BallotLens uses AI to aggregate public candidate data and maps it against your values. You control the criteria. Every score is transparent. Every source is auditable. No recommendations. Just clarity.
Voter guides tell you who to support. News algorithms show you who's most controversial, not most qualified. Registration tools get you to the polls but leave you alone in the booth.
The space between registering to vote and casting an informed ballot is vast, underserved, and increasingly dangerous. BallotLens fills it.
Select and weight the issues that matter to you. Climate, education, criminal justice, fiscal policy, healthcare, housing. Your framework. Your priorities. Your weights.
Voting records. Campaign finance. Public statements. Professional history. Media coverage. Continuously updated from public sources, verified and normalized.
Transparent scores showing exactly how each candidate maps to your values. Click through to raw data. Challenge any data point. Nothing hidden. Nothing weighted without your knowing.
No editorial board decides what matters. You define your values, weight your priorities, and build your own evaluation framework. Presets exist as starting points, never as defaults.
Click any number and see exactly how it was calculated. Every claim links to a source. Every weight is visible. If the data is thin, we tell you. If your criteria create an echo chamber, we flag it.
Individual voters never pay. BallotLens is civic infrastructure, not a subscription product. Revenue comes from organizations and researchers who need structured civic data.
15 million Americans between 16 and 17 will soon vote. They deserve to understand how candidates and policies already affect their schools, neighborhoods, and futures before they reach the ballot.
Democracy doesn't need another opinion. It needs infrastructure for thinking.