Harvard students launched a tool Friday for Georgia residents to monitor their voter registration statuses ahead of next monthâs contentious Senate runoff elections in the state.
The monitoring service, VoteFlare, was the upshot of a student project in the spring 2020 course Gov 1430: âTech Science to Save the Worldâ taught by Government professor Latanya A. Sweeney, who also serves as the founding director of the Data Privacy Lab through Harvardâs Institute for Quantitative Social Science.
The service monitors a Georgia state website for the latest changes made to votersâ registration statuses. Voters can sign up to receive text messages, emails, or phone calls regarding updates to their voter status. VoteFlare also informs absentee voters when the state mails them their ballot and when election officials receive their ballot once cast.