Methodology
Protected Innovation
To ensure the absolute integrity of our constituent data, MOGA’s behavioral authentication and secure legislative ingestion engines are Patent Pending. Our proprietary architecture prevents manipulation and cannot be legally replicated by third-party platforms.
Identity & Address Anchoring
To guarantee the foundational democratic principle of “one person, one address, one vote,” onboarding requires absolute identity verification. Residential addresses are cross-referenced using advanced identity verification registries to ensure the submitted address strictly matches the user's legal name. Once verified, the normalized address is mapped to its precise federal congressional, state senate, and state house district codes, unlocking Verified Voter status.
Legislative Ingestion
Federal legislation is ingested in real-time directly from live public congressional data feeds. Every bill is programmatically parsed by its legislative body and mapped to the specific geographic districts whose representatives hold active voting power over it, ensuring constituents only see the legislation that directly impacts their representation.
Shadow Ballot Integrity
To ensure absolute democratic integrity, a verified voter can cast exactly one shadow vote per bill (Yea, Nay, or Abstain). The database architecture strictly enforces this constraint via an immutable unique composite key (user_id + bill_id), making it technically impossible to duplicate, forge, or alter a ballot. Only votes cast by active, fully verified voters are compiled into public aggregates.
Unweighted Aggregation
District-level tallies are calculated strictly as unweighted percentages of the verified constituent votes cast. The platform actively rejects algorithmic weighting, partisan balancing, or the statistical imputation of non-voters. The data displayed on your dashboard is a pure, unmanipulated reflection of exactly what was recorded by real, verified people in your district.
Member Scorecards & Constituent Alignment
Each legislator's scorecard is pure arithmetic on public records. Roll-call positions come from the official House and Senate vote feeds. Each bill is grouped by the policy area assigned by Congress.gov itself — MOGA does not classify legislation and does not assign a liberal or conservative rating. Constituent alignment counts, for every bill where both a recorded member position and a constituent shadow-vote majority exist, how often the two agreed; ties, abstentions and missed votes are excluded, procedural questions and amendment votes are excluded from bill counts, and every figure states its sample size so small samples stay visible rather than hidden. Attendance is reported as the share of roll calls recorded as Not Voting.
Campaign Funding Disclosure
Alongside each scorecard, MOGA reports the money behind the member exactly as their own campaign committee filed it with the Federal Election Commission: total raised, the split between individual donors and political action committees, small unitemized donations, party and self-funding, cash on hand, the largest PAC and committee donors, and the employers donors listed on their own contribution forms. Figures cover the candidate's principal campaign committee only and exclude outside spending groups. MOGA draws no conclusion from these numbers — money does not prove a vote, and many members vote against their donors. The figures are published next to the voting record so citizens can weigh the two themselves, with a link to the full FEC record for verification.
Bill Discussion Threads
Every bill carries a discussion thread. Only verified voters may post, each comment is attributed to the member's chosen chat name and never to their address or personal details, members can delete their own comments, and administrators may remove content that violates the platform rules. Discussion is separate from the vote tally: comments never affect the district or state percentages, which remain a pure count of verified shadow votes.