VoteAmerica
Emily Behlmann is a senior software engineer at VoteAmerica. Engineering is a second career for Emily, who started her working life as a journalist covering education, politics, and business in Kansas. She has worked in software development and architecture for about eight years, mostly focused on the advertising and fintech industries. Now at VoteAmerica, she’s glad to be able to apply her technical skills to make it as easy as possible for citizens to engage with their democracy. Outside work, Emily can usually be found reading mysteries or camping with her wife, Stephanie, and their hounds, Rose and Cobb.
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VoteAmerica
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VoteAmerica is a fiercely nonpartisan nonprofit organization founded by a small team of technology & election experts (including the founder of Vote.org), all driven by the shared mission of increasing voter turnout rates by making it more convenient to cast your ballot. We reject outright the idea that low voter turnout is due to voter apathy, instead acknowledging that it is the result of decades of intentional partisan voter suppression efforts which have disproportionately affected the most economically and socially marginalized communities. The goal of our work is to systematically identify and remove roadblocks, in order to support and empower all populations to navigate the path to exercising their vote. We do this by providing access to trusted election information, building accessible open platform tech tools, conducting research, and running data-informed educational programs. The VoteAmerica theory of change is simple: Americans don’t need to be convinced to vote. They need to be able to vote.