Code a tool
Have programming skills? Prefer to make an impact behind the scenes? Building a tool is a powerful way to contribute—turn your code into civic change.
The Impact
Coding a tool to help people understand democracy makes the process more accessible, engaging, and empowering. Rather than reading dry explanations, users can interact with simulations, games, or visualizations that break down how voting systems work, how policies are made, or how civic participation shapes outcomes. This hands-on approach deepens understanding, encourages informed action, and helps combat confusion or misinformation. In a time when trust in institutions is low, tools like these can help people feel more connected to—and capable within—the democratic process.
The Google Civic Information API lets developers build applications that display Civic information to their users. For any US residential address, you can look up the Open Civic Data identifiers that represent the address at each elected level of government. During supported elections, you can also look up polling places, early vote location, candidate data, and other election official information.
The data is based on the political geography of a citizen’s address. This address indicates where a citizen is eligible to vote and who represents them. There are many U.S. elections throughout the year, and both election information and political geography can shift with time. Google assigns every election available in the API an election ID, and the information associated with that ID is intended to be accurate for that election only.
The service is free for data providers, users who access this information, and third parties who use our apps to display civic information on their site. Once you register your project in the Developers Console, you may make up to 25,000 queries per day. If you need additional quota, use the Quotas page in the Developers Console for your project to make a request.
https://developers.google.com/civic-information