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During these exceptional times, voting-by-mail not only ensures that participating in democracy won’t undermine public health, but also sets a framework for voting-by-mail to improve elections beyond the Covid-19 pandemic.
Vome seeks to challenge the unfounded myths surrounding voting-by-mail, the ways in which voting-by-mail stands to better our democracy by increasing voter turnout, and what is currently being done to protect our right to vote, safely and with confidence. Our (nonpartisan) mission is to increase voter turnout by bringing your ballot home to you. The days of frantically googling polling places and candidates are over. Vome is your voter assistant to help match you with candidates you can believe in, and ensure your voice is heard. Vome walks users through their ballot application process and sets folks up to vote with confidence in an unsettling time… Welcome Vome.
Voting from Home
Are you willing to die for your right to vote? It’s a thoroughly American question, perhaps more now than ever.
As the coronavirus continues to spread across the country, we have mounting concerns surrounding the safety of in-person voting. Despite such fears, and ample time to prepare or extend the primary, over one-hundred thousand Wisconsin voters turned out to exercise that right in the presidential primary. No American voter should have to jeopardize their health to exercise their right to vote. During these exceptional times, voting-by-mail not only ensures that participating in democracy won’t undermine public health, but also sets a framework for voting-by-mail to improve elections beyond this pandemic.
Vome’s mission is to help American voters navigate government applications and websites to better access their ballot from the comfort and safety of their homes.
A recent Sanford study found that there is no evidence that voting by mail is better for either party, and a Reuters poll in April 2020 found that 79% of Democrats and 65% of Republicans support providing all voters with a mail-in ballot in the 2020 general election.
All-mail voting is not only safer than in-person voting, but also better for democratic representation. The NYT has found this is true across all age, income, race, occupational, and education groups, not any one political party traditionally disinclined to decrease voter turnout among the historically disenfranchised. According to the National Vote at Home Institute, vote-by-mail states had a ten percent higher voter turnout than other states. Though the effort to address voting accessibility may be preempted by a concern for public health, the concern for a fair and equitable democracy should compel states to hold onto all-mail voting long after this crisis ends. That’s where Vome comes in.