Yours is private. Theirs is not.
When you fill out your Top 10, it is yours. Nothing is shared unless you share it.
A public servant is different. They represent us. Where they stand on schools, prices, health, housing and the rest is not a private matter. It is the job. So on MyVote FORWARD, an official’s Top 10 is public by design.
The same ten cards. Nothing more, nothing less.
Anyone in office, and anyone running for it, can create a profile with their own login. They fill out the same exact Top 10 as everyone else:
- Their order of the ten subjects.
- How they would assign the money.
- How they think the government is doing now.
- What they think, question by question.
No speeches, no slogans, no special fields. The cards are the profile.
Beside what everyone else thinks
Their answers sit beside what everyone else thinks, in percentages. You can see where an official lines up with the people they serve, where they do not, and how close they are to you. The site never tells you who to support. It shows the cards and you decide.
Every answer public, every change dated
A question an official skips shows as “Declined to answer.” When they change an answer, the change is dated and the earlier answer stays visible.
Officials who have not answered
Until an official fills in their cards, their profile says so plainly: they have not shown theirs. Every official is treated the same way, whatever their party.
It takes one candidate, in one debate, to say: “All my votes forward can be looked at. Nothing is hidden.” The days of secret backroom politics are over.
What My Vote Forward can and cannot do here
- It can show an official’s own answers, dated, beside what everyone else thinks.
- It cannot endorse, rank or recommend any official, candidate or party.
- It cannot make anyone answer. It can only show, plainly, who has and who has not.
Unresolved questions
- Verification. How should an office or a campaign prove that a profile is really theirs?
- Timing. How far ahead of an election should candidate profiles open?
- Fairness. How do we make sure every candidate on a ballot gets the same invitation at the same time?
Tell us what would make this better: send us your thoughts.
