Abstract
This disclosure describes SI Poll, an open platform on which anyone may request a poll and verified people may answer it, built to resist the manipulation and misreading that undermine ordinary online polls. A participant proves, once, that they are a real, unique person through a portable credential held on their own device; for each question, the credential produces a one-time, unlinkable voting token, so that the platform can confirm one vote per verified person per question without learning who the person is or linking their votes across questions. Voting patterns are checked for automated or coordinated behaviour, such as bursts from related credentials or scripted timing, and suspect votes are set aside, counted separately and disclosed, never silently deleted. Each vote is recorded as a signed, anonymous entry in a public registry, so that anyone can recount the result and confirm that their own vote was included, while no one, including the operator, can see how any person voted. Every published result carries a fixed label, "opt-in poll of verified participants, not a scientific sample", together with the number of participants, the period, the exact question, any votes set aside and the reason, and the method used. Requests for polls are accepted on demand but screened against published topic rules: questions about candidates, parties, elections, ballot measures or individual private persons are refused at all times; questions are checked for loaded wording; and every refusal is recorded with its reason. Results are published only after a minimum number of participants is reached, so that small groups cannot be identified.
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Recommended Citation
Wang, Edward D. H., "SI Poll™: Open Polling on Demand among Verified People, in which Each Verified Person Has One Vote per Question without Revealing Who They Are, Automated and Coordinated Voting Is Detected and Excluded, Results Can Be Audited by Anyone while No One Can See How a Person Voted, Every Result Is Labelled as an Opt-In Poll of Verified Participants with Its Method Published, and Topics Are Screened against Published Rules that Exclude Candidates, Parties and Elections", Technical Disclosure Commons, (November 09, 2026)
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/12841