Referendum voting, from ballot to mandate.
The issue is not failed government. It is doing something about it. Mandate Democracy® is an engineered, tech-based Democratic Republic created to force representatives to actually represent.
What is online referendum voting?
Direct votes on policies & budget priorities
Votes that matter, no matter who is elected.
Educate, empower, enforce
Local, state, and federal. Issues and options. Fact-based choices.
Citizenship over partisanship
Transcend parties, politicians, personalities, and propaganda.
Hold representatives accountable
Enact and enforce citizen mandates using Public Pledge commitments.
Multi-factor authentication
Confirms secure electoral integrity. Records purges and risk-limiting audits.
"Counted-as-Cast"
Only the voter sees their votes. They can personally verify integrity.
What it does, and what it delivers.
- "Mandates" for legislative & executive actions: referenda focused on governance integrity, budget priorities, policies, and issues
- Educate, empower, enforce: the mandates of We the People
- Universal suffrage: "One Person, ALL PERSONS, One Vote"
The benefit is a working feedback loop between the electorate and its government: citizens set the priorities, officials carry them out, and the record of both is public.
Voices on the record.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
— Thomas Jefferson
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.
— John F. Kennedy
Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man may present his views without penalty, there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
— Albert Einstein
We rely on a fact-based, scientific ethos.
Referendum options and information come from independent subject-matter experts, because scientists and their methods hold the public's confidence in a way elected officials have lost. The record bears this out.
| 94% | of the public trusts scientists to help solve problems. 89% trust them to work for the good of humanity, and 89% to make life better for the average person, figures virtually unchanged for 20 years | NSF 2018 Indicators |
| 91% | express confidence in scientists among institution leaders (Great Deal 44%, Some 47%), the most stable high of all since 1970 | NORC/UChicago 2018 |
| 79% | believe the military and scientists, tied at #1, "act in the best interests of the public." All other groups rank more than 30 points lower. Elected officials rank last, at 25% | 2018 survey |
Super-majorities across all demographics:
- Conservative Republicans: 68%
- Education, high school or less: 71%
- Moderate/liberal Republicans: 78%
- Moderate/conservative Democrats: 79%
- Education, postgraduate: 89%
The machinery stands on the founding text.
Read the constitutional case in Jefferson's own words. Still have questions? We would love to hear from you: contact us.