A Simple Idea to improve the Process of educating Voters
Hi, I want to address an issue that I have recognized in the world of politics. If you’re reading this it’s September 15th 2019. And more than likely most of your friends and family co-workers and colleagues who are potentially voting Americans are checked out of the voting process. They don’t know who this candidate is they don’t know who that person takes donations from they don’t know what that candidate stands for. They may stubbornly believe that candidate x is the guy because you voted for him and 2000 whenever and that means we’re going to stick with that guy. I have a solution to this, a tool to educate voters. In an easy and palatable way. First things first we build a machine learning algorithm or AI or something that goes through YouTube videos and archive footage for each of the candidates. It looks for every single time a candidate has mentioned a subject word. So you might have something like teachers, or abortion, or Iraq, or Medicare for all. The system searches for those words and then promotes these things to a human who vets it to make sure a topic is being covered and not just mentioned. Then we tie this back-end information to website that lets you select the topic your interested in and then shows you all the candidates who have various talking points on those topics. It would take some work to properly vet but I think within a few months we could have something together that covers candidates independent opinions about topics and times they’ve mentioned those topics and actually discussed them. Let me get your thoughts. sorry in advance for any typos or weird stuff, I did this all through voice dictation on my phone. Thank you in advance fellow educated early political process observers.