About Poll Watchers

Poll Watchers is an app for the people who spend election day inside a polling place, and for the coordinators who send them there. A watcher opens it on a phone to see where they are posted and when their shift starts, checks in when they arrive, and files a report from the room if something looks wrong — a line that stops moving, a machine that fails, a voter turned away, a polling place that is not accessible. Each report is timestamped, tied to the polling place, and can carry a photo or a document.

On the other side, a coordinator sees the whole picture on one dashboard: which polling places are covered and which are not, who is on shift right now, what has been reported, and what still needs an answer. Turnout can be tracked through the day, districts can be listed and claimed by the watchers who want them, and the rules that apply in a given state or county — appointment, training, what a watcher may and may not do — can be kept in one place with the official source beside them.

It is built for county parties, civic groups, campaigns and the volunteers who organize them: small teams working from their own phones, without a budget for custom software. One account holds one organization's people, places and reports, and nothing is shared across accounts.

Poll Watchers is built and maintained by an independent team. It is not a government service and is not run by any election office, and using it does not replace the appointment, certification or training your state requires — it is the record of what your watchers saw once they are there.