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Inspiration

With the upcoming Election Day on November 7th, our group realized that most people don't know what the pending issues of state even are. There is a huge disconnect between people turning 18 and becoming able to vote, and actually knowing what issues they're voting on. We think this a huge problem, so we've created a hackathon project to solve it.

What it does

Our project provides a website with blog-like posts of short summaries of pending legislative bills and laws. These summaries are created by AI, taking in the description of the proposed bill from a government website (unbiased, no news articles!) and creates a summary of the bill, reducing the language complexity and allowing anyone to understand the issue. People can rate the bias of the summary to provide 3rd party feedback so if a summary is biased, we can change it. Readers can also rate the importance of the issue, so issues with lots of importance and recent activity will be boosted to the top of the main page, showing the hot-button issues of today. Users are unique, so each person has their own vote. Users cannot interact directly, so no political dumpster fires will break out in the comment sections like many other websites.

How we built it

We built our platform using an HTML/CSS/JS frontend, a Python & Flask backend, and an SQLite database. Additionally, we implemented Auth0 to sign in users.

Challenges we ran into

Figuring out Flask and Templates, how Javascript works, SQLite database creation.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We built a fullstack application that utilizes an LLM that solves a real world problem all in less than 24 hours.

What we learned

We learned HTML/CSS/JS for the first time, Flask and Python for server and backend development, SQLite for database, and used Auth0 for the first time.