'Know Your Candidates' tool from Google

 Google today announced the launch of a new tool called ‘Know Your Candidates’. The tool is part of Google elections 2014 platform, google.co.in/elections.
According to a company statement, the tool will allow users to get easy access to relevant information about political candidates contesting from their constituency and their current Member of Parliament. Users can check out the tool at this link here.
The tool is using information that is publicly available on MPs, candidates, and which has been put out by organisations like Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), PRS Legislative Research and Liberty Institute India.
Users can simply type in the Pin Code of their respective constituency and they will get information on their current MP. As far as other candidates are concerned, users will get information approximately one week before the polls are due to begin. Users also get to know when a city or place will go to vote. You can also simply type the name of the place, if you don’t know the Pin Code.
The tool will provide valuable information for each sitting Lok Sabha MP and contesting candidates such as their disclosed educational background, financial details and social media presence (wherever available) including video bios of the candidates provided by Ping networks.
The details are mapped onto Google Maps interface and users can zoom on their locality on the map.
Source(Text only):http://tech.firstpost.com
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