Ever wish you could show others WHY you support the things you do? Then Tapvote is for you

Just add video reasons and written comments to your votes to encourage others to join you in voting for the things you want to support.

Videos and comments are upvotable to show which reasons are most widely shared by others.

A big problem with online debate in recent years has been the anonymous identity of users.

Complete anonymity enables trolls to post abuse or deliberately false information, create multiple fake accounts, or enable external actors to manipulate local debate.

On Tapvote, all users and groups with a public profile have to provide an independently verifiable local address.

This prevents unscrupulous individuals posting on the platform, and in cases of criminal abuse, enables Tapvote to provide appropriate details to law enforcement.

Ever wish you could post public questions to public offices? With a Tapvote candidate account you can.

Tapvote's questions tool enables verified public office holders and candidates for those offices to post public questions to relevant officials.

Verified residents in the official's area can then upvote the questions they want to be answered most.

This means the most widely supported questions rise to the top of the official's inbox, allowing them to respond quickly, publicly once.

This reduces communication work-load for the official office, makes it easier for voters to find answers, and easier for public scrutiny to happen, in public.

The rise of highly targeted social advertising means it's easy for unscrupulous campaigners to create fake news intended to mislead.

To combat this, firstly on Tapvote there is no advertising and no targeted advertising.

Instead, individual candidates and groups can simply publish their commitments to specific goals. These appear publicly on their profile for anyone to see (whether signed in or not).

So if you've been promised something in an ad you've seen somewhere else, you can check if it's an official commitment - if not, it probably isn't.

In addition, every commitment has it's own page where you can check the details, and it's own debate page where you can review public reasons and evidence for or against it as an idea. These reasons are added by verified residents.

Tapvote independently verifies a physical address for every user or group with a public profile. This confirms that they have a recognised residency in the area in which they are participating.

Groups can also register their affiliation to parent organisations and associations. You can easily navigate from one group or candidate up through their parent groups to discover which associations or national institutions recognise them.

Tapvote only connects group accounts to official networks where the account holder has proven both their authenticity and official affiliation to their requested parent group or association.

This protects all users, enabling broad access and free debate, while enabling simple authentication of statements and claims.