Volunteers hack together UK’s digital democracy.

Fix the tech, fix democracy Though polling stations and lists of candidates are a small example of where our digital democracy is lacking, it is arguably symptomatic of a larger problem. Instead, the hard work of compiling election data in one place and making it accessible is done by a band of mostly volunteers called Democracy Club. So, Democracy Club is clearly providing a very valuable service, but there is an obvious question hanging over it: why isn't the government or Electoral Commission building all of this obvious digital democracy tech itself, instead of leaving it to volunteers?. [Extracted from the article]