About Us
Our vision: informed voters, accountable leaders
Elected officials should work for us – the voters.
But today, about 16 of every 100 ballots cast nationally doesn’t include a vote for state legislature.1 In nonpartisan races, 22.5% of voters don’t weigh in.2 And in the November 2024 election, a striking 56% of San Francisco voters left at least one item blank on their ballots.3
The experts call this ‘roll-off.’ We call it a huge missed opportunity. Because politicians pay attention to people who vote.
Change.vote was built to ensure that all citizens can vote informed, all the way down their ballot. We believe that building open, unbiased, and nonpartisan tools for civic participation is essential to creating a truly free and fair society.
76%of people felt more confident in their voting choices after using Change.vote
How it works
How we’re funded
Our budget is funded by contributions from tens of thousands of ordinary people. No money from politicians, political parties, PACs, or other partisan sources.
Change.vote is a project of Change.org, a public benefit corporation overseen by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation.
This structure ensures that we are ultimately accountable to our users and our mission, not to any particular funder, party, or shareholder. We are the largest nonprofit-owned civic tech company in the world. Read more about Change.org’s business model., opens in new tab
$0to use – funded by citizens, for citizens.
Who’s in charge
You’re in charge of how you use Change.vote
We don’t sell your data, we don’t make you create an account, and what you browse and how you choose is up to you. You can save your picks to your device, but we’ll never share them unless you choose to publish who you’re supporting.
The team building Change.vote includes a couple dozen engineers, product specialists, researchers, and designers, plus a group of full-time and local organizers, partnership specialists, and communicators who help us get the word out. See the full Change.org team., opens in new tab
Contact us
Get in touch if you want to:
Let us know about an inaccuracy or issue with the data on the site: data@change.vote
Have general questions or need another kind of assistance: help@change.vote
Help spread the word, by partnering or collaborating with us: ejakobsen@change.org
For the media:
Press Release: New Nonpartisan Guide Asks Voters – Not Algorithms – What Matters on the Ballot, opens in new tab
Contact: Charlotte Levitt, clevitt@change.org