About

Who is behind Visible Vote?

Visible Vote was founded by Paul Everton, an average citizen, as he tried to get involved in the political process in light of the impending $700 billion government bailout. Paul discovered that making your voice heard as an average citizen is nearly impossible, because the system has become so big that it has become impractical for constituents to attempt to have a dialogue with their representatives.

After experiencing firsthand the difficulty with knowing how his legislators had voted and with having his voice heard, Paul sat down with his younger brother and explained the problems and had an "Aha!" moment, and Visible Vote was born.

Visible Vote was created to address the following:

  • The average citizen feels powerless in making a difference in today's government and policies.
  • We are not sure where to get fair and unbiased information on issues being voted on.
  • We don't understand how laws and politics affect us personally.
  • The system is too large and complex to be engaged using old technology like faxes and voice mails.
  • Political opinions are charged with emotion and Visible Vote makes it easy to understand and communicate.

Visible Vote’s Goals:

  • Know your representatives and make your voice heard.
  • Bring the power of government down to the everyday person.
  • Personalize politics down to the individual.
  • Allow for every day citizens to use technology that is simple and time efficient.
  • Make it fun and enjoyable to participate and communicate with others on political issues.

Visible Vote will remain a free, unbiased, non-partisan application for every U.S. citizen to accomplish today what wasn’t possible before.

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Bios

Paul Everton
Founder & CEO

Paul Everton is CEO and founder of Visible Vote; he was recently honored as a top innovator at the Chicago Innovation Awards for creating Visible Vote. He has over 16 years of experience in information technology, programming techniques, network and infrastructure design, IT sales and business development.

Everton developed Visible Vote in 2009 to help strengthen the pipeline between people and their legislators. Before that, he developed complex network architecture designs for Fortune 100 clients while working for a San Francisco-based firm. He began his career designing security infrastructures for the nation’s most secure government organizations.

Everton is a graduate of Georgia Tech with a bachelor’s degree in computer science; he specializes in network security and cryptography techniques. He currently resides in Chicago.

Jason Pritzker
Co-Founder & President

Jason Pritzker is co-founder and President of Visible Vote. He helped develop Visible Vote to strengthen communication lines between voters and their legislators. Pritzker's background includes work in the manufacturing industry, investment banking industry and hotel industry. Most recently, he worked for the Marmon Group, an industrial manufacturing company. From 2003-2006, Pritzker worked at Goldman Sachs in the Investment Banking Division. Prior to that, Pritzker worked for the Hyatt Corporation in Madrid. Pritzker has been active in philanthropy for Chicago institutions, having founded the Metropolitan Board of the Chicago Children's Museum and hosted fundraising events for the Chicago Art Institute. He graduated from Brandeis University with a B.A. in sociology. He currently resides in Chicago, Illinois.