A personalised helper for voters in Indian Elections for only viewing information relevant to them for casting a vote.
Most people who vote in India are not aware of anything related to the candidates they vote for. In recent years, assembly elections in India have turned into USA-like presidential elections where voters just vote for a political party instead of voting for a candidate. The aim of this project is to create a very easy way to see personalized relevant information about all eligible candidates related only to matters that the voter cares about.
This is a complete FOSS project, which means that it includes the backend as well as the frontend for the creation of this service. Although, we do not want to restrict the utility of this application to a certain form of product. Hence, we have created an independent REST API backend which can be used with any frontend.
Hopefully, this backend API will be used to create chatbots, Android/iOS/KaiOS apps, websites, Alexa Skills etc. Consequently, any issues, pull requests etc. related to the backend API must have the label api and the issues, pull requests etc. related to any form of graphical frontend must have the gui label.
The API is hosted on Serverless Framework using AWS Lambda and DynamoDB. The code (and README) for the same can be found in the api.
As of now (May 2021), there is no work done on the frontend. Please feel free to fork this repository, add a new folder for a new frontend, like android, fb_messenger_bot, alexa or web, to start building such a GUI for end-users to be able to fully utilize this program.
Please understand that by contributing to this repository, you are not only helping someone make a more informed decision, you are also saving democracy in India. You are making this world a better place for billions of Indians, born in every generation forever.
If you ever face a conflict regarding any decision related to this project, please read the Constitution of India and try to follow it as closely as possible, irrespective of what other laws say. Understand the principles of the forefathers of our nation and make sure that those principles are upheld in this democracy that they have established.
- To get motivated, I recommend learning about the life and contributions of Aaron Schwartz. This movie, The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz is a great source for the same.