A clearer ballot starts before Election Day.
MyBallot is a nonpartisan voter education and ballot-planning tool that helps people see who is running, compare candidates, understand issue positions, build their own ballot, and look back at past election results.
Louisiana elections can be crowded, confusing, and hard to follow, especially in local races where reliable information is often scattered across campaign pages, social media, government websites, sample ballots, and word of mouth. MyBallot brings that information into one accessible experience so voters can prepare with more confidence.
See how it works →Built as nonpartisan civic infrastructure to reduce voter confusion, improve access to election information, and make participation easier across Louisiana.
The problem
The ballot should not be the barrier.
Too often, voters are asked to make important decisions with too little clear information. Candidate details may be scattered. Local races may receive little coverage. Ballot measures may be difficult to understand. And by the time voters reach the polls, many are still trying to figure out what is actually on their ballot.
MyBallot is designed to attack that friction directly. The goal is not to tell voters what to think. The goal is to make sure voters have the information, context, and planning tools they need to participate with confidence.
Information is scattered
Voters often have to jump between government websites, campaign pages, news articles, social media, and personal networks just to understand who is running.
Local races are under-covered
The offices closest to people's daily lives are often the hardest to research, especially in smaller communities and lower-turnout elections.
Ballot decisions happen too late
Many voters do not fully engage with their choices until they are already at the polls, which makes participation more stressful and less informed.
Product overview
MyBallot turns election information into an actual voting plan.
The application is built around a simple idea: voters should be able to explore their options, compare choices, and walk into the voting booth with a plan they understand.
View candidates
Give voters a clean, organized way to see who is running for office and access basic candidate information in one place.
Compare choices
Let voters compare candidates side by side so they can understand differences in background, priorities, and public positions.
View ballot measures
Explains upcoming ballot measures clearly so voters know exactly what's being proposed.
Learn issue positions
Display candidate responses on key community issues when available, helping voters move beyond name recognition and campaign slogans.
Build a ballot
Allow voters to save their preferred choices as they research each race and create a personal ballot plan before Election Day.
Review past results
Help voters, organizers, journalists, and civic groups understand previous election outcomes, turnout patterns, and local political context.
How it works
How MyBallot works for voters
MyBallot is designed to make the voter journey feel less like homework and more like a guided path from curiosity to preparation.
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Choose an election
The voter selects the current or upcoming election they want to explore.
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Browse races and candidates
They can view candidates, offices, campaign details, and available issue information.
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Compare options
The comparison view helps voters evaluate candidates in the same contest side by side.
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Build a ballot plan
As voters make choices, they can save them to a personalized ballot they can review before voting.
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Vote with confidence
The result is a voter who understands more, guesses less, and has a clearer plan for Election Day.
The vision
A civic participation layer for Louisiana.
MyBallot is starting with a practical problem: voters need clearer, easier access to election information. But the long-term vision is larger than one app or one election cycle.
LDI is building MyBallot as part of a broader participation infrastructure ecosystem — one that helps voters prepare, helps communities distribute trusted election information, and helps Louisiana build healthier habits around civic participation.
Statewide ballot coverage
Expand into a reliable statewide election information tool covering Louisiana races across parishes, municipalities, school boards, judicial contests, ballot measures, and statewide offices.
Reliable data workflows
Build repeatable processes for election data intake, candidate information, ballot measure summaries, source tracking, updates, and corrections.
Accessibility-first design
Improve usability for voters with different levels of political knowledge, digital comfort, language access needs, and accessibility requirements.
Community distribution
Equip local partners with QR codes, explainers, digital toolkits, printed materials, and training so MyBallot reaches voters through trusted community channels.
Democracy Access Points
Create opportunities for libraries, churches, campuses, community centers, and local organizations to help voters access MyBallot even when personal technology or internet access is limited.
Long-term civic habits
Make ballot planning a normal civic habit, not something voters only scramble to do at the last minute.
Partners
How partners can help
MyBallot becomes more powerful when it is distributed through organizations and leaders that communities already trust. LDI is looking for partners who can help bring reliable voter information to more people, especially in communities that are too often underserved by traditional political and media infrastructure.
Community organizations
Help voters use MyBallot at events, forums, registration drives, community meetings, and local education programs.
Host demos, share QR codes, distribute voter education materials, and collect feedback from real users.
Libraries, campuses, and civic spaces
Serve as access points where voters can research their ballot, ask basic questions, and get connected to reliable election information.
Provide space, devices, training opportunities, and trusted local visibility.
Candidate forums and civic events
Use MyBallot as a companion tool for debates, town halls, forums, and voter education events.
Connect event programming to candidate profiles, comparison tools, issue questionnaires, and ballot planning.
Election and democracy advocates
Help identify information gaps, confusing ballot items, access barriers, and opportunities to improve the voter experience.
Support research, user testing, translation priorities, accessibility review, and local outreach.
Interested in bringing MyBallot to your community?
LDI is seeking organizations, civic leaders, libraries, campuses, media partners, and community groups that want to make voter education easier and more accessible.
Become a MyBallot partnerFor funders
What funding makes possible
Funding MyBallot means funding the infrastructure that helps voters participate with more clarity and less friction. Support allows LDI to improve the product, expand coverage, strengthen data quality, and build the community distribution network required to reach voters who are least likely to stumble across this information on their own.
Product development
Improve the user experience, add new features, strengthen mobile performance, and make the tool easier to use across different voter journeys.
Election data infrastructure
Build reliable workflows for gathering, verifying, updating, and displaying election information across parishes and election cycles.
Accessibility and language access
Invest in accessibility audits, plain-language design, multilingual planning, and usability testing with voters who are too often excluded from civic technology design.
Community pilots
Support parish-level pilots with local partners, training materials, voter education events, and real-world user feedback.
Democracy Access Points
Help place MyBallot in trusted physical spaces where voters can access the tool even if they lack reliable internet, devices, or digital confidence.
Measurement and evaluation
Track usage, ballot-plan completion, partner distribution, return visits, rural and urban reach, and other metrics that help LDI improve the tool over time.
Help scale MyBallot across Louisiana.
LDI is building MyBallot to become durable civic infrastructure for voters, partners, and communities across the state. Funders can help move the tool from promising pilot to statewide public resource.
Accountability
How we measure progress
MyBallot is built to be useful, not ornamental. LDI will measure whether the tool is reaching voters, helping them complete ballot plans, and giving partners a practical way to distribute trusted election information.
Voters reached
Unique users, return visits, and geographic reach across parishes.
Ballot plans created
How many voters move from browsing information to saving choices.
Races and candidates covered
The depth and completeness of election information available through the tool.
Partner distribution
QR scans, referral links, event usage, and organization-level outreach.
Access and equity
Usage in rural communities, high-poverty areas, campuses, libraries, and other access points.
User feedback
What voters found confusing, useful, missing, or worth improving.
FAQ
Questions about MyBallot
- Is MyBallot partisan?
- No. MyBallot is designed as nonpartisan voter education infrastructure. The tool helps voters access information, compare choices, and prepare to vote. It does not endorse candidates or tell voters how to vote.
- Does MyBallot replace official election information?
- No. MyBallot is a voter education and planning tool. Official election information still comes from election administrators and government sources. MyBallot points users toward official sources where appropriate and clearly communicates source information.
- Can community organizations use MyBallot at events?
- Yes. MyBallot is designed to support voter education events, candidate forums, community meetings, campus programs, library access points, and other civic spaces where voters are looking for clear election information.
- What kinds of elections can MyBallot support?
- The long-term goal is for MyBallot to support statewide, parish, municipal, judicial, school board, legislative, congressional, and ballot measure elections across Louisiana.
- How can funders support MyBallot?
- Funders can support product development, election data infrastructure, accessibility improvements, community pilots, Democracy Access Points, and measurement systems that help LDI scale MyBallot responsibly.
Let's make ballot planning normal.
MyBallot is built on the belief that democracy works better when participation is easier, information is clearer, and voters have the tools to prepare before they cast a ballot.