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The challenge
INFORMATION
When a regular person stops by with a petitioner, they have very little time to acquire accurate information about the initiatives, and it is sometimes generally misunderstood. One of the petitioners' primary goals is to get you to sign, thus they frequently argue reasons with which you may agree, but which, in the end, cannot be linked to reality. This is indicated by the petitioners' waging strategy. The more signatures they gather, the more money they will receive. The greatest consequence for the system in all of this is the possibility for inaccuracies between an initiative's statement and a petitioner's assertion about it.
This challenge is easily solved by establishing a single platform that collects all relevant information about the initiative. Apart from a worker whose income is dependent mostly on getting others to sign, there are numerous other sources of valid information. There is no way to persuade in this new signature-gathering procedure since our petitioners do not have this waving model. They're paid for their delivery work, so persuading you to sign isn't in their job description. Finally, voters may see initiatives on the ballot that are exactly what they signed for, so strengthening the democratic system as a whole.
Our solution
The problem, in numbers:
47%
of people feel that petitioners does not effectively explain what they are gathering signatures for
Source: Boreal, Survey Research, 2021
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