About Voter Choice

Get your ballot answers ready before you go vote, so you're in and out. The hard part is figuring out your answers. That's the part we help with.

Look up what's on your ballot, see what each candidate has actually done, make your picks, print them, and zip through the booth. 🗳️

1. Grab your sample ballot. Not sure where it is? Enter your address on our site and we'll point you to the official page that has it. Sometimes that's your county, sometimes your state.
2. Upload it, or just enter your address to see your Congress races.
3. Read up and make your picks. Spend as little or as much time as you want.
4. Print your list and take it with you. No account needed.

Free: Your Congress races and your current members of Congress. See how they voted on bills, whose money they've taken, and red flags like reported stock trades. You can even compare candidates with names and parties hidden, then reveal them when you're ready. Some data is missing in places, and we tell you when it is.

Your whole ballot (one time, not a subscription): Upload your county's blank sample ballot and we research every race and measure on it, state and local too. We count your races for free first. Then you see the price and how long it'll take before you pay: $2, plus $0.25 a page and $0.10 per candidate or measure.

Bonus: When you pay, the share box starts ticked. Untick it if you don't want to share. If you share, the next person with the same ballot gets it free, so you make voting easier for someone in your community too. 👏 We share only the races and research. Never your name, address or picks.

I'm Muxin, the founder. Honestly? I was one of the least political people I knew.

Then one Texas summer, my apartment's management let the air conditioners go, and a lot of them broke in the heat. It just broke me. Last Christmas, my parents told me they pay more in taxes every year, and yet there's garbage on their streets and things keep getting worse. Something about that conversation made me go, wow, that's it. Society felt like it was going wrong, and I didn't know what to do about it.

Then I found a study by Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page. They looked at about 1,800 policy questions over 20 years. What average people wanted had almost no effect on what became law. What wealthy donors and business groups wanted did.

I'm not a lawyer. I can't get money out of politics. But maybe we can make better choices with our own votes. Most people don't have time to research every candidate. They have families and jobs. They can't be political analysts on the side.

And most civic tech is built for campaigns, to help them figure out what to say to get your vote. Where's the tech for voters? So I built it. That's why we show what candidates have actually done, and who's paying them, not what they say.

As featured in Forbes.

I've been a product manager for over 10 years. Most recently I built digital products for customers at NRG, one of the biggest energy companies in the U.S.: Everything from managing your electricity to smart thermostats, smart home, and machine-learning recommendation engines. I worked side by side with legal, engineering, design and operations, under real privacy rules. People don't even want you touching their smart thermostat. So I learned to treat people's data with care, and I built Voter Choice the same way.

That's why the free stuff needs no account, your picks stay on your device, and every fact links to where it came from.

AI chatbots can make up answers, and you don't know how good their sources are. So here's exactly where we use AI, and where we don't.

Not AI: The facts. Votes come from Congress.gov and GovTrack. Money comes from public FEC and IRS filings. Red flags are fixed rules, like missed votes and stock trades. No AI opinions. That was on purpose.

AI helps with three things:

• Researching your whole ballot. Search tools find pages about each race. Then AI sorts out which sources we trust and summarizes what they say. The sources are official government sites, recorded votes, campaign websites and trusted news outlets like AP and NPR. We block sites like Facebook, Reddit, WordPress and Substack. Every fact quotes its source word for word, with a link, so you can check for yourself.
• Reading your uploaded ballot. AI reads your blank sample ballot to find the races and measures on it. That's why it has to be blank!
• Some bill summaries. They're written from the Library of Congress's own summaries, in plain words.

Never AI: Telling you who to vote for. Red flags. Vote and money numbers.

Building the site: Yes, I used AI tools to help build it. I design every screen and check features by hand, and we run tests and quality checks all the time. If something's wrong or could be better, tell me. Requests from people using it come first.

No one can buy influence. We don't take money with strings attached: No investors, no ads, no corporate sponsors, and no money from parties, PACs or campaigns. No one can pay to change what we show. If we ever take something like a nonpartisan grant, the funder gets no say in how the site works or what it shows.

As little as we can. Here's the whole list.

What we store, only if you use that feature:

• Your email: Only if you sign up for updates, become a Founding Member, or buy ballot research. We use it to send what you asked for. Unsubscribe any time.
• Payment records: Stripe takes your card. We never see your full card number. We keep a record of what you bought for at least 3 years, because tax and legal rules require it.
• Your uploaded ballot file: AI services (Anthropic and OpenAI) read it to find your races. We delete the file within 30 days. Please upload a blank sample ballot, never one you've filled in!
• Shared research, unless you untick the box: The races on that blank ballot and what we found about them. Never your name, address or picks.
• Basic site stats: Which pages get visited. Never your name, email or picks.
• Basic security records: counters tied to your IP address, to stop abuse.

What we DO NOT store:

• ❌ Your picks. They stay in your browser tab and erase when you close it, after 15 minutes of no activity, or when you tap "Start over." (If you ask us to email you a PDF of your picks, we use them to make the PDF and send it. We don't keep your picks or your email address afterward.)
• ❌ Your street address. Lookup services (like the U.S. Census) use it to find your districts, and we don't keep it.
• ❌ Your full card number.
• ❌ Your name, if you just use the free stuff. No account needed.
• ❌ Ad trackers. None.

We never sell your data or share it with other users. The only exceptions are services we need to run the site, all listed in our Privacy Policy. Want something deleted? Just ask, and we'll answer within 45 days.

Some voter sites say in their privacy policy that they may sell your info. Ours says we never will. Full details: Privacy · Terms

You shouldn't have to take our word for it.

• Every vote, dollar and research fact links to its source.
• Where data comes from: Sources.
• See something wrong? Email support@voterchoice.vote with the source. We check it against the official record and fix it.

Pick the issues you care about, and we email you when your members of Congress vote on them. $36 a year. Membership starts by January 31, 2027. If it isn't live by then, we refund every payment. See what you get →

Nope! I'm still building it and testing the idea. Ideas and pushback help a ton. 🙌

Email support@voterchoice.vote, or message me directly on Substack or LinkedIn.