Join 1,000 journalists across the U.S. to monitor the vote on Election Day.

Election Day is just one week from today, and Americans nationwide will take to the polls to cast their ballot. Six weeks ago, alongside ProPublica, WNYC, the First Draft Coalition, CUNY, Univision and the USA Today Network, we announced Electionland, a collaborative reporting initiative designed to leverage data and technology to give journalists unprecedented visibility into what’s happening at polling stations across the country. In the past several weeks, the act of voting itself has become an increasingly important point of discussion, and as election administration has moved to the forefront of the campaign, we’ve seen this coalition of news organizations grow.

Since our announcement, more than 450 local journalists across the country have signed on to receive tips and publish stories around voting issues at the polls. Over 600 journalism students at 14 journalism schools have come onboard to track social media data and Google Search trends. They will also review tips from national reporting hotlines to surface potential problems at the polls across all 50 states.

Facebook, Dataminr, and Crowdtangle have provided additional tools for journalists monitoring issues at the polls. And our Google Trends team will build a customized map that will show where relevant keywords, such as provisional ballots and long wait times, are being searched for across the country in real-time on Election Day.

Electionland aims to support journalists and citizens across the country identify issues at the polls on Election Day. Here are some ways you can get involved:

If you’re a local reporter assigned to cover Election Day and want real-time notifications on voting problems in your area, here’s how you can sign up.

If you’re a voter interested in the project, sign up to help report voting problems in your area by texting ELECTIONLAND to 69866. We’ll check in on Election Day to find out how long it took you to vote and whether you had or saw any problems.

If you’re a national newsroom and want to leverage Electionland resources for your reporting on Election Day:

• The Electionland live blog is available now! Writers and editors from ProPublica and the New York Times will be surfacing the latest verified voting issues found across the country in near real-time.
• ProPublica is publishing multiple stories about the project; these pieces are available under a Creative Commons license, which means you can publish them, too.
• A Google Trends voting issues map will be published on the Electionland live blog on 11/18 as well as the Google Trends Election Hub — we will post on @GoogleTrends as soon as it is live.
• Electionland and Google Trends spokespeople will be available on Election Day for interviews — contact Cynthia Gordy at Cynthia.Gordy@propublica.org for more information.
• The Election DataBot surfaces interesting campaign data, including campaign finance filings, Google search trends, vote activity from sitting members of congress, new polls, forecasts from 538, and Cook Political Report race ratings. Election DataBot is available on ProPublica now.

We’re excited to work with so many journalists to use technology to cover what’s happening on Election Day in a new and hopefully transformative way. Stay tuned for more updates on the Electionland live blog.