LDV presented at the DocuSign Non-Profit and Government Advisory Committee meeting.

2. A Bit About LDV
• We launched in April 2008
• We’ve had 3.5 million unique visitors since launch
• We use technology to increase voter turnout
• We were Google’s official data provider for their “How
to vote” project
• We recently won the Knight News Challenge for
Elections

3. # of Registered Voters Who Did Not Vote in Millions
0M
14M
28M
42M
56M
70M
1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014
62M
29M
53M
20M
57M
24M
54M
30M
55M
36M
Millions of Registered Voters Don’t Vote
Source: United States Election Project (http://www.electproject.org/)

4. Long Distance Voter built a tool
that makes absentee voting easy

5. Voter
turnout in
2014 was
abysmal.
!
(only 36%)

6. Americans don’t own
printers anymore.
Or stamps. Or envelopes.

7. This is a wet signature

8. Electronic Signatures Are
Already Binding Under the Law
• Uniform Electronic Transactions Act of 1999
• National ESIGN Act of 2000
• June 30th is National ESIGN Day
• We literally have holiday celebrating
electronic signatures!

9. Long Distance Voter
+
DocuSign
+
Knight Foundation

10. Why DocuSign?
• The most prominent and trusted brand in electronic
signature technology
• Trusted by everyone, from home buyers, to corporate
500 corporations, to local and state governments
• We can’t pull of this project without a trusted
technology provider. DocuSign is that trusted provider.

11. By 2020
Americans will be able to register to vote — or sign up for their
absentee ballots — directly from their smart phones
longdistancevoter.org

12. debra@longdistancevoter.org
email me