About Vugol Me

American elections run on information that is fragmented, hard to verify and hard to reach.

• The ballot is bigger than the coverage. Voters choose between candidates for a dozen or more offices, from Congress to the county commission and the school board. Most of those races get little or no news coverage, and the official records are scattered across 50 state election offices, thousands of county websites and federal filings.
• Polling numbers are quoted as fact but rarely checkable. Averages mix pollsters of very different quality, and low-quality or invented polls have reached widely cited averages. Readers usually cannot see which polls went in, or recompute the result.
• Reliable data is hard to reach. Much of it sits behind paywalls, inside partisan framing or in spreadsheets few people open, while the practical questions (am I registered, what is the deadline, where do I vote) send people across many separate sites.

Vugol Me brings the whole ballot into one place and holds every number to a standard anyone can check.

• For voters: look up the races and candidates on your ballot, from Congress to county offices, plus deadlines, a polling-place lookup and a fill-in mail registration form for every state at vugol.me/vote.
• For journalists and researchers: sourced, citable data, free embeddable charts and maps, a daily early-vote tracker built from official state files, and averages anyone can recompute from the published release. See data and API.
• For campaigns: every candidate has a profile built from public records, free to claim, with a ready-made poster and QR code to share.
• For educators and civic groups: nonpartisan, plain-language pages and printable materials that help people take part.

Today the platform covers more than 170,000 candidate profiles across federal, state and local offices, races in more than 2,000 counties, and a voting guide for all 50 states and DC.

Polling averages get quoted as fact, and that makes them a target. Fake pollsters with plausible names have successfully placed invented numbers into widely read averages. Vugol Me was built in response: every pollster starts in quarantine, visible but excluded, until a human has verified the organization actually exists, publishes methodology, and answers for its work.

1. A poll arrives as a raw document, content-addressed and kept.
2. Staff review the transcription against the pollster’s own publication.
3. Approved results enter a normalized record; only verified pollsters’ results are eligible for aggregation.
4. The aggregate is computed by a versioned, published model and frozen as an immutable release with a checksum. Anyone can recompute the number from the release manifest.

The full method, including how partisan-sponsored polls are down-weighted and shared samples collapsed, is on the methodology page. The rules for adding, excluding and correcting sources, and the response times we hold ourselves to, are on the editorial process page.

Candidate profiles are sourced from public government records (the FEC for federal candidates), reviewed before publication, and carry the provenance of every datapoint. Candidates can claim their profile; anything they add themselves is always labeled campaign-provided and never mixes with sourced facts.

Signed-in visitors can vote in an open Vugol race poll for every race. Those are self-selected votes, they are labeled as non-scientific everywhere they appear, and they never touch the aggregates.

Founded by Dr. Simón Dhungana.

Vugol Me builds its own models instead of borrowing anyone else’s. The Vugol Vector calls every race from verified polls, past results, money and the national environment. Vugol Tensor measures how far any call can miss, with ranges and the chance of control. Attention tracks the news and online noise around a race. Each model is versioned, documented in public and recomputable from stored inputs, and we publish how each one did against the results, misses included.

The responsible editor is reachable at hello@vugol.me; that address also handles support, pollster verification, profile claims and press. The site uses only aggregate visit analytics, disclosed in the privacy policy.

Vugol Me is building its leadership team: business development, finance, political and campaign partnerships, engineering and marketing. See the roles and apply. Hiring is timed to our next financing.

Investors whose portfolio focus aligns with independent, verifiable election data can start a conversation. Reporters will find our fact sheet, approved descriptions, logo and press contact in the media kit.

• Subscriptions are the only revenue. Anyone may subscribe on identical, published terms, including campaigns, parties and committees. The terms of use disclose this.
• No sponsorships, no paid placement, no advertising. No rating, roster entry, poll verification or release can be bought, and none is sold.
• Subscribers never influence ratings, rosters or releases. Who pays has no channel into what is published. Editorial decisions follow the written editorial process, and every published number carries the model version and inputs that produced it.

Errors are corrected on the record: a superseding release is issued and the earlier one stays visible, marked superseded. How to report one and how quickly we answer is on the corrections page.