Outsmart groupthink.

Voting methods

• Vector Voting Default A utilitarian's dream come true. Slide every option toward approve or disapprove, spending a budget of influence. Strong opinions cost more, so your vote has direction and magnitude.
  About the maths

  The mathematically grounded way to make your opinions count.

  1. Your ballot is a vector. Each option is a direction, and each slider is how far your ballot points that way.
  2. Influence limits the vector's length. With quadratic cost, every score squared and added up can't exceed 100 × your influence: the Pythagorean theorem, in as many directions as there are options. You choose where your arrow points; your influence sets how long it can be.
  3. Results add the vectors. Everyone's scores are summed, so the result is the group's combined vector: where the room points, and how strongly.

  With two options and 100 influence, every ballot that spends it all ends on the circle: one option pushed all the way, or about 71 on each. Linear cost limits the "city-block" length instead (how far each slider moves, added up).

  Quadratic cost is quadratic voting, developed by economists E. Glen Weyl and Steven P. Lalley. "Halfway costs 25, all the way costs 100" is the same maths in friendlier units.

• Ranked Choice Voters rank the options. The last-place option is eliminated and its votes go to each voter's next choice, until one option has a majority.
• Approval Voters tick every option they'd be happy with, up to a limit you set. The most-approved option wins, which rewards broad support.
• Score, Simple Majority Coming soon