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I considered this as an idea for a startup. Whenever legislation like this comes up, you pull up an app on your phone and express support or opposition. Then, w
by TheEzEzz 15y ago
I considered this as an idea for a startup. Whenever legislation like this comes up, you pull up an app on your phone and express support or opposition. Then, whenever you go to vote, the app will infer which candidates you are looking at based on your location, and will show you the pluses and minuses of each candidate according to what you support/oppose.
- LukeShu 15y agoI've been thinking about that too. Mostly just a DB of who voted for what. Then you can punch in how you would like them too vote, and it does some basic best-match goodness. Although, does it even need to be a startup, I feel like this could almost be someone's weekend project. Is there a government site that info can be scraped from? [edit] searching for said data, I found www.govtrack.us, which seems to do mostly this. They seem to like the idea that others start using their data.
- Natsu 15y agoThat would be cool, actually, as a good way to help people keep tabs on what Congress is up to according to the things they support or oppose. It would be nice to have something that made some kind of report card and graded them on the things you care about, preferably with links so you could see how they voted on each thing and what the bills actually said or any responses they gave to why they voted for that, just to avoid punishing them for voting against cleverly misnamed legislation.
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