Congress Match - Does your Representative (or Senator) represent you?
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#2Seems kind of useless to put it behind a paywall. Has anyone made something similar that anyone can use?
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#3Voted on a few of these things and the percent of support surprised me. I wonder what group of people keep skewing these polls. I know online polls aren't anywhere near accurate, but the percents still surprised me.
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#4seems kind of simple, the answer would always be NO!
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#5"tocomment" - what do you mean?
there's no paywall.
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#6"tocomment" - what do you mean? there's no paywall.
I also run smack-dab into a 'create a popvox account' box. Nothing on bugmenot, and definitely not something i'd bother to create an account for.
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#7Voted on a few of these things and the percent of support surprised me. I wonder what group of people keep skewing these polls. I know online polls aren't anywhere near accurate, but the percents still surprised me.
Yeah, seems pretty skewed right/conservative in the few bills I voted on. I have seen this phenomenon before, for example in Votizen, where a lot of well organized Ron Paul supporters are some of the earliest adopters of online political tools.
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#8Seems kind of useless to put it behind a paywall. Has anyone made something similar that anyone can use?
It's not a paywall. It's free.
Here's how it works: you use PopVox to communicate with Congress, sending support or oppose messages which are publicly tallied so all can see which way any given Congresscritter's distric was leaning. This tool then shows you, bill by bill, whether your two senators and congressperson voted the way you told them to through PopVox.
If you contact them some other way, PopVox can't possibly know that (nor can anyone but your congresscritter, so there's no accountability), so it's useless without an account.
Re: Congress Match - Does your Representative (or Senator) represent you?
#9"tocomment" - what do you mean? there's no paywall.
I also run smack-dab into a 'create a popvox account' box. Nothing on bugmenot, and definitely not something i'd bother to create an account for.
If you and ten other people shared a BugMeNot account, that'd mean your opinions and those ten others would all be grouped as one user, meaning it wouldn't ACTUALLY represent your views. Also, Congress requires your REAL name and your REAL address to contact them, otherwise the Congresscritters' online forms reject the email as being not from their constituent.
Re: Congress Match - Does your Representative (or Senator) represent you?
#10Voted on a few of these things and the percent of support surprised me. I wonder what group of people keep skewing these polls. I know online polls aren't anywhere near accurate, but the percents still surprised me.
Yeah, seems pretty skewed right/conservative in the few bills I voted on. I have seen this phenomenon before, for example in Votizen, where a lot of well organized Ron Paul supporters are some of the earliest adopters of online political tools.
So get your preferred groups to make use of the handy widgets PopVox makes available for easily contacting Congress on whatever their important-bill-of-the-moment is. https://www.popvox.com/services/widgets
(You can embed them in your personal homepage too. It's free. I've got an anti-SOPA one on my homepage.)