PUBLIC DECISIONS · PUBLIC SOURCES
What people said. What officials did.
W4POLLS will preserve the response to a specific question and place a documented official action beside it when the two can fairly be compared. There are no comparison records on this site yet.
Verified participant response
Exact proposal, wording, eligible area, dates, participant count, and a closed result. The result belongs to those who responded.
Recorded official action
Meeting and motion, amendments, date, each official's yes, no, abstention, absence, or recusal, and a link to the official record.
One matter ID across W4
Each decision W4POLLS covers will carry a permanent matter ID. A W4NEWS report, W4USA resource, W4POLLS question, and subsequent official action can point to the same subject while keeping reporting, opinion, and government action distinct.
Compare the actual choice
We will review whether the final motion matches the question people answered. Amendments, procedural votes, changed projects, and different jurisdictions may make a comparison partial or invalid. An official action must be independently sourced before it appears as verified.
Account for every seat
An elected or appointed official's action is recorded by person, office, term, body, and jurisdiction. A successor does not inherit a predecessor's record. Consent agenda approvals, absences, abstentions, and recusals receive their own labels.
Show who the result covers
A comparison will show how many verified residents responded, the dates, and the eligible area. An opt-in poll cannot speak for every resident in a county. We will link source documents and a visible correction history.
Unverified pilot submissions cannot establish what people in an affected district think and will not be used as a measure of alignment with an official's action. Candidate preference is not a government ballot. Official election results come from election authorities, with a separate source and label.