I'm pleased to report that my company, NGP VAN, Inc., has released the Google Civic module, which makes uses Google Civic API to provide polling place lookup functionality to any Drupal 6 or 7 website, in order to promote participation in the US general election on Nov. 6, 2012. (Or, for that matter, any election for which Google provides data.)
The module includes the following features:
- A sidebar block which includes a form for the site visitor's home address
- Display of the user's polling location, early polling locations, and a link to the election official's website
- A Google Map which displays the user's home address and voting locations
- Administrative settings to support the display of polling places for any election which Google Civic API supports.
- (Drupal 7 only) Display of ballot information alongside polling places.
Please note that you will need a Google API key, available from the Google API console, with access to Google Civic API and (for gmap support) Google Maps. You should use a server-side key for the Google Civic API settings, and a browser-side key for the Google Maps settings.
Furthermore, please note that the Google Civic module is limited by the state-level data provided by Google Civic API. You can find at this Google Groups post.
You can read our official posting on the module, and related functionality to enhance our public website clients' online organizing efforts, here.