Open questions — at every level

The counting room — where what residents want becomes a number with receipts. There's a question board for every level of government, from your town up to the nation. Each one is advisory signal carried to the body that decides — and it informs the government we have; it never replaces it. No account needed, one voice per sitting, changeable while your window stays open.

the Cambridge questions — their own count, their own votes

These are questions for what Cambridge should do. Each is answered by people here, and at 2350 responses the result is carried to Cambridge City Council.

No questions are open on the Cambridge board yet — ask the first one below.

Ask a question — on the Cambridge board

Ask it in your own words. It's checked against the bright lines, then goes up for support; at 10 supporters it opens for the whole level to answer.

The traction rule — what enough responses guarantees

Borrowed from the UK Parliament's petition site, where a signature count obligates a government response: when a live question reaches its threshold of responses, we print the result packet and hand-deliver it to the body that decides — for a city question the city council or town meeting, for a county question the county board, for a state question the Massachusetts legislative delegation, for a national one the district's members of Congress — and stamp the delivery publicly. The threshold is sized to the level, the way real petitions are: a share of the electorate there. Officials aren't obligated to act. They are guaranteed to receive — and what they do next becomes part of the record either way.