The instrument
The platform
Votesphere® is a working instrument for representation. For any issue you care about, it records what a ballot never asks: where you stand, how strongly you care, how much you know about it, which level of government should act, and what you would spend to solve it. Plain questions, a few moments each.
What you record stays yours — persistent and revisable as you learn or change your mind. And in aggregate, those records become something no poll has ever produced: a continuous, inspectable picture of where a community, a state, or the country genuinely agrees.
How it works.
The spherical paradigm is not a marketing metaphor. It is a published coordinate model, described in Represent in 2024:
A sphere is easily subdivided into components, such as points or planes within the sphere. The position coordinates start with user preferences for an issue. Each “issue” is represented by a circular plane. An anchored x-axis bisecting the circular plane represents the “for” position; directly opposite this point is the “against” position. A y-axis drawn perpendicular [to] the midpoint of the x-axis represents the opposite positions of “undecided” and “no opinion.”
Say it.
Answer plain questions about the issues you care about — and when the question that matters to you isn't there, propose it.
Keep it.
Your record persists and stays yours to revise. No poll and no ballot has ever offered that.
See it counted.
Every position joins the sphere — an open, aggregate picture of where people genuinely stand, uncertainty shown.
Have it answered.
What is visible and counted can be responded to: representatives see where their constituents stand, issue by issue.
The full argument is in the book; the instrument is open in your browser.
See it in motion
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