Steve Ruud

Our project is paving a secure path for decentralized democracy by removing the need for antiquated voting systems and representatives whose interests are aligned with deep pockets, instead of real-time desires of their constituents. Put the power of the voice and the vote in YOUR pocket. The MVP will be deployed on the Oasis Sapphire blockchain and facilitates voting for small organizations, with first adopters being decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). Future iterations of Effective Collective will facilitate community discourse, as well as scaling to local, state, provincial, and federal governments. FEATURES Simplified UX/UI and customizable dashboard for scaling to users who are not savvy in Web3 systems. Sort and filter proposals that are up for vote by time when the vote is due, budget size, and/or general category (i.e. environment, taxes, etc.). Comprehensive proposal page allows for voter research, voicing and endorsing opinions, as well as casting a vote on that proposal. Discourse section within each proposal allows users to voice pros/cons to the community. This feature also includes the ability to up-vote opinions that users agree with most, democratically filtering the most widely-held opinions to the top. Users can swipe left to remove proposals or discourse boxes from their interface. Ranked choice voting for proposals that offer more than one option to vote on (i.e. candidate voting). Quadratic "Boost" voting. Users receive a balance of Boost votes to hyper-endorse proposals they feel most passionate about. Boost vote allocation depends on how many proposals a user is currently qualified to vote on. Corresponding Boost votes expire once a proposal's voting outcome is written to the blockchain. NFT badges are generated to 1) confirm a user has voting rights within a given DAO, city, province, state, etc. 2) confirm the user's vote has been recorded.