How District Verdicts work.

A verdict is a single bill with a defined yes/no question and a window for constituents to go on record. We curate them; not every bill becomes a verdict. We pick votes that are consequential, close, high-leverage, or flying under the radar.

• Pre-vote open. Congress hasn't voted yet. Your position gets on the record before your rep decides. This is the accountability leverage: they can't claim they didn't know what their district wanted.
• Post-vote open. Your rep already voted. Your district's verdict now goes on record so it can be compared directly against how they actually voted. This is how misalignments become campaign ammunition.
• Closed. The window ended. Final tally is locked and citable. Journalists and orgs can reference it indefinitely.

Every verified position passes two checks:

• Email confirmation. You click a link in a real inbox, so nobody can spam-cast.
• IP-state cross-check. The state inferred from your connection has to match the zip you claimed. Mismatches are flagged so a Texan can't fake a California district.

This isn't airtight forever. A serious attacker with VPNs and many email addresses could fabricate votes. But the combined friction is high enough that a skewed outcome would take coordinated, flagged effort. And every verdict surfaces the unverified tier (anonymous community opinion) as a separate signal.

If you saw “78% already said NO” before voting, you'd bias toward NO (or stubbornly toward YES). That's bandwagon effect. We blur the tally until you cast, so your position reflects what you think, not what the crowd thinks.