About alignment coverage

What coverage means

Votr’s alignment engine compares your political positions against politicians’ voting records on 59 specific policy dimensions — healthcare, climate, criminal justice, executive power, and more. For each dimension, the engine needs at least one signal from you (a tag selection, quiz answer, or PAU reaction) to compute alignment on that dimension.

A voter with selections that touch all 58 dimensions sees a high-confidence alignment score. A voter whose selections touch only some dimensions sees a score computed from a smaller slice of their politics — still useful, but with less granular coverage.

Why this matters

Some political worldviews intentionally extend beyond what policy-area alignment can currently represent — for example, views that reject the framework of policy debate itself (anarchism, primitivism), or that emphasize procedural questions (constitutional interpretation, governance form) more than specific policy outcomes.

When the system shows a “Limited coverage” note, it’s a reminder that the alignment score reflects only the dimensions where we have signal from you — it isn’t a verdict that the politicians don’t match your full ideology. It means we don’t yet have enough data to compare against your full ideology.

What you can do

• Add more tags during onboarding — each tag covers one or more dimensions, so a wider tag set increases coverage.
• Future versions will introduce additional input channels (quiz questions, narrative entry, reactions to political action updates) that broaden coverage on dimensions tags can’t cleanly express.
• For dimensions outside the alignment substrate (META-level dimensions like personality and psychological orientation), consult the META panel on individual politician profiles.

The three coverage states

• Fully covered (●): at least one of your inputs touches this dimension and expresses full position range.
• Partially covered (◐):your inputs touch this dimension, but the tag(s) you selected can only express one side of the polarity range. Example: selecting “Primitivism” signals rejection of the modern industrial framework on energy and tech-regulation dimensions, but doesn’t express what you’d want to expandin its place — that’s a partial signal. Votr still uses that input, but flags the coverage as partial so you know the system saw only one polarity from that input.
• Not covered (○): none of your inputs has touched this dimension. Add more tags or use future input channels to increase coverage.