Voters can demand legislators to “Hear Their Voices” with this platform

This political climate is different; it is transformative, historic and seemingly unique. One divisive topic that demands the attention of most American audiences is the news climate contributing to polarization and lack of clarity regarding the truth. Dedicated journalists do what they can to combat falsities from spreading through tireless reporting. However, third parties also play their role in defending the truth.

One example is Hear My Voice — a legislative contact platform that serves to provide clear, truthful information about political issues and to encourage users to get in contact with their legislators and share their opinions.

Almost a year old, Hear My Voice entered the political arena right as it was beginning to heat up. The founder, Becky Kip, left her background in traditional broadcast journalism to create a platform that she hoped would do more to combat deepening polarization.

“Coming from a broadcast background, watching how news was biased during the 2016 election was really disheartening to me,” said Kip. “Viewers were presented one side of an issue but were never presented solutions or ways to manage their information.”

Hear my Voice was created to address this.

“Hear my voice was designed as a transparent environment to provide hundreds of sides on political issues,” she shares. “We provide just the issues — just the facts. We take no sides on anything, we are simply an educational tool.”

The platform is relatively simple. Viewers can choose between hundreds of different topics to read about both sides of an issue, decide where they stand and take action. By obtaining your zip code, Hear My Voice is able to easily connect you with your proper representatives via email, phone calls and twitter.

In addition to its unique role as a legislative contact platform, Hear My Voice also stands to help advocacy groups run and manage their campaigns. The platform is able to hyper target specific legislators. After educating individuals on various issues and encouraging them to take action, Hear My Voice also creates a comprehensive voter profile from provided data and is able to push specific issues related to your consumer behavior and legislative district.

Many aspects of Hear My Voice differentiate it from other legislative contact platforms. One specificity is their newest ability to perform video town halls, wherein they partner with Broadnet to extend their product to mobile phones for agencies or officials to run town halls directly through the app. This reflects their ongoing message of encouraging deeper conversation beyond partisan separations.

While already executing various capabilities extremely well, Hear My Voice is now turning to expand to offer unbiased information regarding local candidates in upcoming elections. According to Kip, voting in local elections is just as, perhaps more, important than voting for the president every four years.

Remarkably, the young company started out with small acquisition numbers and took off in popularity almost immediately. In less than a year they have grown from 0 to 30,000 members actively downloading and using their products to gain information and to participate in politics at all levels of government.

To become an investor in this organization or to contribute to its furthered success, all are invited to contribute here.

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