Verification

A confirmed email plus a home address checked against real USPS delivery-point data. This confirms the address exists and maps you to a congressional district; it does not confirm you live there. Free, instant. Enough to browse the platform and read your representatives' record, not enough to cast a counted vote.

A one-time code sent by text to a mobile number, or spoken aloud in an automated call to a landline. Matched against the address on file. This is enough to cast a counted vote. Free, instant.

We accept any real mobile or landline number, including prepaid carriers; billing model isn't a fraud signal. We don't accept VoIP, virtual, or toll-free numbers: they carry no more assurance than an email address already does, and email is already required for every account. If a number can't be classified, you're not locked out; you're offered mail verification directly instead.

A postcard with a one-time code, mailed to your address. The strongest proof available: it confirms you actually receive mail there. Enough to cast a counted vote. Offered to everyone at signup, not only to people without a phone. The first postcard to any address is free; a second one to the same address costs $1.23, our exact print, postage, and processing cost, no margin. Delivery takes 8 to 12 days.

Failing one tier just means staying at the tier you have, with a clear path to verify further when you're ready. A counted dissent needs phone or mail verification; browsing, reading your representatives' record, and trying the demo never require more than an email.

A landline reaches a counted tier by voice call alone. Mail verification reaches the strongest tier without a phone at all.

Roommates, family members, and apartment neighbors can each register their own account; we don't cap accounts per address. When someone new registers at an address that already has a mail-verified resident, that resident is notified and can flag anyone they don't recognize. Nobody's claim ever deletes or overrides another account; a flag only means the new registration is asked to prove residency by mail, the same neutral standard everyone else can be held to. If you're ever flagged in error, you can always resolve it by mail or by correcting your address. People already living at an address are never shown who else registers there.

Every counted vote records which tier it was cast at, so published counts can be broken down by verification strength alongside the raw total. But once a vote is counted, it counts the same as any other: one verified constituent, one vote, regardless of which tier verified them.