Organizers pick candidates at the contest level — “Jocelyn Benson for governor and lieutenant governor”, once. Not once per precinct.
Every voter then sees a replica of the ballot they will actually be handed, built to the state’s own design spec, with your picks already filled in and the races their precinct doesn’t vote left off entirely.
Nothing to install. A published slate is a plain web page you can text to a neighbor.
With an account, slates save to a dashboard where you can edit and distribute them, and the builder adds a worklist of the races that actually need a decision.
Most slates take about five minutes.
Click the oval next to a candidate, exactly as a voter would. As you pick, the builder tells you how many precincts that single endorsement just reached.
Switch precincts and watch the marks follow. Statewide races carry everywhere; local ones appear only on the ballots that actually hold them.
One click produces a marked ballot for every precinct in the county. Send people the link for theirs — it opens as a page they can read on a phone or print.
A printed slate card says “vote for these six.” It cannot tell a voter in one township that their state senate race is a different race from the one three miles away — and a single county can hold nearly as many distinct ballots as it has precincts.
Because an endorsement is attached to the race rather than to a precinct, one pick lands correctly on every ballot that carries it, and stays off the ones that don’t. That is the whole design.
Every replica carries a SAMPLE — NOT AN OFFICIAL BALLOT watermark and a mark color no real ballot uses.
Type sizes, shading, and the statutory order of offices follow the state’s own published ballot production standards, so the replica matches what voters see — while never being mistakable for the real thing.
A “Paid for by” identifier is required before anything can be published or shared. Campaign finance law reaches printed matter naming a candidate, and a marked sample ballot is exactly that.