How it Works

Once verified, Bainbridge Island Voters have access to six (6) ‘Citizen Tools’ they can use to collectively learn about, deliberate over, and act on local Issues of Concern:

1) Study Sessions - Hosted on Zoom or in-person, these synchronous ‘Meet-Ups’ provide BI Voters a LIVE event to learn about, and discuss Island Issue of Concern in depth. These Study Sessions will include authoritative presentations by informed community members as well as discussions with (willing) government representatives and decision makers.

2) Discussion Channel - This Discord-hosted server channel provides an asynchronous discourse platform for BI Voter Forum members. The Channel’s format not only facilitates a direct exchange of view points around community Issues of Concern, it is the Forum’s digital place where members can raise new topics for deliberation and - if warranted by a vote of members - elevate those issues to more auditable consideration (see Tools 3 & 4).

3) Collaborative Survey - An AI-moderated ‘wiki-survey’ where members anonymously build and respond to questions around local Issues of Concern. Its algorithms are designed to surface any common ground within a wide range of opinions and, where possible, help create Forum action items, i.e., Petitions-to-Government (see Tool 5).

4) Sentiment Poll - A straight forward ‘Yes/No/Abstain’ response poll that anonymously registers and tracks our collective opinion on community Issues of Concern. Importantly, these Sentiment Polls are conducted on an End-to-End Verifiable voting platform making the auditable By-Precinct results a powerful tool in communicating with elected officials.

5) Precinct Petition - A Direct Action tool meant to ‘engage’ unresponsive local government. Importantly, while traditional petition forms require identifying voter signatures for legitimacy, Forum’s Verified By-Precinct Petitions protect members’ identity yet still carry the integrity needed to ‘deliver the message’ to elected representatives.

6) Forum Resource Hub - Contains Issue links to: local government agency meeting videos and documents; media-generated artifacts such as newspaper articles, blog posts and TV reports; archived recordings of member Zoom-Study Sessions; and archived Polls, Petition, and Proposals.

how to Join

1

Be Verified a Registered BI Voter

2

Be Issued a Precinct PIN

3

Log-in to BI Voter Forum