github.com/shreyas-satish/govote.git

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General Elections are soon coming up. Bangalore’s Migrant population is
[drastically under-represented][missing-voters]
in the voting demographic. This website is an attempt to fix this.

#### Credits {#credits}

- The BBMP ward map used comes from the [OpenCity project](https://data.opencity.in/dataset/bbmp-wards-delimitation-2023).
- The design uses [PaperCSS](https://www.getpapercss.com/) under the ISC License.
- The code was hurriedly written using help from ChatGPT.
- The website is hosted on Netlify, and built using Jekyll.
- The list of constituencies and districts (as per Form 8) was directly scraped from the ECI Website using their API.

#### Contribute

- Share the site with your friends and family.
- Contributions are welcome [on GitHub](https://github.com/blrvote/blr.vote)

[missing-voters]: https://www.thehindu.com/data/data-30-crore-missing-voters-in-india-mostly-young-urban-or-migrants/article66485421.ece