French voting app Elyze matches users with presidential candidates that share their values
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What would you do if your ideal presidential candidate was only a few swipes away?
PARIS -- What would you do if your ideal presidential candidate was only a few swipes away?
That's the promise of the French app Elyze, which was created by students Grégoire Gazcarra, 22, and François Mari, 19, who will participate in their first presidential election in less than three months.
Elyze is for voting, not dating, but like the popular dating app Tinder, it asks users to swipe right or left -- right to agree, left to disagree -- with more than 500 anonymous propositions. It then ranks each user's matches by affinity to each of the dozen candidates. In addition, the app offers a short explanation tab for each topic, and a third option if the user wants to pass rather than agree or disagree.
With the first round of the French presidential elections around the corner, Elyze's founders want to convince young French people to vote on April 10.
