The U.S. Vote Foundation (US Vote) is a non-partisan non-profit 501(c)(3) voter assistance and civic tech organization that helps American citizens, domestically, overseas or in the military, participate in elections by providing public access to internet-based voter services. The organization was originally founded as the Overseas Vote Foundation (Overseas Vote) in 2005 by Susan Dzieduszycka-Suinat and other American citizens living abroad as a way to assist overseas voters in exercising rights protected under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA). In 2012, US Vote was founded and expanded to include voting services for domestic voters. Overseas Vote remains an initiative of US Vote. Mission US Vote offers its data for use by third party voter outreach organizations, voter apps and services developers, and academics and other researchers. US Vote's key activities are: Developing tools and services that simplify the overseas and military voter registration process and ballot request process. Licensing customized voter services applications to states and voting organizations. Providing outreach to voters through an ongoing communications program. Conducting research and surveys of U.S. citizens regarding the overseas and military voter registration and absentee ballot process. Voter services and site usage US Vote provides services for voters in all states and territories. Overseas American citizens, U.S. State Department employees, and active duty uniformed service members and their accompanying families, within and outside of the United States can register to vote from abroad and request their ballots using US Vote's suite of voter services. US Vote licenses its data, including contact information for approximately 8,000 local election offices, to partners including the U.S. Postal Service, the National Association of Secretaries of State, Rock the Vote, Vote.org and some corporations (Exxon Mobil, for instance, licenses a custom website to help its overseas workers access absentee ballots). In November 2015, the organization's Local/Municipal Election Dates and Deadlines Data Management System and API was selected for the Knight Foundation's Prototype Fund. It aims to create a nationwide system to collect, maintain and distribute information on upcoming local election dates and deadlines. US Vote had 2.6 million visits in 2016 on two portals that the group maintains. The organization has seen a 400 percent increase in ballot requests on their system since 2012. Through USVF's websites, voters have access to registration information, a downloadable Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot (Vote-Print-Mail Ballot), state-specific voter information directory (SVID), a local election official directory, and a "voter