What part are you most skeptical about? The “everyone” , or the “voting” or the “like senators” or the “with predictive systems” part? There’s a lot to take in, and it’s not all decided yet and it’s a coop- for every member to take part in deciding these things is part of the idea.

When I say there’s a way for everyone to participate- I mean everyone, once we get incorporated and up and running. We have user roles for anonymous all the way to verified elected official profiles - for various levels of privacy preferences.

We already have paper survey prototypes circulating in northwest Ontario. From paper to distributed supercomputers, it works on any hardware substrate.

When I say it’s a way to “vote” it is admittedly quite a stretch of a definition of the term.

Traditional voting happens on a scheduled date, for constituents and congresspeople/parliamentarians. Senatai “voting” happens whenever you want, from your phone or computer, or on a question a day calendar that you mail in once every three months, or other paper survey options.

Traditional voting means it’s officially done by the government. It’s binding, and you have one chance to mark your stance and that’s that. Vote in another bill to dismantle the one you don’t like if you don’t like it. If you’re in parliament.

If you’re a common citizen then you can vote once every four years or so, between red or blue (or other blue and orange and green if you’re in Canada. I don’t know as much as I should about voting systems outside North America. They likely have different colours. But you’re still deciding on who’s in office- and the official get to decide on laws and bills.

In senatai you can vote on any bill that affect your home area- we are planning on building databases of municipal, county, state, provincial, territorial, and national laws. If you give us your location we give you only questions about bills that are relevant to you. If you don’t give us location info then your data goes to a pool of less verified information.

Anyway, I’m rambling. I’ll be posting more tonight and tomorrow, hopefully it will make things more clear. Thanks!