Check In on Foursquare to See a Companys Political Donations

How much money is a company giving to a political candidate? Now you can find out by simply checking in on Foursquare.

GeoPollster, a new "connected app," links with your Foursquare account then shows the political contributions of every company to which you've ever checked in, when the data's available.

"We added the 100 companies with the most venues [on Foursquare]," said Adam Kraft of GeoPollster.

The platform's results are based on data from the 2010 and 2012 political cycles. OpenSecrets.org, an independent campaign finance watchdog, provides those results.

GeoPollster also assigns "partisan points" to its users, resulting in a score that the company says "help users…
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