| Start here | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Hard questions about My Vote Forward | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Glossary | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| The framework | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Priorities | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Opinions | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Private voting | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Proposals | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Participation over time | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Representation | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Tradeoffs | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| The secret ballot: how private voting became a public safeguard | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Access and exclusion: who was kept from voting, and how | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Participation between elections: referendums, consultation, and participatory budgeting | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Question design | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Measurement | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Collective priorities: how individual rankings become a group picture, and what that picture cannot say | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Opinion and choice | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Evaluation | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Comparative cases: what participation systems have achieved and where they fell short | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Privacy: five kinds of data, five sets of rules | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Consent: specific, revocable, and never a key to the ballot | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Intimidation, coercion, and vote buying | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Security: three layers that must not be confused | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Identity, authentication, eligibility, and registration | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Hardware: what devices can and cannot prove | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Audits and verification: evidence without exposing the vote | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Published releases: scheduled, reviewed, and the same for everyone | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Governance: who decides, and how they answer for it | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Jurisdictions: many laws, layered districts, no universal approval | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Learn | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Seminar guide | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| About My Vote Forward | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Cases: what real participation systems achieved, and where they failed | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Alaska’s top-four primary and ranked-choice general election (2020 to present) | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Australia’s compulsory voting (1924 to present) | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Brazil’s electronic voting: paperless machines, public tests, and the fight over a paper trail | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| The 2016 United Kingdom EU membership referendum | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| British Columbia’s Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform (2003 to 2009) | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| California’s statewide initiative process | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Chile’s constitutional processes (2020 to 2023) | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Colorado’s risk-limiting audits: statistical evidence from paper ballots | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Estonia’s internet voting: twenty years of binding i-votes, re-voting and the security debate | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| France’s Citizens’ Convention for Climate (2019 to 2021) | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Georgia’s 2020 hand count audit: a full manual tally of about five million ballots | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Iceland’s crowdsourced constitution: an open drafting process that stalled in parliament | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| India’s electronic voting machines: standalone EVMs, paper slips, and the Supreme Court | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Ireland’s citizens’ assemblies: randomly selected citizens before national votes | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Kenya’s 2017 presidential election annulment: when results transmission fails the verifiability test | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Decide Madrid: citizen proposals, a city vote and a short-lived sortition body | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Maine’s ranked-choice voting (2016 to present) | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Mexico’s citizen polling stations: randomly selected neighbors run the vote and count it | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| New York City participatory budgeting: council districts, The People’s Money and what the evidence shows | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| New Zealand’s 2020 referendums on end of life choice and cannabis | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Norway’s internet voting trials: 2011 and 2013 | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Oregon vote by mail: the first all-mail state and what it measured | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Ostbelgien’s permanent citizens’ dialogue (2019 to present) | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Paris participatory budget: a decade of resident-chosen investment and its open questions | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Porto Alegre participatory budgeting: the original model, its peak and its long decline | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Better Reykjavik and My Neighborhood: a city’s standing channel for resident ideas | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| The 2014 Scottish independence referendum | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Switzerland’s direct democracy: initiatives, referendums, the double majority and the Landsgemeinde | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Switzerland’s e-voting trials: suspension, redesign, and the 2026 Basel-Stadt incident | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Taiwan’s referendums, 2018 to 2021: lower thresholds, crowded ballots, and a calendar fight | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| vTaiwan: how a civic tech community built an open consultation process for national rules | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Washington, D.C. 2010 internet voting test: a public trial that was breached | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| West Virginia’s mobile voting pilot: Voatz in 2018 and the security reviews that followed | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Handling levels: placarded issues and the care they get | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Agenda-setting: shaping which issues get attention | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Aggregate: a summary that does not show any individual’s answer | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Apportionment: dividing House seats among the states | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Approval voting: vote for every option you find acceptable | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Audit: an independent check of whether a process produced a correct result | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Authentication: proving control of an account | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Ballot item: a proposal or contest that has qualified for the ballot | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Ballot measure: a question that appears on an official ballot | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Ballot: the official instrument of a vote | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Chain of custody: a documented record of who held what, and when | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Citizens’ assembly: a randomly selected body that deliberates and recommends | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Coercion: pressure to vote or speak a certain way | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Consent: agreement to a specific use of information | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Deliberation: reasoned discussion before a decision | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Deliberative poll: a random sample surveyed before and after deliberating | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Differential privacy: a mathematical limit on what a release reveals | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Effectiveness assessment: does a program achieve its goal? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Eligibility: meeting the legal requirements to vote | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| End-to-end verifiable voting: cryptographic evidence without revealing votes | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Gerrymandering: drawing district lines for advantage | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Handling level: how much care a question gets | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Identity proofing: tying an account to a real person | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Identity: the attributes that describe a particular person | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Initiative: citizens propose a law and put it to a vote | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Jurisdiction: a government unit with authority over an area and subject | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| k-anonymity: hiding each record among at least k | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Nonresponse bias: when those who answer differ from those who do not | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Opinion: a stated view on a worded question | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Opt-in sample: people who chose to take part | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Participation: taking part in a civic process | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Participatory budgeting: residents decide part of a public budget | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Passkey: a phishing-resistant sign-in credential | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Priority: a judgment of what deserves attention first | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Proposal: a specific plan for public action | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Published release: a scheduled, versioned package of aggregate results | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Ranked-choice voting: ranking candidates and counting in rounds | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Ranking: an ordering from most to least important | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Recall: removing an official before the term ends | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Referendum: a question put directly to voters | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Registration: entering an eligible person on the voter roll | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Representation: acting on behalf of others | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Resource allocation: dividing a fixed amount across items | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Risk-limiting audit: statistical evidence that the winner is right | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Salience: how prominent an issue is in attention | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Secrecy: no one can link a voter to a ballot | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Sortition: selecting public decision-makers by lot | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Special district: a local government for a specific purpose | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Synthetic data: artificial records made to resemble real data | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Threat model: a structured account of what could go wrong | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Verification: checking that something is what it claims to be | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Voter-verified paper record: the paper a voter can check before casting | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Weighting: adjusting a sample to match a population | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Athenian democracy: lot, assembly, and the limits of the first citizen government | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| The Australian ballot in America: how a state-printed ballot reshaped parties, candidacy, and design | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| The census and apportionment: counting people to divide power | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| The deliberative democracy movement: from a theory of legitimacy to citizens’ assemblies | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Election technology: from lever machines to paper trails and voting system standards | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| The initiative and referendum movement: how American states let voters write law | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Public opinion polling: from straw votes to probability samples to the modern accuracy debate | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| The Voting Rights Act and after: vote dilution, registration law, and the fight over Section 2 | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Women’s suffrage: how half the adult population won the vote, and what changed after | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Week 1: Democracy between elections, and what officials actually hear | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Week 2: What it means to represent someone | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Week 3: Who participates, and whose preferences count | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Week 4: The secret ballot and the history of who may vote | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Week 5: Adding up preferences: social choice and its limits | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Week 6: Measuring public opinion: attitudes, samples, and nonresponse | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Week 7: Agenda power: who decides what the public is asked about | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Week 8: Deliberation, sortition, and mini-publics | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Week 9: Direct democracy: initiatives, referendums, and minority rights | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Week 10: Participatory budgeting and the ladder of participation | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Week 11: Election security, internet voting, and evidence-based elections | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Week 12: Identity, privacy, trust, and the capstone design review | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Problems | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Agenda capture | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Ballot access: the practical steps between being eligible and casting a vote that counts | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Broken feedback between elections: what officials hear when nobody is voting | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Civic education: what schools teach about self-government, and what it changes | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Disability access: voting privately and independently with a disability | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Election administration funding: paying for the machinery of voting | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Foreign interference: outside governments trying to shape another country’s vote | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Gerrymandering | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Gridlock and legislative deadlock | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Language access: voting when English is not your strongest language | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| The collapse of local news | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Low turnout in local elections: when a small and unrepresentative electorate decides | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Misinformation | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Money in politics | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Polarization: when disagreement turns into distrust of the other side | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Primary elections and the few who decide | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Public budget blindness: deciding priorities without seeing what things cost | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Referendum failures: when asking everyone produces an answer nobody can use | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| The representation gap | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Short-term thinking: why democracies underweight the future | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Single-issue mobilization: when the most intense voters outweigh the largest number | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Trust in elections: why confidence and accuracy are different problems | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Tyranny of the majority: when the larger number decides what the smaller number may do | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Unequal participation: who votes, who does not, and whether it changes what government does | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Voter intimidation: pressure on voters and on the people who run elections | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Youth participation: why the youngest eligible voters vote least, and what changes it | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Can someone in a household coerce a remote voter? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Can an institution lawfully ignore a public result? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Can the government use My Vote Forward data? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Can public priorities be manipulated by media? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Can someone be punished for an opinion they share? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Can wealthy or organized groups dominate a priority-setting system? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Does a fingerprint or face scan prove someone is eligible to vote? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Does a majority decide anyone’s rights in this framework? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Does My Vote Forward replace elected officials? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Doesn’t an online participation framework favor the tech-savvy? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| How is My Vote Forward different from petitions? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Is My Vote Forward an official voting service? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Is My Vote Forward a form of direct democracy? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Is My Vote Forward just a poll with extra steps? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Isn’t online voting insecure? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| What about non-citizens and people under 18? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| What about people without internet access? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| What happens when the network or the system fails? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| What if most people never participate? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| What happens when someone changes their position? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Who can see my data in My Vote Forward? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Who chooses the ten subjects, and why should anyone accept that list? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Who funds My Vote Forward, and could money shape it? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Who writes the questions, and how is wording kept fair? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Why not just call your representative? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Why separate an opinion from a vote? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Why should anyone trust a published release? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Why should anyone trust the operator of this framework? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Won’t bots and fake accounts flood a participation platform? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Won’t a participation platform make polarization worse? | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Detecting coordinated campaigns: text similarity, timing, networks, and the base-rate problem | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Deliberation effects: what discussion changes, how it is measured, and what can go wrong in the measurement | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Differential privacy in practice: budgets, sensitivity, noise, and who bears the error | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Measuring trust: what survey trust items capture, how reliable they are, and how to tell trust from partisanship | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Opt-in panels: the mathematics of self-selection and the limits of adjustment | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Priority versus salience: why “the most important problem” is not the same as what matters most | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Ranked preferences: statistical models for lists of what matters most | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Replication and preregistration: how social science checks itself, and how a civic platform can too | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Small-group suppression: when a published number is too small to be safe or too small to be true | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Survey sampling: how a few thousand answers can describe millions, and when they cannot | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Subjects: ten provisional areas of public life | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Defense and foreign affairs | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Defense and foreign affairs, the evidence | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Who decides defense and foreign affairs | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Economy and Work | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Economy and Work: evidence | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Economy and Work: who decides | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Education | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Education: evidence | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Education: who decides | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Environment and energy | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Environment and energy: what the evidence shows | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Environment and energy: who decides | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Government and rights | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Government and rights, the evidence | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Who decides government and rights | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Health and Care: what the public prioritizes and why it is hard to measure | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Health and Care: what the evidence shows | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Health and Care: who decides | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Housing and Communities: what the public prioritizes and why it is hard to measure | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Housing and Communities: what the evidence shows | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Housing and Communities: who decides | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Immigration and Citizenship: what the public prioritizes and why it is hard to measure | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Immigration and Citizenship: what the evidence shows | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Immigration and Citizenship: who decides | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Infrastructure and Transport: what the public prioritizes and why it is hard to measure | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Infrastructure and Transport: what the evidence shows | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Infrastructure and Transport: who decides | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Safety and Justice: what the public prioritizes and why it is hard to measure | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Safety and Justice: what the evidence shows | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
| Safety and Justice: who decides | 1.0 | October 26, 2026 |
