VoteValue
Civic transparency platform · 2024 to present · Live at votevalue.co
Nonpartisan civic transparency platform built solo. A voter types in any U.S. address and the site returns a VoteValue Index (VVI) score for every legislative district that represents them (U.S. House, U.S. Senate, state Senate, state House). Each VVI breaks down into five weighted subscores: competitiveness (35%), mobilization potential (20%), district integrity (20%), electoral leverage (15%), and race significance (10%). Real-time geospatial computation across 163,000+ precincts in all 50 states, served via a Flask backend, Leaflet.js frontend, and a Postgres database on AWS.
Beyond scores, the site includes a community-driven Marketplace where users publish proposed redistricting maps and gather petition signatures that auto-generate constituent letters. There's also the Gerrymander Guesser, a short game where you pick which of two district shapes looks more gerrymandered. The picks aggregate into a community-derived ELO ranking per district that complements pure geometric compactness measures. Most gerrymandering education tools are dense and built for academics; the Guesser is a deliberate attempt to give a casual voter a meaningful entry point in under 30 seconds.
Demoed for 10 Virginia General Assembly offices on a bipartisan basis, Congressman James Walkinshaw's office (VA-11), the Governor's STEM Education Advisory Board (recognized on the General Assembly floor alongside other student STEM projects from across the Commonwealth), and Old Dominion University's Political Science Association. Multiple candidates across several states have registered accounts on the platform. Separately, direct meetings with candidates and campaign teams in Tennessee, Florida, and New York have informed product development, including feedback that led to a planned embed feature for campaign website integration. Featured publicly by state senator Bill Stanley (R-VA).