Every door knock makes the next one easier.
Ohio publishes its voter file. Twenty-six years of election history, all eighty-eight counties, free to anyone who downloads it. In practice almost nobody can read it — and the handful of firms that can have been charging campaigns for the privilege. Precincts.info makes that public record legible to the people doing the last mile of democracy. Free to use. Open source. Nobody pays for access.
The bottleneck in grassroots organizing isn't voter apathy. People who have been badly served by an institution that arrives every two years asking for something, and never once arrives offering anything, don't become the opposition — they withdraw. The door knock is the only real service a party delivers to a citizen, and it is the part we have resourced the least. That is a problem we can fix ourselves, without waiting for anyone's permission.
The Scale of the Public Record
- 88 Counties Processed (using public Ohio SOS data)
- 26 Years of Election History (2000–2026 public SOS records)
- 209 Verified Montgomery County Precinct Seats (operational baseline as of August 2026, out of 381 precincts)
- MIT Licensed, $0 (the data is the state's, the code is everyone's)
Understanding shouldn't be a paid tier
The data has always been public. The code is public too — MIT licensed, on GitHub, forkable by anyone who wants to run it themselves or take it to another state. Neither was ever the barrier. Understanding was the barrier: a comma-delimited file wearing a .txt extension, a party field that doesn't mean what it says, a city column that isn't a jurisdiction. Reading it correctly took months and a written registry of eighty-eight counties' worth of quirks. We give that away. What costs money is running it — and that's what we ask for support to cover.