Vote Compass: Data reporting FAQ

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Vote Compass: Data reporting FAQ

The ABC's Vote Compass tool provides an unprecedented look at the views of the Australian electorate. When Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called the federal election for July 2, the ABC immediately launched Vote Compass. Vote Compass data is weighted by geography, gender, age, educational attainment, occupation, and religion to ensure the sample's composition reflects that of the actual population of Australia according to Census data and other population estimates. Vote Compass does not make its protocols in this regard public so as not to aid those that might attempt to exploit the system, but among standard safeguards such as IP address logging and cookie tracking, it also uses time codes and a series of other measures to prevent users from gaming the system.

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