Leslie Graves is the founder and president of Ballotpedia, a nonprofit online political encyclopedia.
[7][8] In 1980, Graves collected signatures to qualify the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate, Ed Clark, for a spot on the ballot.
[9] In December 2006, Graves founded the Lucy Burns Institute, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that publishes Ballotpedia.
In 2012, Graves authored a guidebook titled Local Ballot Initiatives: How citizens change laws with clipboards, conversations, and campaigns.
[13] In March 2009, when the founding editor of the Judgepedia project left the Sam Adams Alliance, a staff member from Graves' group stepped in as editor,[13] which led to the decision to cede sponsorship to the Lucy Burns Institute in July.