How2Vote

about

description

How2Vote is an independent, non-partisan comparison tool for Australian federal elections. NOT A GOVERNMENT APP How2Vote is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or authorised by the Australian Electoral Commission, the Parliament of Australia or any other government entity, and it does not provide or facilitate government services. Answer propositions that parliament has actually voted on. The app shows how closely each party's recorded parliamentary votes match your positions — against the candidates on your ballot, in official ballot order. Then build your own voting plan: nothing is ranked for you and no preference is recommended. You author your own preference order. WORKS FULLY OFFLINE The complete dataset ships inside the app — questions, scoring and your card all work with no connection, including at a polling place with no signal. The app goes online only for what you ask it to: sending the contact form, contributing to the anonymous research if you opt in, or opening a link out to the AEC or They Vote For You. BUILT FROM THE PARLIAMENTARY RECORD Comparisons are built from recorded parliamentary votes (public Hansard data via They Vote For You), not campaign statements. Every proposition links to the parliamentary divisions behind it, so everything you are shown can be checked at the source. OFFICIAL SOURCES Every piece of electoral and parliamentary information in the app comes from these public sources, and can be checked against them. This is the complete list: - Candidates, ballot paper order, electoral divisions and election dates — Australian Electoral Commission, 2025 federal election downloads: https://www.aec.gov.au/election/fe25/downloads-statistics.htm - Electoral division boundaries used for the maps — Australian Electoral Commission, electoral boundaries GIS downloads: https://www.aec.gov.au/Electorates/gis/gis_datadownload.htm - The parliamentary record the vote comparisons are drawn from (Hansard divisions) — Parliament of Australia: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard - The compiled division-by-division voting records the app actually reads — They Vote For You, by the OpenAustralia Foundation: https://theyvoteforyou.org.au PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up. Your answers and weights stay on your device. NEUTRAL BY CONSTRUCTION The interface is strictly two-tone, so match quality is never encoded as party colour. The scoring method is public, deterministic and reproducible, and the app is open source under AGPL-3.0-or-later. https://github.com/National-Digital/how2vote.au Authorised by General Consulting Services Pty Ltd as trustee for the Australian Business Trust, trading as National Digital, Gold Coast, Queensland.

publisher

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first seen

2026-09-17T22:32:17.831473+00:00

last event

2026-10-18 09:14 UTC

website

https://how2vote.au

install

zapstore.dev or any Zapstore-compatible client

topics

#science & education

source & build

repository

https://github.com/national-digital/how2vote.au

arch flags

android-arm64-v8a

manifest

missing

releases (kind 30063)

8 releases indexed; latest 1.9.5.

version	channel	released	event
1.9.5	main	2026-10-22 18:44 UTC	434e3211…
1.9.1	main	2026-10-18 09:14 UTC	38921eec…
1.4.13	main	2026-10-16 21:33 UTC	41ad4cba…
1.4.11	main	2026-10-15 16:59 UTC	6dc9cab9…
1.4.4	main	2026-10-12 14:11 UTC	85a7bc27…
1.4.3	main	2026-10-08 09:22 UTC	e5ea9003…
1.3.28	main	2026-09-19 16:44 UTC	0136d903…
1.3.23	main	2026-09-16 12:48 UTC	1cb15324…

assets & verification

Every app, release and asset event is schnorr-verified (NIP-01 id + signature) before it enters the catalog, and assets are content-addressed by sha256. We subscribe read-only to the catalog relay — never write to it.

1.9.5 — au.how2vote.app_109005000.apk

sha256

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size

10.5 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a

version code

109005000

apk cert sha256

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download

au.how2vote.app_109005000.apk

1.9.1 — au.how2vote.app_109001000.apk

sha256

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size

10.4 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a

version code

109001000

apk cert sha256

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download

au.how2vote.app_109001000.apk

1.4.13 — au.how2vote.app_104013000.apk

sha256

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size

10.2 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a

version code

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apk cert sha256

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download

au.how2vote.app_104013000.apk

1.4.11 — au.how2vote.app_104011000.apk

sha256

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size

10.2 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a

version code

104011000

apk cert sha256

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download

au.how2vote.app_104011000.apk

1.4.4 — au.how2vote.app_10404000.apk

sha256

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size

10.2 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a

version code

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apk cert sha256

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download

au.how2vote.app_10404000.apk

1.4.3 — au.how2vote.app_10403000.apk

sha256

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size

10.2 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a

version code

10403000

apk cert sha256

617efd39535bb3af10ce0778b6f20ee4597f221baeb3f3e07547bfcc1ac7d213

download

au.how2vote.app_10403000.apk

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