How it works
The rules are deliberately thin.- Open ballot access. There are no signatures to gather and no filing fees; registering a party takes a verified account, and the party is on the ballot from that moment. An automated review — a check for spam and abuse, not for politics — decides only what is shown by default: a flagged party is left out of the list a voter sees first, and any voter who chooses to show all parties can still find it and vote for it. Its leader is told where it stands.
- A weekly cycle. Elections currently run weekly, and each one shows its own opening and closing times. The schedule can still change while we refine the system, so trust the dates on the election itself.
- One vote per person. Voting takes a signed-in account that has passed a short face check. You get one vote in each election, and it is final once cast.
- Results at the close. No standings are shown while an election is open. Each party’s votes and share are published when it ends.
Real incentives
The political outcome of a test election is not binding. The funding is real. Each election carries a reward pool of world drachma. Every party that receives votes takes a share of it, in proportion to the votes it got, with no minimum to clear. The subsidy reaches the citizen who registered the party, released gradually rather than as one payment, and can be withdrawn onchain — party subsidies has the formula and how it is paid out.The path to binding governance
Test elections belong to the first phase of the World Republic’s governance roadmap. The phases, and what has to be true before each transition, are set out in the organization overview.Next steps
Cast your vote
Vote in an open election
Register a party
Put a new party on the ballot