For politics and governance in the US, does there exist a tool that:
- Prompts the user to enter their rough location (e.g., town, county, state)
- Prompts the user to select interest keywords (e.g., housing, animal welfare, cannabis)
- Lists pending local (town / county), state, and federal level laws and regulations w.r.t. these interests
- Lists current local (town / county), state, and federal level laws and regulations w.r.t. these interests
- Includes summaries of current local (town / county), state, and federal level laws and regulations for accessibility
- Lists special interest groups that typically support/counter laws and regulations relating to these interests at the local (town / county), state, and federal level
- Lists ways in which the user could influence laws and regulations w.r.t. these interests (e.g., a step-by-step tutorial for participating in a certain election)
If this tool doesn't exist, how much value would people get from it if it existed? How difficult would it be to implement each part? (please point me to any tools / organizations that roughly fulfill the duties outlined in the bullet points)
Lastly, w.r.t. the point
- Includes summaries of current local (town / county), state, and federal level laws and regulations for accessibility
I think GPT-X might work well for summarizing and distilling legal language - has this been done already?
Upvoted on the basis of clarity, useful / mentoring tone, and the value of the suggestions. Thank you for coming back to this.
In a first-pass read, there is not much I would add, save for mentioning that I’d expect (1)-(4) to change from what they are now were they to actually be implemented in some capacity, given the complexities (jurisdictional resources, public desire, participation, etc…).
I have the Myth of The Rational Voter on my shelf unread!
If I have any sufficiently useful or interesting ideas or comments regarding your remarks, I will add them here.