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Layman’s Law App

You Ask…What can we do to encourage voting

before, during, and after elections?

It’s a similar inquiry that

President Obama asked on Edmund Pettus Bridge for

#Selma50 on remembrance of #BloodySunday.

“What’s our excuse today for not voting?”

“How do we so casually discard the right for which so many fought?”

“How do we so fully give away our power in shaping America’s future?”

We believe

Voting has diminished because it’s not clear that it directly impacts our lives

anymore.

Now it’s all about party lines, campaign strategies, speeches, and divisive power

plays to get or remain elected.

It’s not about who is responsible for fixing potholes, supporting entrepreneurs,

regulating phone, electric and gas costs, and making the schools in my district

better.

We’ve lost how voting makes the idea of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness

possible.

We vote when we know it will impact what we care about.

We devised our app around the theory of Layman’s Law, (a law we created as expert laymen), which states:

I am only inspired to act if I care. I only care if it makes a difference in my life.

“We The People” is NOT a homogenous body.

We also believe That we are experiencing the loss of civics in high school. People don’t know who’s responsible for what and how the government is designed to work and operate. So it’s easy to get caught up in the finger pointing drama.

Our Proposed Solution:Develop an ongoing culture of civic

engagement

1. Start with easy to understand information in visual and text about the electoral process and how our government is supposed to work.

2. Then, using a mobile smart application tool, enable people’s ability to identify and follow the issues & electeds they want to track and engage with

on the local, state, and national levels.

3. Make it easy to stay abreast, set alerts of events and activities, post comments, make inquiries, and be reminded of when and how to stay

engaged.

The Layman’s Law App FeaturesCollects user profiles

Sets user’s issue priorities

Sets communications and alert preferences

Explains positions & responsibilities

Profiles who is in office, their platform, track record & future promises

Links to relevant press/media

Syncs election cycles and public forums on calendar

Allows mobile polling & general rankings

Informs users of ways they can make inquires, concerns, approval to reps

Informs user of volunteering opportunities

Allows tracking of other areas besides user’s designated district

So, when asked, “What have you done for me, lately?”

Layman’s Law App users will know.

Thank you to the designers on who made these images available

on the Internet!#FreeInternet #NetNeutrality