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During the weeks after the elections were declared, Ofer Moshaioff, Yoav Ram and Idan Cohen developed a smartphone application ('app') called Ha'Midgam המדגם (). This app allowed users to anonymously vote for one of the major participating parties in the upcoming elections (2015), to disclose their vote in the previous elections (2013), and to view a forecast of the 2015 election results based on the aggregated data from all users.  The app was published for Android devices on the [Android Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bmi.midgam) on December 29th, 2014 and for iOS devices (iPhone, iPad) iPad; developed by Elad Ben-Israel)  on the [Apple App Store](https://itunes.apple.com/il/app/hmdgm/id956943031?mt=8) on January 26th, 2015. It quickly gained media attention on local radio shows, digital media and newspapers. This media attention contributed to over 7,500 application downloads by March 16th, 2015. Our app differs from traditional polls in several aspects.   In traditional polls, media outlets publish forecasts based on a group of 500-1,000 individuals that were chosen by a polling company at a specific point in time to reflect an unbiased sample of the population.