It’s like Tinder, but for voters. Vocativ created the online?Votr app, which allows users to learn about U.S. Senate candidates.
You answer 15 quick questions about your political beliefs and Votr will find candidates who match your views so that you can “connect.” Once you find your matches, you swipe to “love ’em or leave ’em.”
From the Huffington Post:
Votr assesses a user’s ideological orientation by asking questions about the primary color of the user’s state, the user’s educational background, past military service, worship habits and bank account, as well as issue-oriented questions about abortion, same-sex marriage, global warming, gun control and marijuana decriminalization. Other questions ask about the user’s preference for sports or the arts, dogs or cats and Beyonce or Rihanna. Each question is accompanied by an emoji symbol.
Votr’s aim is to get people talking about candidates in the upcoming election and isn’t a comprehensive voting guide. The app creator told HuffPo:
“What we wanted to do was take a lighthearted tone — this is not the HuffPost elections dashboard. It’s not to help you make a decision so much as reset your hardened point of view, your cynicism about the political process,” Vocativ Vice President of Product Elena Haliczer told HuffPost Friday. “We’re targeting people in their 20s and 30s and that’s the tenor of a lot of people’s reactions to the elections.”
The candidate profiles then come up with a fun fact about the candidates. For example, the app informs us that Kentucky’s Alison Lundergan Grimes grew up wanting to be a doctor but changed majors after she passed out while watching a carpal tunnel surgery.
This is fun and I think it would be a great interactive activity to do with kids. Watch the video below to learn more.
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