Fancy having a personalised how to vote card emailed to you, or SMSed to you on the morning of the election? Online activist group GetUp have set up a 20 question online quiz to help you identify which of your local candidates most closely reflects your values.
The questions were also posed to the candidates, and the site generates your ‘how to vote’ card based on which candidate is the closest to your results. The questions range from the war in Iraq, health and education spending, union power, indigenous issues, and same sex issues.
I’m glad to see that GetUp also encourages people to check out the Australian Electoral Commission’s website and the websites of the individual candidates. Especially since not all candidates have responded to GetUp’s survey – for example in my electorate, neither the Liberal candidate nor the Family First candidate had responded, so my “How to Vote” card puts them last. Still it’s an interesting idea and a quick and easy way to identify your local candidates, at the very least.
How Should I Vote? [GetUp]
