"iVote" from OGM

Online decision aid for the National Council election

The opinion research institute OGM is offering an online tool called "iVote" for the National Council elections on September 29th to help voters decide. At www.ivote.at, eligible voters can compare their views on various issues with those of the parties and indicate how important these issues are to them.

As a result, the online tool provides participants with a ranking of which parties best match their own ideas.

Tool was also used in the EU elections
"142,000 people already took part in the European elections in June," explained OGM CEO Wolfgang Bachmayer: "That corresponds to three percent of all EU election participants." According to its own information, "iVote" is financed without external funding. Reinhard Heinisch, Director of the Institute of Political Science at the University of Salzburg, who has been a member of the OGM team since the beginning of the year, was instrumental in developing the program.

According to the OGM, participation in "iVote" - go to the website here - is anonymous and free of charge. The information is evaluated statistically, but it is not possible to draw conclusions about individual persons, it said.