The smartest voter in America can be you.
Meet Robert. He knows his state’s real problems, spots when the news gets them wrong, and judges every candidate on their record, not their party. It takes him weeks. Polipad gives you the same thing in minutes.
He starts with the problems, not the politics.
He pulls the real numbers on his state from ten federal databases: crime, jobs, rent, power, health, and more. He checks them against all fifty states. Is this a real crisis, or just normal?
He reads close to a thousand news stories.
Where do the headlines match the data? Where do they exaggerate? Where do they look away?
He digs through every candidate's record.
Every vote, every bill, every donor. He's answering one question: who could actually fix what's broken?
He never asks which party they belong to.
Only one thing matters. Who gets the job done. Then, and only then, Robert votes.
Nobody can be Robert.
Ten databases. Fifty states. Thousands of articles, each weighed by who wrote it. It would take weeks and the mind of a statistician. Robert was never a real person. He’s a standard no human can reach.
Until now. Polipad does everything Robert does, in minutes.
Polipad turns anyone into Robert.
Voting is the greatest political right.
But voting without research is irresponsible. Most of us don’t have the time to thoroughly research the problems, or the candidates asking for our vote. No ordinary person can dig through a state’s data and read everything that matters about every candidate.
The barrier isn’t interest. It’s time.
We do your homework. You make the call.
Polipad is a nonprofit, nonpartisan tool. We find your state’s real problems using hard data, then measure every candidate against them, and show every source you can check. We don’t pick winners. We hand you what a careful voter would have found if they’d had the time.
Three steps. Fully sourced.
Find the real problems
We pull hard data from federal databases and score how bad each issue is in your state versus the rest of the country.
Check the story vs. the facts
We read the news coverage and show where headlines match reality, and where they don’t. We call the difference the Perception Gap.
Measure the leaders
Two honest scores: how a candidate comes across in coverage (WATT), and what their record says they can actually solve (E-Score).
Same facts for everyone. The ranking is yours.
Not every problem matters the same to every person. Tell us which issues in your state you care about most, and we’ll show you which candidate lines up best with what you want fixed. We don’t change the numbers. We just point them at your priorities.
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See your state’s real problems and the candidates running to fix them, side by side. Texas is live now; the rest of the 2026 map is rolling out.
The thinking behind the tool.
Curious how we measure leadership, or where our method falls short? We wrote it all down.