React Web App that aims to make learning about voting fun and accessible.

Creators

Trina Chatterjee, Erika Tan, Nikita Sharma

Problem Statement

• “Residents 65 years and older are a median of seven times more likely to vote than those ages 18 to 34” (NPR)
• Reasons contributing to lower voter turnout:
  • People don’t see how these political issues affect them
  • People who aren’t that interested in politics don’t want to read numerous sources to learn about the candidate’s policies

Proposed Solution

• We wanted to make learning about politics interesting and accessible
• Our game not only makes learning more fun but also accumulates information about different candidate’s policies into one place (easy to compare/contrast policies)

Technologies Used

• React
  • JSX/HTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript
• Online photo editors
  • vectr.com
  • pixlr.com

Graphics

All the graphics* for our project were hand made using pixlr.com and vectr.com image and vector online editors

Further Improvements

• More scenarios, candidates, and a wider range of election issues covered in the game
• Have users input their own information (age, race, gender, income), so we can find specific policies/laws that might affect them
• Use NLP and crawl websites/news articles/etc. instead of researching the candidates’ policies ourselves

Demo Video

Watch our web app in action at this link.

*Except for splash page image (undraw.co)