Community Standards

Last updated: March 31, 2026

VoteAmerica's Community Standards are intended to ensure that our customers use our products and services to foster safe and trusted spaces for supporting, enabling, and encouraging community-centered collective power. Treating people with dignity is at the core of our Community Standards.

By creating an account or logging into the Services, you agree to be bound by these Community Standards, the Terms of Service, and our Acceptable Use Policy.

1. Treat People with Dignity

Customers commit to taking reasonable steps to create and promote their content in a considerate manner, free of vitriol, that aligns with VoteAmerica's vision of creating thriving communities through civic engagement and a healthy participatory democracy.

The following activities are explicitly disallowed from any customer using our services:

1.1 Disseminating Misinformation and/or Disinformation

Misinformation and disinformation undermine the integrity of our democracy. Misinformation is misleading, untruthful, or outdated information that erodes trust in people and systems essential for individual and community safety, security, and growth. It also includes out-of-context information that is misleading, such as outdated scientific information, conspiracy theories, and debunked stories.

Disinformation is false or misleading information created with the intent to deceive, or with willful disregard for generally accepted facts. Examples of disinformation include:

• Misrepresentation of the dates, locations, times, and methods for voting, voter registration, or census participation;
• Misrepresentation of who can vote, qualifications for voting, whether a vote will be counted, or what information must be provided to vote;
• Misrepresentation of who can participate in the census and what information or materials must be provided;
• Content stating that census or electoral participation may or will result in law enforcement consequences (e.g., arrest, deportation, or imprisonment); or
• Explicit claims that people will be infected by COVID-19 or another communicable disease if they participate in the voting process.

1.2 Perpetuating Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, or Bullying

Partners may not create or distribute content that uses pejorative language or promotes violence or hatred against individuals or groups. Such statements undermine equality and impact the wellbeing of individuals. Statements of inferiority based on any of the following categories, or calls for segregation, may be considered hate speech:

Age, Sex, Gender Identity and Expression, Sexual Orientation, Caste, Accessibility, Ethnicity, Nationality, Race, Immigration Status, Religion, Victims of a Major Violent Event and their Kin, or Veteran Status.

1.3 Bullying or Intimidating Any Individual

VoteAmerica does not tolerate bullying or harassment of any kind. Bullying includes any habitual badgering or intimidation targeted at a specific person with the intent to harass, as well as encouragements of self-harm.

1.4 Discouraging or Restricting Access to Civic Engagement

VoteAmerica believes that ensuring individual voices are heard is a critical component of a healthy democratic culture. We do not accept any efforts by partners that discourage or hinder individuals from participating in voting or other civic activity, including supporting broad efforts to limit voter participation or communicating with individuals in a manner that could be interpreted as dissuading them from civic engagement.

1.5 Undermining Trust in the Democratic Process

The democratic culture we are striving for is built on the assumption that democratic processes represent the intentions of communities across the nation. VoteAmerica will not tolerate any efforts by partners to undermine, propagate distrust in, or directly threaten the laws, organizations, or positions of those who support them — including the refusal or rejection of the legitimacy of an election without credible evidence.

1.6 Opposing Reasonable Government Regulations or Oversight

VoteAmerica believes that the government exists to protect its citizens and provide public services that lead to healthy, free, and dignified lives for all. Any efforts by partners to oppose reasonable regulations and oversight undercuts the democratic process and prevents communities from exercising the power they are intended to wield.

1.7 Diminishing Trust in Science

There is an important factual basis behind the scientific process that is critical for our society to have the most accurate information available. VoteAmerica expects that the engagement and dialogue our tools support rely on fact to ensure accurately informed communities. Partners cannot perform activities that cast doubt on information driven by reputable scientific evidence, or activities that have been proven incorrect by such evidence.

1.8 Opposing or Diminishing Bodily Autonomy

In a healthy democracy, people must feel that their individual rights are respected and that they have control over their own social well-being. VoteAmerica believes that individuals have the right to make their own decisions as they relate to their own body. Any efforts by partners to promote challenges to those expectations will not be tolerated.

1.9 Threatening or Fomenting Violence

Partners may not threaten violence towards others or use our products, tools, or services to organize, promote, or incite acts of real-world violence or terrorism, or generate or distribute content that is likely to lead to a breach of the peace. Partners must think carefully about the words and images they use, and must work to ensure their content cannot be interpreted as threatening or promoting violence. In extraordinary cases, VoteAmerica may report threats of violence to law enforcement or an appropriate government agency if we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or a threat to public safety.

1.10 Impersonating Other Persons

Partners may not impersonate another person with the intent to deceive, as this behavior contributes to an erosion of trust and creates an environment for the dissemination of misinformation. This includes posting content under another person's email address, intentionally using a deceptively similar username, or otherwise posing as a different entity with the intent to deceive.

1.11 Doxxing or Invading Privacy

To support an individual's right to privacy, partners may not post the personal information of private persons, including phone numbers, private email addresses, physical addresses, credit card numbers, social security numbers, unique governmental IDs, or passwords. Depending on context, VoteAmerica may also consider other information — such as photos or videos taken or distributed without the subject's consent — to be an invasion of privacy, especially when such material presents personal, financial, or safety risk to the subject.

1.12 Disseminating Sexually Explicit Content

Partners may not post or distribute pornography.

1.13 Spamming or Engaging in Commercial Solicitation

Partners may not engage in any form of commercial solicitation. Within the content they create using our tools and services, partners may not post commercial advertisements, link to spam websites, or otherwise vandalize a community. These activities are not aligned with the community-building intentions of VoteAmerica's products.

1.14 Designing Malware or Exploits

Partners are not permitted to use our tools and services as a means to deliver malicious executables or attack infrastructure (e.g., organizing denial of service attacks or managing command and control servers). This also includes implementing or taking advantage of vulnerabilities in VoteAmerica's tools and services.

1.15 Promoting Harmful Products

VoteAmerica expects partners to avoid supporting products and efforts that promote sugary beverages, tobacco, vaping, weapons, and/or fossil fuels, as these products can negatively impact the health and security of individuals and communities.

2. Enforcement

Adherence to these standards will help us realize our vision of creating thriving communities in which every individual can lead a free, healthy, and dignified life. VoteAmerica reserves the right to enforce this policy at its discretion through any methods we deem necessary, including but not limited to warning letters, probationary periods, additional scrutiny, suspension from the Services, implementation of technical changes, or taking appropriate legal action, including reporting a customer to a law enforcement agency or appropriate government agency.

If you believe a VoteAmerica customer has violated this policy, please contact legal@voteamerica.org.