Voter Stability & Recovery
Most voter registration infrastructure asks: who is not registered, and how do we get them registered? This prototype begins with a different question: what happens after someone registers?
All names, records, statistics, and research findings in this prototype are fictional and simulated. No record represents an actual Florida voter.
The Central Shift
Traditional registration gets someone onto the rolls. Stability infrastructure explores how we help them stay there.
What happens next?
Traditional infrastructure successfully got this person onto the rolls. But who was watching what happened afterward?
Voter registration gets someone onto the rolls. Voter stability infrastructure explores how we help them stay there.
Registration is an event. Stability is a process.
Most systems answer: what does this person's record look like today? This project asks:
That requires preserving history.
Start with the story of one voter
Follow Marcus Johnson's record across monthly snapshots — from active, to a detected change, to outreach, to recovery.