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Doing digital democracy

The people of the UK have just voted in a new government, and in local authorities across the country, thousands of councillors have been elected. For the past few weeks I've been involved in a small way, in the electoral process and over Thursday  and Friday I worked 27 hours out of 32. Some of my colleagues continue today, for the count of the parish elections. Prior to the election, working with Democracy Club I helped them produce their polling station finder . When I say I helped them, we gave them some data, they put in the long hours of creating and refining the finder, and I did a bit of bug testing. I wrote a lot more about why the polling station finder is a good thing here . The polls opened at 7am on 7 May and we were able to offer voters not only the location of polling stations in our district, but neighbouring Reading Borough too. This is a model that I've talked about for a while. Civic coders, or perhaps even a GDS Local producing common functionality