Department members bring back Vote Compass for Ontario election

September 27, 2011

Vote Compass, an online voter engagement application run by faculty and graduate students from the Department of Political Science, has returned for the Ontario provincial election. Wildly popular during the Canadian federal election campaign earlier this year, it logged nearly 2 million respondents. A new Vote Compass application has since been developed for the Ontario election and has already recorded more than 50,000 responses in the week since its launch.

Vote Compass is operated by graduate students Clifton van der Linden, Yannick Dufresne, Gregory Eady and Jennifer Hove, as well as by Professor Peter Loewen. Professor Christopher Cochrane sits on the Ontario steering committee and Professor Neil Nevitte on the project’s advisory board.

For more information on Vote Compass visit http://www.votecompass.ca. To try it for yourself visit http://cbcnews.ca/votecompass.