Angelina Chen, Amy Wang
View a demo of our project here! https://youtu.be/9WfTZi9KiVw
With the 2024 presidential election – a historical and critical event – coming up in less than a month, we noticed that there was a surplus of election information on the internet, but a lack of organization. At a more targeted level, even less people are informed about their state senators and representatives, despite their direct impact on voting issues. To address this issue we created Vota, which aims to centralize representative information for voters – helping to streamline the process of making informed election decisions.
To clone this repository, run in a terminal:
git clone https://github.com/angelinaa-chen/vota
Within the project directory, you can run:
npm start
which runs the app in the development mode. Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in your browser!
At the bottom of our homepage, users are prompted to enter their hometown state abbreviation:
Upon entering a valid state abbreviation (in this case, Indiana), users are sent to a page displaying a list of state representatives and senators of the specificed state.
For each representative, you can learn more about their party affiliation, district number, respective chamber, and start year.
Additionally, a (very bare-bones) chatbot is also provided to ask additional questions pertaining to representatives, voting, and election information, which aims to answer any questions that may arise.
Through these functionalities, we hope to provide an easily accessible and centralized method of learning about state representatives and elections! :)
For this project, we used the Congress.gov API which can be found at: https://gpo.congress.gov/#/member/member_list_by_state
View out Devpost submission here: https://devpost.com/software/vota-one-vote-one-voice
This project was made for HackHarvard 2024. :)