Welcome to the Votimus Alpha Launch!

Thanks for joining us for the pre-launch of Votimus!

For years I’ve been frustrated by how difficult it is to find even basic information about, much less get involved in, the elections, candidates and issues across the country that I care about. After spending far too many hours in front of my computer searching through a seemingly endless maze of national news sites, local news sites, political sites, candidate sites and blogs, I thought to myself that there needs to be a better way of doing things.

I wanted a website where anyone could quickly get information about federal, state and local elections taking place anywhere around the country. The best way to do this, I thought, would be through an easy-to-use interactive map of the United States with a simple toolbar next to the map controlling the level of government. With a few clicks, a person would be able to find an election, research the candidates running, see what the relevant issues were and read the most current news for any election in the country.

And not only would people be able to learn about elections, they’d actually be able to participate in them – make a campaign contribution, sign up to volunteer, indicate which candidate they supported, tell their friends, etc. In other words, they’d be able to get involved.

On top of that, the site would attract and be supported by a great politically-oriented community of people. People would be able to share with others (if they wanted to) the elections they were following, the candidates they were supporting, the issues they cared about and the organizations they were involved with. Or, if they wanted, the site would be a place where they could meet new people.

So, I created Votimus. Or, to be more precise, with your help our team is in the process of creating Votimus. We are still in our very early stages, so we will be adding additional content and functionality over the coming weeks. Still, even with our basic version you can:

• Get information on thousands of elections taking place this November;


• Become a member and join the Votimus community;


• Track the elections you most interested in through our
  “MyElections” feature;


• Show others the candidates and organizations you support;


• Make your voice heard by commenting on elections and candidates
  around the country;


• Search our database of thousands of candidates;


• Send your friends links to our election pages;


• And many other things.

Again, we will be adding a lot to the site in the near future, including additional social networking features, the ability to add user generated content and more local election and candidate information. However, we hope you find even this basic version of the site informative and engaging.

Please explore the site and let us know what you like and don’t like about it. We are eager to get your feedback so that we can continuously improve the site and make it better and better. Whether you have a comment regarding the site’s graphics, usability, content, etc., we want to know what you think!

Thank you in advance for your help, and we’ll let you know as we roll out more complete versions of the site.

Best regards, and happy 4th of July!

Scott Gluck
Founder/CEO
Votimus