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Dear [%full_name | Democracy Club Supporter%],
This was the first year we had 100% coverage of all polling stations in the UK, and we even translated all our services into Welsh to make sure it reached the maximum number of people.
Yesterday alone we saw 1.2m voters use Democracy Club to find their polling station and their candidates. This brought our weekly total up to 1.9m!
None of that would have been possible without the help of the 1,526 volunteers who made 64,000 edits to get the data ready. Thank you, you're the best.
What are you doing next?
Many of the team are taking well earned rests, but we'll be coming back to work on the Representatives Project this summer.
Representatives Project
The people who are elected to run the UK collectively hold a huge amount of power but that power isn't always accessible to communities or campaigners. This is especially true for local councils.
There are approximately 400 local organisations with 22,000 elected representatives. They make decisions about everything from schools and social care, to the environment and elections.
Unlike MPs, there is no centralised database of who our local councillors are. As a consequence we see many national and local campaigns by-pass making stakeholders of local government. Councillors themselves also report feeling isolated from national politics too. We want to correct this.
Donate
Our work is only possible with the generous support of our donors. Finding funding for projects like these is notoriously difficult. A donation would go a very long way to ensuring that Democracy Club is here next year and the year after that. Donate now.
Thank you to everyone who has helped us this election. Thanks to you 1.9m voters got information they wouldn't have gotten otherwise.
The Democracy Club Team.
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