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A star is an opinion. A ballot is a method. VoteMap turns a question into five typed answers, facts before judgment, and publishes the tally where everyone can see it. Members vote. Everyone watches. And we give the software away.
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Should Canada stop carrying online pornography?
Canada · 1,284 structured votes · 6 member comments (members only)
A national advisory ballot. The sponsor's case is that the world already agrees some images are beyond tolerance, and that no Canadian server needs to carry pornography. Members answer five typed questions, facts first. Everyone watches the tally.
Read and voteShould civic data about Canadians be kept on Canadian servers?
Canada · 778 structured votes · 3 member comments (members only)
Municipal records, member votes, community directories. Where should the copies live? This ballot asks what you know about your own data before it asks what you want.
Read and voteThe method
Five questions, in this order.
Yes/no and five stars are too thin to govern with. A trustworthy answer is assembled from clear, distinct questions, each easy to answer honestly, each hard to game, each able to validate the others.
An observable, low-bias anchor. Answered before any opinion is asked.
"How long did the food take?" → 20 minWhat was this actually about? Partitions the dataset.
"What did you order?" → PizzaCross-checks and segments the facts. It partitions honestly; it does not prove truth.
"Dine-in, takeout or delivery?"Now the stars, anchored by the facts just given.
"Rate the service" → ★★★★The binary, last, informed by everything above.
"Would you return?" → YesMembers
City hall, from the roots up.
Members vote, everyone watches
Every ballot and every tally is public and indexable. Casting a vote, signing a petition, or commenting takes a membership. Gate the action, never the view.
Comments are for the room
Member comments are never shown to the public. When members vote a comment down or flag it, it stays on the page as one grey line, hidden in plain view. Nothing is deleted. Anyone in the room can open it.
Make your own vote
Members can build and run their own ballots on the platform. A ballot stays inside the guidelines, passes a leading-phrase check, and carries its sponsor's name. You are responsible for your work.
Giveaway
The software is the point.
Local Atlas
Every street in Canada, rendered on your own machine. No tiles, no API, no key.
Business layer
2.4 million Canadian businesses, searchable, all unclaimed until the owner claims them.
Plan reader
A 626,000-word municipal business plan as a page anyone can read, hear, and vote on, in English and French.
The loop
From issue to outcome, in public.
An issue becomes a pin on the map where it lives.
Members talk beside the thing, never in a separate forum.
Fact, context, validator, judgment, assent.
Quorum and threshold close the vote.
The status card regenerates from the tally, timestamped and hashed.
Did the fix land? A follow-up ballot tracks the outcome.