Cortes Village Vote

An experiment in direct community decision-making.

Eligibility

Voting for CICF MicroGrants is open to anyone who: has a Cortes Island address, grew up on Cortes, is a member of the Klahoose First Nation, or volunteers for a Cortes organization.

Disclaimer

• This system is, as it says in the description, an experiment. It has been under development for several years and has been tested and used before, but it is very much a work-in-progress and may not work as expected or hoped, and is offered as-is with no guarantee.
• Voting is not (totally) anonymous. Transparency and fairness are the top design goals of this system, and anonymizing votes would make it impossible to reliably audit results, however, in general only a few people on the back end will see your votes.
• The results of the voting process aren't binding. The organization(s) responsible have taken the leap to try this form of open community decision making and taking the results into account but have not committed to being bound to the voting results — particularly if the results seem unreliable or not aligned with their organizational mandate.

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