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Voting tools communities actually show up for. D5 Town · D5 Square · D5 Atlas. Built by ODO DAO LLC.

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D5 Town is live at https://t.co/LwedDb8pTa

Closed votes for a fixed list of people. A building's budget, a board election, a working group deciding something.

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@araseb_ Unfakeable polls.

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Some questions are nobody's business but your street's. Others belong to all eight billion of us. The same tools ought to handle both ends of that, which is really what it means to scale a single voice. #DigitalDemocracy

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A result you just have to take on faith isn't really trust. That's hope wearing a nicer outfit. A result anyone can check for themselves is the real thing. #CivicTech

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Participation that only works if you can get a sitter and make it to a town hall on a weeknight isn't really participation. It has to fit how people actually live, night shifts and all. #CivicTech

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Calling people apathetic is the easy way out. Most of them aren't checked out, they're just worn down from shouting into systems built never to answer back. Who could keep showing up for that?

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Voting tells you what people want. Talking it through first tells you why they want it. The good decisions usually need both, the number and the reasoning underneath it. #ParticipatoryDemocracy

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Vote here: https://t.co/h2PIEIZU7m

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Today is the International Day of Democracy. Voting is the part everyone already agrees on.

Beyond casting a vote, what matters most for a democracy to actually work?

We put the question up in the middle of the square. Open now. #dayofdemocracy @d5square

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Trust doesn't disappear because people stopped caring. It disappears when caring stops changing anything. Give participation some real weight and trust has a way of coming back. #DigitalDemocracy

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One expert can be confidently, completely wrong. A thousand people with decent tools are a lot harder to fool. We tend to treat scale as noise. Used right, it's the whole point. #CivicTech

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A good vote doesn't just announce who won. It shows you the minority too: how large, how strong, how close the whole thing came. Honestly, where a group splits often tells you more than where it agrees. #ParticipatoryDemocracy @d5square

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Voting once every four years and calling it democracy is a bit like filling out a customer satisfaction survey after the meal's gone cold. Technically your opinion got recorded. It changes nothing about the meal. #CivicTech

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A poll that changes nothing is just a survey with better branding. We're not in this to collect opinions and file them away. The point is to make where a community actually stands impossible to ignore. #CivicTech

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The loudest voice usually wins the room. Trouble is, the room was never the whole population. Make every voice equal and private, and you start hearing what people actually think instead of who's best at talking over everyone else. #CivicTech

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This is a first version. Next big piece is the verification layer from D5 Square, so a closed vote can be proven correct afterwards without exposing anyone's ballot.

If you have a real decision coming up, run it there and tell us what was missing.

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D5 Town is live at https://t.co/LwedDb8pTa

Closed votes for a fixed list of people. A building's budget, a board election, a working group deciding something.

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Everyone on the list gets a link and a code from their email. No account, no app. You can put several questions in one round, set a minimum turnout so a decision only counts if enough people show up, and attach necessary documents.

You see who voted. Never what they chose.

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The public square was never supposed to close the day after an election. Most of life happens in between the votes, and that's exactly where we want to be. #DigitalDemocracy @d5square

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People answer more honestly when nobody's looking over their shoulder. So a vote that can't be traced back to you does more than protect privacy. It gets you the real picture instead of the polite, for the record one. #CivicTech @d5square

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Nobody's going to hand us the future of democracy. It gets built, mostly by people who refused to believe that "once every few years" was as good as it gets. That's the actual work. #CivicTech #DigitalDemocracy