ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

PollyVote

Pollyvote is like a big guessing game where people try to figure out who will win an election. Just like you and your friends trying to guess who will win a race, lots of grown-ups all around the world try to guess who will win an election.

But Pollyvote is not just a regular guessing game. It's a special game where experts use really fancy tools and knowledge to make the best guess possible. It's like if your teacher used a special tool to make a prediction about your class getting a math question right!

These experts look at lots of different things that might affect an election, like what people are saying on the internet, what the economy is doing, and how popular the different candidates are. They also use special computer programs to help them make their guess.

Once they have all of this information, they put it all together to make one big guess about who will win the election. This guess is called a "forecast." Just like you might guess who will win a race and write it down, these experts also write down their guesses for everyone to see.

But because Pollyvote uses really fancy tools and knowledge, their guess is usually more accurate than regular guesses. So if you want to know who might win an election, you can look at Pollyvote's guess and it might help you figure it out!