New Zealand · opinions · anonymously

See where New Zealand actually agrees.

Ballotbox maps public opinion on live policy questions. Participants stay anonymous to each other. Statements are not moderated unless flagged. The opinion map is an algorithmic vote matrix—one person, one vote for clustering; verification weights apply only to the public leaderboard.

How it works

Participate

Sign in with email

Light-tier auth to start. Add mobile, address, and ID later to raise your verification weight—not your voice in the cluster map.

Deliberate

Vote and write

Agree, disagree, or pass on statements. Submit one clear idea others can vote on. Geography and domain tags sit on the question.

Understand

Read the map

Explore domains, velocity, and promoted questions. Ranking surfaces signal; clustering stays unweighted so the shape stays honest.

Ballotbox

What we build

Accounts, routing, xid, Stats NZ geography, Layer 1 domains and Layer 2 tags, stages from problem through consultation, and the public trust surface.

Polis

What stays upstream

Vote matrix, PCA, opinion groups, and core math—embedded and unmodified so results stay comparable to reference Polis output.

Building in the open for Aotearoa

We are preparing the first conversations and curator workflows. If you are a council, iwi, NGO, or newsroom exploring structured public input, we would like to hear from you.

Contact the team