Democracy does not sort people by profession. But where you sit changes what this gives you. Find your seat.
Between elections, there is no official mechanism for you to weigh in on the decisions being made in your name. You pay taxes. You follow the news. You feel the consequences. But you have no seat at the table until the next vote, years away.
Voter is the seat at the table that was never built. Not a petition that disappears. Not a form letter. A verified, permanent, attributable record of your voice, before the vote happens.
You can report what legislators vote. What you haven't been able to report, with verified data tied to a specific vote, is what their actual constituents wanted before that vote happened.
The gap between a representative's vote and their district's verified preference is the most important story in politics. Voter Signal makes it reportable.
Most offices are not ignoring their constituents out of indifference. They are working without any reliable, current sense of what their constituents actually want, especially between elections.
The tools that exist, town halls and constituent mail and commissioned polls, are slow, expensive, skewed toward organized interests, and rarely tied to specific upcoming votes. Voter changes that calculation entirely.
Political science has worked with imperfect proxies for decades: surveys with self-selection bias, polling samples drawn from general populations, vote choice as the only expression of preference.
Voter is something categorically different: a continuous, verified, legislation-specific preference dataset drawn from the same voter registration rolls that determine electoral eligibility. Not who says they vote. People who actually are registered voters, expressing opinions on actual pending legislation.
Voter is live in Boston. The dataset grows with every participant. The accountability scores get more credible with every vote tracked. The mechanism only works if people use it. Starting now, starting with you.