Politest is a French "voting navigator", such as "EuProfiler", awarded by the e-Democracy Forum Award 2009. This online application can determine what parties or political trends are closest. Just answer a dozen questions online or, if you're ready to pay 1.59 € to know, via its iPhone application Politest has been designed by a group of former students of Political sciences, "enthusiasts by politics and concerned about the level of abstention", as they write on their site. By analyzing what makes you feel closest a trend that another, they have developed a political positioning analysis grid that allows you to distinguish between the right and left, as well as most of the parties.
Launched in the 2007 presidential election, Politest has been visited by more than two million people.
How does it work? User may answer to a dozen questions on topics as diverse as taxes, globalization, poverty, exclusion, public services, business, religion, homosexuality, abortion, drugs, fight against crime and immigration.
If some French journalists call it a "game", "many people don't go to the polls because they don't know for who to vote", explains the creator of Politest, Laurent Cald.
The website: http://www.politest.fr/
See also:
- Can Internet help to increase voter turnout? (2010/02/20)
- 140 people have contributed to EuProfiler.eu (2009/11/19)
