With a federal election looming, the Vote Compass has resurfaced to help voters explore how their views align with the election candidates. It is a civic engagement application developed by a team of social and data scientists, and its objective is to promote electoral literacy and public participation during election campaigns.
Based on responses to a brief questionnaire, Vote Compass generates an analysis of how a voter's views compare to the positions of the parties in a given election. This analysis is restricted to the specific issues in the questionnaire and may not necessarily reflect a voter's perceived political affiliation or intended vote choice.
The analysis generated by Vote Compass contains several different outputs, including a Cartesian plane and a bar graph. Each output measures something different and reflects a practical reality in which people think about politics in multiple ways. For example, some think in terms of ideology and others in terms of public policy issues. Vote Compass visualizes the results in each of these terms, leaving the voter free to decide which are most suitable for their purposes.
I completed the Vote Compass questionnaire and wasn't surprised by the results. It was leaning in the direction I thought it would.
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