BallotFit
Nonpartisan · unofficial · nothing stored

Your ballot, fitted to your beliefs.

Answer short agree/disagree statements — about ten minutes — and get an alignment report for every contest and issue on your real November ballot, with the reasoning and the math shown.

No candidate or party names until your results, so nothing can nudge your answers.

Start — Greater ClevelandNovember 3, 2026 general election How it works ↓
01 — BLIND

No names until your report

You answer on substance; the matching happens after. No candidate or party names appear anywhere in the questionnaire — so nothing can nudge your answers.

02 — PRIVATE

Nothing stored, ever

Your answers live only in your browser and vanish when you close the page. No accounts, no tracking of your responses, nothing sent anywhere.

03 — AUDITABLE

Every score inspectable

Every weight, evidence grade, formula, and source is visible, per question. If you think a candidate is coded wrong, you can see exactly why we coded it that way.

How it works

Ten minutes, four moves

Each topic is asked three different ways — one states the opposite view — so the tool can check its own reliability, not just your mood.

STEP 1

Answer

Short statements, one at a time. Tap agree or disagree and it advances. Neither is a real answer; skip means you'd rather not weigh in.

STEP 2

Weight

Say what matters most to you, and flag any must-agree issues — after answering, so nothing primes you.

STEP 3

See your fit

An unofficial alignment ballot for every contest and measure — with the topics that drove each result, how confident it is, and where your own answers pulled in opposing directions.

STEP 4

Revise anything

Change any answer afterward and watch every result update live. The tool even shows which single answers would flip a result.

Find where you actually stand — then see who stands there with you.

Most election quizzes measure your party and hand it back to you. BallotFit starts from what you believe — asked carefully enough to catch even your own contradictions — and only then looks at who on your actual ballot has publicly, verifiably stood where you stand.

Choose your region

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Greater Cleveland, Ohio

November 3, 2026 general election · governor, U.S. Senate, U.S. House, statewide issue, county levies

Other regions may follow. Each one takes real research — the certified ballot, the local issues, and evidence-graded positions for every candidate — so we'd rather do few regions carefully than many loosely.

What BallotFit is

A measure of alignment: how closely each candidate's documented positions — platforms, votes, direct statements, each with an evidence grade and a source — match the views you stated.

When two candidates land close, it says "similarly aligned" instead of forcing a winner. When a candidate hasn't published enough positions to score, it says "insufficient evidence — a gap in their published record, not a judgment." When your own answers conflict, it tells you that too.

What it is not

Not an endorsement, a prediction, or advice. Not affiliated with any party, campaign, government, or election authority.

Positions are coded from public evidence and stamped with a coding date; candidates can and do change positions — always verify with your county board of elections' official sample ballot before voting.

Questions

Fair questions, straight answers

Is this partisan?
No — structurally. Questions never mention parties or candidates; every statement carries its own cost; the opposing view always gets its strongest fair phrasing; roughly a third of the statements argue the opposite direction; and the full scoring matrix is published inside the tool so anyone can audit it.
How are candidates scored?
Only from solid evidence: official votes and actions, detailed current platforms, or repeated specific public statements — each with its source shown and an evidence grade. Never from party, endorsements, or vibes.
What if a candidate hasn't taken a position?
They're marked unknown on that topic, and it counts against their coverage score. Silence is never scored as agreement, disagreement, or centrism.
Do you store my answers?
No. Nothing is stored or transmitted — refresh the page and it's gone. There are no accounts and no analytics on your responses.
Can the results be wrong?
They can be stale — positions change — and they can't measure competence, integrity beyond what you weight yourself, or strategic questions like control of a chamber. Every report says so, with its coding date.
My city isn't here.
Greater Cleveland is the first region. Others may follow — each requires the certified ballot, the local issues, and evidence-graded positions for every candidate, researched properly.