funds the full 2026 midterm cycle for Illinois and Indiana

ClearElect.org