Extreme partisanship, gerrymandered voting districts, and politicians who treat elected office more as a platform for personal wealth and power than a civic responsibility. The evidence is clear: our system is in trouble and it needs help.
The prescription? Inject democracy with clearheaded, critically thinking voters.
Our Goals
- Prime voters to think critically about candidates competing for their vote.
- Follow a variety of elections: from student governments to city councils to state and national elections, candidates and attributes may change but the democratic process is the same throughout.
- Build a system in which high school students learn to think critically about local elections and candidate attributes as part of a comprehensive civics curriculum. We need to teach civics to our children such that deliberate, ongoing participation in our democracy is the norm.
- Give candidates feedback.
- Contribute to our democratic experiment by converting nonvoting citizens into critically thinking voters.
mycandidatescorecard.org is free and easy to use. Just register, login and start rating candidate attributes in an election that’s of interest to you. You can read our suggestions for first time users here.
We are all stakeholders in democracy, and we all have a vested interest in keeping it healthy. Please participate!