Toronto Company’s New App Aims to Help US Voters Assess Polling Station Conditions

A voter stands on a social distance marker outside the Washington County Election Center in Hagerstown, Md., on Oct. 26, 2020, for the first day of in-person early voting. Colleen McGrath/The Herald-Mail via AP

WASHINGTON, Wash.—Voters in the United States are shattering turnout records despite long lineups, fear of civil unrest and the dangers of COVID-19—and a Canadian company is doing its part to protect Americans from the perils of casting a ballot.

Glimpse Social is a free smartphone app that aims to harness the power of crowdsourcing to help voters gauge conditions at any of the more than 200,000 polling stations in the U.S. before heading out to vote.