Election Preparation and Reflection: CBC Vote Compass

    The CBC vote compass was a very interesting and fun tool to see what side of the political scale I was leaning on. I thought it was a great idea to show others which topics were similar to the thoughts of each political parties. The website split the categories into five different parts, questions, importance, parties, leaders, and demographics. These categories would show me a better understanding of which side I was on the political scale.
    The questions were very simple, but yet it was very hard to decide what I thought for each one. For example, one question asked how much should the BC government invest in renewable energy resources? First of all, I had no idea how much the BC government invested in this enery renewable resource in the beginning, so it was difficult for me to pick an answer for it. Another question that threw me off were the question relating to the First Nations people. I did not have any deep knowledge on what the regulations on the natural resources were for them. Many of the questions that I did not know how to answer, I either answered as neutral or I don't know. The only questions that really caught my attention were about education, budget and taxes, and labor relations. I guessed this is due to the fact that I am a student at the moment.
    They had a page about the different political parties that made up this election. I really had no clue who these people were and what they did. I basically skipped all the question relating to this topic because I had no idea, who I they were and I still do not know. I thought it would have been better if the website gave a little synopsis on who and what these political parties were and how they differ from each other. They had a category of the leaders of the political parties, but still there was no information to decide which order I should have placed them.
    In the end, the website showed me a result that I leaned on the second quadrant, a little bit to the left of the middle of the graph. I learned that I leaned more onto the NDP side by 20%. The vote compass did not actually help me be able to decide which party to choose. Without outside research, I do not think with this information I am ready to decide and favor a party. I was satisfied with the questions, but the whole who-the-leaders-are was a totally blank out. Overall the website was very fun, yet it would have been nice if they actually talked about the different parties instead of knowing which side I leaned towards more.