Privacy

how2vote is anonymous by design. There is no account, no login, and no analytics or advertising trackers. The site sets no cookies, so there is no consent banner to click through.

Your answers stay on your device

Your ballot selection and answers are saved only in your browser's local storage, so you can close the tab and come back. Nothing is sent to us as you go. Clearing the site's data, or choosing “start again”, removes it.

Sharing a card

When you share your card, your answers are packed into the part of the link after the # — the URL fragment. Browsers never send the fragment to a server, so your answers are not transmitted or logged when a link is opened; the card is recomputed on the recipient's own device. Anyone with the link can see the card it encodes, so share it only with people you choose.

The optional research survey

After your card you may answer up to eight optional demographic questions. These never affect your card. If you choose to answer, the responses — plus your electorate and answers, with no name or contact details — are sent to a separate, dedicated research service to study how views map to voting records in aggregate. Every question has a “prefer not to say” option, and skipping the survey entirely changes nothing about your card. When the research service is live, its full data schema and retention policy will be published here.

Works offline

Because the quiz, the scoring and the card all run on your device, the tool works with no network connection — including opening a shared link in a polling place with no signal.

The vote data

Parliamentary voting data is sourced from They Vote For You (OpenAustralia Foundation) under the Open Database Licence and is about elected representatives, not about you.