Sunlight Labs is having three "Hack-a-Thons" coming up. One at Transparency Camp, one at PyCon, and Web2.0 expo. Heck, a few of us are going to SxSW this year and we may do one there, too. Please vote on these ideas and let us know what you think we should be working on at these hack-a-thons. A note: we're naturally averse to advocacy type ideas. We'll likely not do them. It isn't that we don't believe in democracy though! It is because we're a c3 organization, and are legally prohibited in certain ways from doing very much in the form of advocacy.
Goal: Create a House bill preference poll, making the will of the people visible on House bills Description: Allow users to register for representation with their U.S. Representative, notify them of House bills scheduled for a vote, invite them to express their preference for proposed laws in yes-or-no polls. Publish poll results and compare them to House votes, thus making the will of the people visible on House bills. For example: Poll results for H.R. 1424 Troubled Assets Relief Program the People: Nay (29% vs. 71%) the House: Yea (66% vs. 34%) This tool would give average citizens access to their Representatives equal to that of lobbyists. Making the will of the people visible on House bills will be a way of showing, via transparency, whether Representatives are representing constituents or somebody else. See http://www.p-poll.org for more.
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