Policy, a company co-founded by Chris McIntyre (MPP 2018) which makes tools to help voters compare and understand election policies in New Zealand, has just launched a new website, Policy Local.
The site allows voters to enter their address and see all the elections in which they are eligible to vote, as well as compare candidates against each other on specific issues. Voters can browse with candidate names hidden to make their choices free from pre-existing biases. Policy Local covers 574 elections across the country, more than 3,500 candidates, and has published over 50,000 policies in total.
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