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BallotWatch
See how your representatives actually vote
Look up your senators and representative, review congressional voting records, browse bills with source-linked explanations, and follow public legislative data.
BallotWatch came out of something that had been bothering me for a while: we live in a culture that's absolutely saturated with political opinion, but strangely starved of political record. Everyone has takes. Almost nobody, myself included, honestly could tell you how their own representative voted last week, or what Congress actually passed this month.
And it's not because the information is secret. It's all public: every roll-call vote, every bill, every campaign contribution. It's just scattered across half a dozen government sites and written like it's designed not to be read. A single bill can run hundreds of pages of legal cross-references. So we outsource our understanding to headlines and hot takes, and the actual record goes unread.
BallotWatch is my attempt to close that gap:
- Type your address → meet your representatives (no account needed)
- See every vote they cast — real roll calls, on the record
- Read any bill in plain English — this is where AI earns its keep. It takes the hundreds of pages of legalese and tells you what the bill actually does, in a paragraph
- Follow the money — campaign contributions, from FEC data
One thing I cared a lot about: it's deliberately non-partisan by design. Party affiliation is a small text label, not a color-coded identity. No spin, no scoring, no "this bill is good/bad." Just the record, made readable.
I'd genuinely love to hear what you'd want from a tool like this, especially: what's the one thing about Congress you've always wished you could look up but never bothered to dig for?
Thanks for checking it out
About BallotWatch on Product Hunt
“See how your representatives actually vote”
BallotWatch was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 24 upvotes and 24 comments, placing #24 on the daily leaderboard. Look up your senators and representative, review congressional voting records, browse bills with source-linked explanations, and follow public legislative data.
On the analytics side, BallotWatch competes within Politics, Analytics, GitHub and Political news — topics that collectively have 218.9k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how BallotWatch performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted BallotWatch?
BallotWatch was hunted by Spencer Hoberman. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Spencer Hoberman