Making vote-by-mail work
Steve Lund, technical product manager at USDR, shares how election offices are modernizing their back offices with Electionline
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Steve Lund, technical product manager at USDR, shares how election offices are modernizing their back offices with Electionline


The 2025 Digital Service Champions Awards celebrate excellence in digital government modernization.


How AI-powered metadata generation will transform the City’s and public access to police oversight records.


On May 5, U.S. Digital Response brought together a virtual panel of some of the best in government and technology to reflect on what’s happened over the last year, how we’ve supported communities in need, what we’ve learned, and what digital response efforts will look like in future crises.


Over the past year, U.S. Digital Response (USDR) and Colorado Digital Service (CDS) tried something new. Less than a year into both forming, we decided to experiment with ways that a government digital services team and an organization offering pro bono technical expertise could partner to get things done in a moment of global crisis.


Kammi Foote administered elections for 14 years and served as the Clerk Recorder & Registrar of Voters for Inyo County, Calif., for 10 years.


“Does anyone know of any opportunities to contribute UX research skills to good causes?” read an email from a fellow user experience (UX) researcher. I was curious about what responses he’d get because I was also interested in volunteering.


Pennsylvania's Department of Labor and Industry engaged USDR's Unemployment Insurance team to better understand the claimant user experience and improve its designs.


As of April 1, 55 million people in the U.S. have received their full COVID-19 vaccinations. By mid-April, 90% of remaining adults will be eligible to receive the vaccine.
One year ago, an unprecedented wave of layoffs and furloughs left millions of Americans unemployed as the COVID-19 pandemic overtook the U.S. Since then, approximately 40 million people have received unemployment insurance benefits, and many more have applied.


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We started with a hypothesis. During the COVID-19 crisis in New York City in the spring of 2020, we had seen how fast skilled technologists could help spin up digital solutions.