ActiVote: Vote in Elections Reviews

The core concept is great. Better knowledge, and an ability to record your personal feelings on candidates over time is a great way to interweave tech and electoral politics.

On the other side of what ActiVote does- namely the “think”/“political matrix functions, BEWARE 2 things: 1- these are ball park assessments based on, 2- poorly/biased written responses. There is a clear left/liberal bias in the framing of answer choices that can/will make you feel a particular way about particular responses, and are disingenuous (at best) about the way in which positions/arguments from the right are made or validated.

There needs to be a comment section for questions, or at least a way to supply your own response rather than defaulting to “None of the above” when then 5pt Likert Scale of options doesn’t closely enough provide you with a choice.

I love ActiVote’s concept, & I’ve attempted to use it several times. The problem is, all the pictures make navigating ActiVote with Voiceover a nightmare. I either click on things accidentally, while I’m looking for info, or I can’t click on what I want. This problem is quite fixable. You just need to label graphics, or create hyperlinks for us. I want to educate myself before voting too. I just need help with the format.

I love the matrix and the Ranked Choice Voting aspects! Super helpful to know which candidates I align with after answering the policy questions and being able to choose my top candidates from there! The RCV part is a super cool way to see real time polling - ActiVote is exactly what our country needs right now! Amazing!!!

I love ActiVote ! It’s super helpful to have all my voting information organized, which is why I wish it had the referendums that will be on my ballot as well. In my opinion, this can be the most confusing part, as the descriptions at the polls are meant to sway you in a certain direction. ActiVote would be a great resource to learn about them!

Overall ActiVote is really well made and thought out. However, I wish you had the opportunity to rank and view not just your own state’s senators and representatives but nationwide politicians.

Amazing has everything I want but national old figures heads for Bush , Regan ,Obama , Clinton

But other that that I would also like more questions and features fun things to do for fun for example if many people have ActiVote you could create a debate and see wear you land

ActiVote is mostly accessible using the VoiceOver ScreenReader

This platform changes with the times. It’s an excellent way to find out about your candidates. Thank you so much for this!

I love ActiVote and what it stands for! Educating people and giving them the information to make their voices and values heard, no matter who and what your voting for.

Love the concept of ActiVote! It gives me a great opportunity to get educated into the next elections and the things that are important for me. The design is also great and very intuitive

You are not going to properly place anybody with a weak 4 question political placement test. Need to add many more questions for this to be sincere. A good idea, however, for an app. Will consider revising my review if this is fixed.

Anyone in the Middle or Right needs to know that ActiVote appears to me to be very left-leaning on the political spectrum.

A 4 question survey is given to show politicians that best match your political philosophy. There is no way to truly gauge an individuals political leanings in just 4 questions.

I lean heavily Right (even though I’m an Independent) and Joe Biden was chosen as a politician that I closely aligned with. NOPE! 😂

I wouldn’t vote for Joe Biden if he was the only person running.

I’ve since deleted this garbage.

Sad that you want all that personal data just to open ActiVote . Total turn off. At least serve the public good by giving local election info based on location data.

This is a Great App for a great President. Thank you sir for all you do for this country and for my family. The BEST.. and let’s keep on WINNING..

ActiVote used to be useful and easy to navigate. It is stuck in tutorial mode with pop ups that can’t be turned off unless I answer survey questions.

As somebody in involved the civic tech space I'm emphatically supportive of your app and your approach to empowering and informing citizens. Love it!

It’s helpful in deciding who to vote for.

It asked five questions and tried to put me as far Right with candidates I whole heartedly disagreed with.

I like being able to rank my picks before getting my ballot, so when I get it I can send it off immediately! The policy questions also help me think about issues I haven’t considered before.

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ActiVote is extremely Left biased.
First of all:
I'm not a Democrat.
I'm not a Republican.
I'm an American. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Our country is physically (mentally, spiritually, and ideologically) under attack and the Extreme Left is helping the enemy bring America to her knees.
Because of the way the poll questions and their available responses, ActiVote seems to have been made to help spread division among Americans, to help spread the dislike of our Founding Fathers, our Constitution, our country, our flag, and our way of life.
I for one will be deleting ActiVote.
I DO NOT like to be manipulated, by anyone, especially those who I have voted for to REPRESENT me, or those voted for by others to REPRESENT them. Our government gets their power from us, and OUR Constitution protects us when OUR government oversteps it's authority. OUR government is not "All Powerful" and it is not "The Law of The Land".
OUR Constitution is"The Law of The Land".
And everyone in OUR government has taken an OATH to preserve, Protect and Defend OUR Constitution.

Just fair warning about this Extreme Left Biased app.

It’s a good start, and it was nice to see all the candidates and information on them, and to choose in advance how I will vote.

However:
• There was no way to see your finished ballot, just pictures of who you chose. That’s not helpful in the voting booth!
• There's no way to print your choices either.
• There was no way to share your choices, except one by one.
• The way to share your individual choices (virtual lawn sign) didn't work! Nothing happens when you tap the Share button.
• There were no ballot measures listed! There are important measures on the ballot in my area, but you couldn't tell it by ActiVote !
• The questions at the last are redundant (I had to indicate four times that I was voting in person), and at the end it said that in-person voting was *tomorrow,* when in fact it's today!

Gen Z here: ActiVote is so bloated. I just wanted to know my political compass after looking at some related memes. Make the intro shorter and quicker, it’s long in length. Animations could be quicker. My generation is too ADHD, trust me.

Lol at the guy that said this is left leaning. Nah dude? Not what I’ve seen so far. Democracy is only as good as long as it’s populace is informed. Its users might be left leaning but didn’t push me any which way.

Great app but I’d like to see more on local representatives and also have the ability to search all representatives not just mine. I’d like to be able to see what other representatives out of my state stand for.

The “Bills” section showed the status of each bill (passed senate, house, or signed into law).

Could not change my password, log out, or even request my account to be closed. I couldn’t find anything on ActiVote the actually worked.

Don’t listen to the people saying they are pushing left agendas. I went in with an open mind and answered the questions honestly. It told me I’m more aligned with the Conservative Party and that’s the first time I ever heard that. When I looked into it further, they were mostly right. I feel like I’m more independent than anything but I took what they said into consideration and it makes sense. So if they were pushing an agenda, why wouldn’t they just tell me I’m democrat? Don’t let fools persuade you with opinions. Form your own. All I wish is for a open ended response for some questions but it’s hard to grade that unless it’s submitted and there’s no telling how many users ActiVote currently has. I love it though