Alberta · ProvincialCitizens only
Shadow Referendum · Q5 · the official wording
Should proof of citizenship be required to vote provincially?
Locked for you. This one takes verified citizens only.
A voice between elections
Ask your city. Your neighbours answer.
Decisions about your rent, your street and your commute get made every week, long after election day. On Represent, the people who live here put questions to their city and answer them. One verified person, one ballot, and citizens only when the question calls for it.
Free on the App Store · Verification takes about three minutes
Every week, someone decides about your rent.
You get a say on one day every four years.
We’re building the other 1,460.
Days you get a say
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Live · Open right now
What people are answering this week.
Real questions from the public record, open to verified Albertans and Calgarians. The split stays sealed until each one reaches 25 ballots, so early votes can’t sway later ones.
How it works
Three minutes, once. Then it’s yours.
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Verify once.
Scan a government ID and take a live selfie through Didit, our verification partner. It takes about three minutes, and it’s free.
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See your questions.
Your region is read from your ID, not picked from a list, so the questions you get are the ones for your city, your province and your country.
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Answer, or ask.
Support or oppose, pick an option, or rank them. And when the question you care about isn’t there, put it to your city yourself.
Why it counts
One hand, one person.
An online poll counts clicks. Represent counts people: each one once, each from where they live.
- 2,400An open online poll. Anyone, any number of times, from anywhere.
- −400Duplicates merge. One verified person gets one account.
- −450Bots fall away. A government ID and a live selfie, once.
- −350Outsiders drift off. Your region comes from your ID.
- 1,200Verified residents. A count you can hand to someone.
Illustration. The numbers show the idea, not a real ballot.
Citizen-led
Led by citizens, where they live.
Nobody hands you the agenda. The people who live in a place put the questions to it. And when a question belongs to citizens alone, only citizens can answer it.
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You set the agenda.
Any verified resident can put a question to their own city, province or country. It goes live in minutes, not after a council meeting.
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Your area answers.
Your region is read from your ID, so a Calgary question goes to Calgarians and an Alberta question goes to Albertans.
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Citizens only, when it matters.
Mark a question citizens-only and it takes ballots only from people verified as citizens, with a passport and proof of address. Everyone else is turned away at the door.
Try it. Answer as
Standard
Driver’s licence, provincial ID or passport
Every question for your verified region
Citizen
Passport plus proof of address
All of that, plus citizens-only questions
What asking costs today
On October 19, Alberta asks ten questions. Getting there takes 242 days.
Nine were announced on February 19 and a tenth on May 21. Every eligible Albertan gets a paper ballot, and every ballot is counted by hand. It’s the clearest picture there is of what it costs to ask people directly when the whole thing is built from scratch.
$130M
the estimated bill for one vote
That’s a former chief electoral officer’s estimate, and the Opposition puts it at $132 million or more. Elections Alberta hasn’t published a figure of its own. The entire 2023 general election cost about $37 million.
242days
from announcement to ballot box
19 FebNine questions announced
21 MayA tenth added
19 OctVote day
Then up to 48 hours of counting by hand for the unofficial result.
45M
paper ballots
Printed for about three million eligible voters. In the 2023 election, Albertans cast 1.8 million.
60,000
election workers
The largest recruitment drive in Alberta’s history, up from 13,095 in 2023.
After the count, the workers go home, the polling places close and the ballots are sealed away. None of it stays standing for the next question.
Then it’s taken apart.
98%less
if every eligible Albertan answered on Represent
| Measure | 19 Oct referendum | On Represent |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs | ~$130M, estimated | ~$2.2M in ID checks, once |
| Per eligible voter | ~$43 | ~75¢ |
| Paper ballots | 45 million | None |
| Time to ask | 242 days | Minutes |
| Time to count | Up to 48 hours, by hand | As ballots land |
| The next question | Another referendum | No new ID checks |
The next question
A million questions for the price of one.
The expensive part is checking who everyone is, and on Represent that happens once. After that, the next question adds no new ID checks. Neither do the next hundred, or the next million.
- By referendum, ten questions at a time
- $1.3B10 referendums · 6.6 years back to back
- On Represent
- $2.2MOne round of ID checks, the same as for one question
Represent is the standing version.
Verification, region-gating and the count are already built and running. Nine of the ten questions have been open on Represent since June 12, four months before the official vote, and every ballot there is counted the moment it lands.
The October 19 referendum is a legal vote run by Elections Alberta, open to every eligible Albertan whether or not they own a phone. Represent isn’t that and doesn’t replace it. It’s for the hundreds of questions that will never justify one.
How we got 98%: Didit’s list prices (US$0.33 for ID and live selfie, US$0.20 for proof of address) for about three million eligible voters, at US$1 = C$1.41 (European Central Bank, 25 September 2026), against the $130 million estimate. That counts identity checks only, not Represent’s own running costs. With standard ID checks alone, it’s about 99%.
Sources: CTV News · CBC News · Elections Alberta · The Globe and Mail · Didit pricing
Everywhere
It works wherever you live.
The same app, the same checks and the same count in any country. Your region is read from your ID, so a question in Cardiff goes to Cardiff and a question in Canberra goes to Canberra. Meanwhile, everywhere, the paper way of asking costs a fortune, every single time.
174
countries and regions where the App Store lists Represent today
220+
countries and territories whose IDs Didit, our verification partner, says it supports
1
round of ID checks per person, then every question in their city, province and country
What asking cost, per voter
The public record
Hands raised so far.
Each hand below is a verified person, counted once, on the public record. It’s a small crowd so far, and it’s real. Every new hand makes the next count harder to wave away.
Counts come from the public record.
What it isn’t
It doesn’t bind anyone.
A Represent ballot isn’t a legal vote. It produces evidence, not authority.
It doesn’t sample anyone.
A result counts the verified people who voted. It’s a census of participants, not a poll.
It doesn’t take a side.
Represent has no position on any question asked on it. It only cares that the count is real.
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