A group of us (democracy-passionate friends) just launched OpenBallot, a platform of 40+ voter guides. The goal is to save you research time by showing you all the endorsements and explanations you care about in one place. You can use this to fill out your ballot, which is private by default. You can then share with friends or publish your views on our platform.<p>The site is our first prototype; if you're in SF, please try it and share your feedback! We're hoping to use this to eventually scale to all over the country.
How can people contribute new guides?<p>I've thought about doing basically this exact project a number of times. The biggest thing I'd wanna change is to not focus on the guides so much. Lots of organizations are shy about making an endorsement so guides can often be pretty barebones. A much more useful view, imo, would be to allow users to select a number of voter guides, and then view a full ballot. With badges by the choices endorsed by whatever guides they have activated
This is really cool and I appreciate the concept. I was pleased to see a friend’s voter guide listed however I was sad to see that the opinions that he had thoughtfully articulated in the email version of his guide are not present here. This is really a loss since he had provided good reasons. If I am being honest, this tool is only helpful if it offers detailed justifications for every position.
So this is a directory of partisan voter guides?<p>Sorry. I moved from CA to NY and that’s all we have here. It’s a nightmare to just figure out what’s on the ballot.<p>Californians have an excellent non-partisan voter guide for over 25 years:<p><a href="https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/" rel="nofollow">https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/</a>
Nice idea. Oregon has fantastic voter pamphlets with candidate-supplied bios, as well as for/against ads that people can buy.<p>Sample: <a href="https://www.washingtoncountyor.gov/elections/current-voters-pamphlet" rel="nofollow">https://www.washingtoncountyor.gov/elections/current-voters-...</a>
Super neat!<p>A count at the top of each item would be cool (ie quick glance see counts of yes / no, maybe shaded by party affiliation?)<p>On mobile I wouldn’t miss follow profile / like comment, at least as a casual user when scrolling through a prop.