Own project · Saeima election · 2026
Every candidate in the 2026 election, what they own, owe, did and promise, in one searchable file.
All of it is public and none of it is usable: asset declarations in one registry, voting records in another, manifestos in a third, polling somewhere else again. Nobody cross-references four sources for 1434 people before voting.
So it was joined once, properly, and put behind a search box. The site argues nothing. The homepage says so: mēs rādām datus, secinājumus izdari tu. We show the data, you draw the conclusions.
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Asset declarations from the CVK, sitting and voting records from the Saeima's open data, polling from SKDS. The arithmetic is printed on the page: balance is cash plus savings plus securities plus shares plus loans issued, minus debts. Property and cars carry no declared value, so they count as units, not euros.
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Three full-screen slides open the site, because a search box on its own persuades nobody. 63.3% of candidates declare zero euros or only debts. 31 people hold half of all money declared. Total debt runs to €32.21m, against €25.42m in savings.
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A searchable index by name, company, employer, even car make, filtered by district, employment, status and education. Each row opens a dossier: declared balance, what it is made of, a plain biography. Below that, what the 89 incumbents did with the last four years: 297 sittings, 7781 recorded votes, 5768 speeches. Two never took the podium.
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The companion piece started with a simple question: can the real voting ritual be rehearsed without turning it into another generic online poll? Pick your district, choose a list, mark pluses and strike-outs on a faithful replica of the paper ballot, then drop it into a digital ballot box. Any candidate name opens their dossier.
You can download the filled ballot as a PNG and take it to the polling station on 3 October. It is watermarked SIMULĀCIJA so it cannot be mistaken for the real thing. To keep voting friction low without logins, cookies or IP-based identity, I used a dedicated eSIM as the verification layer: send an SMS, a script registers the incoming number, stores only a one-way cryptographic fingerprint, and confirms one vote per number per week.
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I don't like dead parts of products. A donation form is usually one of them.
So instead of a row of amounts and a payment button, I made myself the interface. The more you choose to donate, the fatter I get. €5 buys me a snack. Keep dragging and apparently you're funding a lifestyle.
It does absolutely nothing to make the payment system work better. It just makes a boring moment worth playing with, which, to me, is part of making the product work.
Both sites are live ahead of the election on 3 October 2026.