Frequently Asked Questions
What is Democracy?
A place where anyone can pose a question to their country or to the world, and verified people vote on it. Polls never close and results are live.
Is it an official referendum?
No. Results show what the people who chose to vote think. They are not official referendums, elections or scientific polls, and they bind no one.
Who can vote?
Anyone aged 18 or over with an official identity document — a passport or an identity card, with or without a chip, in any language or alphabet.
Why do I need an identity document?
So that every vote comes from one real person, once. Without it, one person with many phones, or a bot farm, could decide any result. You take one photo of it, the first time you vote; if it has a chip, you also hold it to your phone for a few seconds.
Does my document leave my phone?
Never. Your phone reads the photo — and the chip, if there is one — and checks it itself, then sends only what proves that you are an adult citizen of your country who has not registered before. The photo, your name, your document number and your picture are never sent to anyone.
Is my vote anonymous?
Always. Every vote is anonymous and there is no option to make it public. Nobody can link a vote to you — not other users, and not us.
Can a government see how I voted?
No. Votes cannot be linked to anyone, and the key that stops double registration is created together with independent key services, so it cannot be worked out from your name and date of birth — not even by the government that issued your document.
Can I change my vote?
Yes, at any time. Your new vote replaces the old one, with a 24-hour wait between changes. Opinions change, and the results should too.
Do polls ever close?
No. Every poll stays open for good and shows its results live, so you can see how opinion moves over time.
Who writes the questions?
Users do, in their own words — under their name or anonymously. We never edit a question. The asker sets Yes/No or two to twenty answers of their own. Later the asker can add new answers — say, a new party on a poll that runs for years — but an answer can never be changed or removed once published.
Can questions be removed?
Only content that is clearly illegal, such as threats or incitement to violence. We never remove a question for its opinion or its wording.
How is Democracy protected against cheating?
Its security does not depend on keeping secrets. Every vote carries a mathematical proof that is checked publicly, so a vote cannot be forged, duplicated or altered — even by someone who takes the app apart. Each person can register only once, the app and the phones it runs on are checked for tampering, and the system is reviewed by independent security experts.
How are users protected?
By design, we hold as little as possible. Your identity document never leaves your phone, your votes cannot be linked to you, and the keys that matter stay on your own devices. What we never have cannot be stolen, leaked or handed over.
Why a blockchain?
So that nobody — not hackers, not governments, not us — can alter a result. Every vote is recorded on a public blockchain, and anyone can recount it.
Do I need cryptocurrency?
No. Democracy is free. We pay the blockchain fee for every vote, and you never need a wallet.
Which countries?
Every country. Results can be seen for the whole world or country by country.
What if I lose my phone?
Nothing is lost. Sign in on your new phone and your voting key comes back from your own encrypted Apple or Google keychain. If that backup is gone too, you can register again with your identity document — see the next question.
Can I register again with a new phone?
First recover your voting key from your Apple or Google backup by signing in on the new phone — nothing is lost that way. If you register again instead, your earlier votes still count, and you can vote on polls created after you register again (from the start of the next month), so that no one votes twice on the same poll. Your vote stays anonymous, among the smaller group of people of your country who registered again that month.
Why English and Greek only?
English for being the world’s lingua franca. Greek for symbolic reasons.