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A new iPhone app developed by a 麻豆传媒 aerospace engineering professor allows voters of all ages to cast a mock vote for the 2016 presidential election.

The Election Spinner Poll app, developed by James Steck, is available in the iTunes app store in a full and free version. The app, for entertainment only, uses a spinning image of Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump to allow users to show support for a candidate.

The app keeps a local total of your mock votes and a running total for all users of the app. The candidate totals for the individual and those of all users are displayed above the spinning wheel.

To date, the full version calculates Clinton with 76 percent of votes and Trump with 24 percent.

Steck is also working on another spinning wheel app, an idea that stemmed from a Boy Scout wilderness campout.

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The Get a Charge app, which incorporates the same type of spinner, will allow users to fool friends into thinking the app has the ability to charge their phone. It will be released next month.

The apps were developed with help from Kenton Hansen, Mohd Sabra and Austin Crane with Wichita State鈥檚 Ennovar Institute and Mohamad Moustafa, a senior in aerospace engineering.