Know Your Vote
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About KYV

A civic research platform built for modern voters.

Know Your Vote was created to make election research simpler, clearer, and more transparent.

Modern elections are overwhelmed with ads, social media clips, fundraising emails, and partisan noise. Voters are expected to make major decisions while information is scattered across campaign sites, interviews, voting records, news articles, and government databases.

KYV brings those sources together into one clean, research-focused experience.

Compare Before You Decide.

What KYV Does

KYV does not tell users who to vote for. Instead, it helps voters compare candidates, review public statements, access voting records, verify official election information, and understand races at the federal, state, and local level.

Compare

Review candidate profiles and issue positions side-by-side.

Verify

Trace information back to public sources whenever possible.

Decide

Use context, not campaign noise, to make your own choice.

Our Approach

Transparency

Every comparison, statement, and profile should connect back to a public source whenever possible.

Accessibility

Election research should feel understandable and usable, not overwhelming.

Independence

KYV is built to support informed civic participation, not partisan persuasion.

Source Standards

KYV may aggregate information from public and official sources. When information cannot be verified, it should be labeled accordingly rather than presented as fact.

Official campaign websites
Vote Smart
Ballotpedia
Government election databases
Public voting records
Candidate filings
Public interviews
Public statements
KYV separates official voting tools from candidate research so voters can verify registration, polling place, and ballot status without mixing that information with campaign content.

Why This Exists

Voters do not lack intelligence — they lack time.

KYV was built to reduce the friction between voters and trustworthy civic information. The goal is simple: help people research faster, compare more clearly, and vote more confidently.

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