Surfacing key information in Search
In the lead up to major elections, our products help voters navigate voting information and follow live results.
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We're building products and programs to help people across the globe engage with democratic processes, to protect elections and campaigns, and to help campaigns manage their digital presence.
Driving Voter Engagement
We make it easier for people to access the authoritative electoral information that they need.
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Providing collaborative developer tools
With our Civic Information API, developers can build applications that surface information about where to vote and other election information for supported elections.
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Raising voter awareness
We raise awareness around key voting milestones, like registration deadlines and Election Day, on the Google homepage and across our platforms.
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Protecting Elections Information Online
Maintaining access to trustworthy information online is important and difficult. We’ve built free products to help keep your campaign’s information safe and to ensure that voters have accurate information when they need it.
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Safeguarding your campaign from digital attacks
Digital attacks, such as phishing and DDoS (distributed denial of service), are used to steal sensitive information and take websites offline. Our suite of Protect Your Election products gives you the tools you need to help protect your campaign from these attacks.
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Providing you with safer access to the internet
Outline, created by Jigsaw, makes it easy for your campaign to set up a virtual private network (VPN) on your own server, in order to more safely connect to the internet and keep your communications private.
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Combating the spread of misinformation
To help prevent the spread of misinformation surrounding elections, we continuously make product quality improvements and support newsrooms around the world with training and tools to better verify digital stories online.
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Helping Campaigns Manage their Digital Presence
We build products that campaigns can use to connect with voters and manage their digital presence.
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Claiming your campaign on Search
Search is often the first place voters look to find more information about campaigns. We make it easy to update the location of your campaign offices in our Search and Maps tools.
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Using video to connect with voters
YouTube can help you to strengthen your online presence, control your story, and engage with your audiences wherever they are, with videos that you can easily embed across all your media platforms and on your official website. With YouTube Live, you can now broadcast townhalls and speeches live to your audience with the push of a button.
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Reaching your constituents through digital advertising
You can build, reach, and mobilize voters through online tools. We help your campaign make the most of every moment leading up to Election Day with digital advertising solutions, programmatic media buying and analytics tools.
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Staying up-to-date on the topics that matter
With Google Trends, you can see the latest data and visualizations on what people are searching, in order to gain insight into what topics your voters care about most.
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Our work with partners
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Supporting journalists for elections transparency
In collaboration with ProPublica, we created the Elections DataBot, a tool that provides key datasets for every Congressional election in 2018, including candidate spending, latest Google Trends, and voting activity.
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Fighting misinformation in French elections
CrossCheck, a program created in collaboration with First Draft, worked with newsrooms across France to report on misleading claims circulating online during the lead up to the 2017 French Presidential elections.
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Simplifying voter registration
We worked with Pew Charitable Trusts to create the Voting Information Project, an initiative that works with US election officials to provide certified voting information–from polling places to ballot information–online.
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Innovating with political debates
During political debates in the UK, US, and France, we’ve partnered with broadcasting networks to provide a platform on YouTube for citizens to ask questions. We also surfaced Google Search Trends during the debates to underscore the questions at the top of viewers' minds.
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Fighting misinformation in US elections
On Election Day in November 2016, we worked with ProPublica to spearhead Electionland, a national reporting initiative to track voting experiences across America in real-time. The initiative involved more than 1100 journalists and was the largest collaborative reporting effort to cover a single news event in history.
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