VOTE EASY

Now that we are in the midst of campaign season and everyone is growing tired of political ads, along comes a web site to help us make sense of it all.

Vote Easy is an interactive map designed to help voters identify the Congressional candidate that is most closely aligned with their views on a selection of twelve issues. Once you select your state(all 50 will be available Oct 8) and congressional district(the program will do it for you with an address), potential voters answer each question then specify how important that issue is to you. Based on those responses Vote Easy will indicate which candidate in your Congressional district is most closely aligned to your views.

Vote Easy is "created by Project Vote Smart headquartered in Philipsburg, Montana and established in 1988 in order to provide voters with accurate, unbiased information on candidates, issues and legislation.They do not accept money from any groups that have any kind of political affiliation and are comprised primarily of volunteers who spend their days tracking and inputting information for public access. "


This is a great activity for Civics classes as a tool to get students thinking about the twelve issues (Among them :Afghanistan, Taxes, Social Issues, Health Care, and Education) presented to them. After students answer all of the questions and find out which candidate was most closely aligned to their views, it would be interesting to have them take it again to see what type of answers it would take to be aligned with the other candidates.




Thanks to Diana Laufenberg for the tip!