Broadcasters, politicians and academics teamed up and put their opinions aside to produce a new project aimed at being the most accurate voter feedback tool yet.
TVNZ plans to launch Vote Compass at 6pm tonight. Academics joined the station to develop Vote Compass, with Electoral Commission funding.
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political psychologist Dr Danny Osborne said it was a "massive" new endeavour. Researchers worked with politicians to clarify where parties stood on election issues.
"We had to put our own research interests aside in the interests of being as objective as we possibly could be," Osborne said.
An anonymous survey, Vote Compass was completed online. "It gives you a graph at the end, and places you on a spectrum," TVNZ publicist Sara Cairney said.
