With the 2025 Philippine Midterm Elections approaching, finding the right candidates to vote for is crucial. Balota simplifies this journey!

Balota is a web-based, AI-powered ballot generator designed to help Filipino voters make informed decisions through:

• 🔍 Comprehensive Candidate Browsing - Explore candidates in both national and local positions
• 📊 Background Information - Get detailed profiles on candidates, including past experience and controversies
• ⚠️ Scandal Highlighting - Easily identify candidates involved in past scandals
• 📝 Personalized Ballot Creation - Add and remove candidates to create your personalized voting plan

1. Visit Balota
2. Browse candidates by position or location
3. Click on candidates to view their detailed profiles
4. Add preferred candidates to your personalized ballot
5. Print or save your ballot for reference on election day

• Frontend: Next.js, React, TailwindCSS
• UI Components: Shadcn/ui
• Database: PostgreSQL via Supabase
• Hosting: Vercel
• Data Source: Candidate data is scraped from the official COMELEC candidate list

Candidate information is gathered using custom Python scripts from the official COMELEC list of candidates.

🔗 Python Extractor Scripts: github.com/Towphe/comelec-candidates-extractor

Contributions are welcome! Whether it's improving the UI, adding new features, or enhancing data accuracy, your help is appreciated.

This project is open source and available under the MIT License.

Made with ❤️ by Towphe