New app will help you decide who to vote for today
DON’T know who to vote for today? A new app will help you decide.
Just in time for the Senedd election, a new voting app, the first ever to be developed in Wales, has been launched to help people work out which parties to vote for today.
As many as one in three people will not yet have decided how to vote, and campaigners are concerned many won’t vote at all if they don’t feel inspired by any of the political parties.
“Vote Your Values” has drawn on the priorities of over 30 Welsh civil society networks to help voters identify which political party best matches their values for polling day on May 6.
The app has been developed by Wellbeing Economy Wales (WEALL Cymru), the Welsh branch of the global Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEALL) which works towards an economy that promotes human and ecological wellbeing.
“The Covid pandemic has been a traumatic experience for all of us,” explained Duncan Fisher, co-convenor of WEALL Cymru.
“However, it is clear from surveys all over the world that people want something better than what we had before; they want an economy that looks after us as people better and protects our planet.”
To find out what that economy might look like, WEALL Cymru surveyed the networks of Welsh organisations which make up its membership.
They include business and farming organisations, women’s and youth groups, environmental and community organisations, movements representing ethnic minorities and many others, collectively representing thousands and thousands of Welsh citizens.
These organisations fed back what was important to them ahead of the election and these priorities, expressed as values not specific policies, have been matched against the manifestos of the different political parties.
Voters using the app are given a choice of issues they wish to prioritise.
These are organised under the Wellbeing Goals of the Future Generations Act - so there is a clear link to the Welsh law which is supposed to underpin all Welsh Government policy.
Vote Your Values can be found at WEALL Cymru (voteyourvalues.wales)