Terms of Service
Make Our Government Accountable, LLC | Effective Date: August 1, 2026
1. Acceptance of Terms
By accessing or using the Make Our Government Accountable (MOGA) website located at makeourgovaccountable.com, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service (“Terms”) and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these Terms, you may not access or use the platform.
2. Platform Purpose & Non-Governmental Status
MOGA is an independent, non-partisan civic technology platform operated by Make Our Government Accountable, LLC. MOGA is intended solely for educational, advocacy, and civic transparency purposes.
Official Government Disclaimer: MOGA is NOT an official government agency, election authority, or legislative body, nor is it affiliated with or endorsed by Congress.gov, the U.S. Congress, or any state or local election board. Participating in shadow-voting or verification on MOGA does NOT constitute official voter registration, cast an official ballot in any government election, or confer any official legal status.
3. Eligibility & Identity Verification
To register an account or participate as a “Verified Voter” on MOGA:
- You must be at least 17 years of age (eligible for voter pre-registration or active voter status).
- You must provide accurate, truthful identity information matching public residential records for verification purposes.
- You agree to verify only your own identity. Registering multiple accounts, impersonating another individual, or utilizing fraudulent credentials is strictly prohibited and grounds for immediate termination.
4. User Conduct & Integrity Protections
We maintain a strict “One Person, One Address, One Vote” standard to uphold constituent sentiment integrity:
Prohibition of Automated Systems: The use of bots, scripts, automated web scrapers, or software to manipulate vote tallies or simulate user activity is strictly forbidden.
Account Suspension for Automated Activity: Bots and other automated systems are forbidden under these Terms. MOGA reserves the right to suspend or block access to accounts, IP addresses, or addresses found to be used for bot-like or malicious behavior.
Prohibition of Scraping, Harvesting & Mirroring: You may not use any robot, spider, scraper, deep link, or other automated data gathering or extraction tools, programs, algorithms, or methodologies to access, acquire, copy, or monitor any portion of MOGA. This includes strictly prohibiting the extraction of legislative feeds, public sentiment data, and user interface designs for the purpose of creating a competing product, training machine learning models, or unauthorized syndication. You may not frame, mirror, or otherwise simulate the appearance or function of this website.
5. "Verified Voter" vs. "Community" Voting
MOGA maintains two separate sentiment aggregation tiers:
Community Sentiment: Open to general site visitors for informal feedback. Results represent general public interest and are not compiled into official constituent legislative briefs.
Verified Voter Sentiment: Reserved strictly for users who pass our Electronic Know Your Customer (eKYC) residential verification. These results are compiled as high-integrity constituent data and reported to relevant elected officials.
6. Intellectual Property & Aggregated Data Rights
Patent Pending Notice: The systems, methodologies, and cryptographic authentication workflows powering MOGA—specifically including the Shadow Voting mechanism and our "One Person, One Address, One Vote" verification architecture—are the subject of pending U.S. patent applications, including U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 64/115,182. Make Our Government Accountable, LLC actively monitors for infringement and will aggressively enforce its patent rights against any unauthorized replication, reverse engineering, or derivative use of our proprietary technology.
The software, source code, visual designs, cryptographic hashing architecture, logos, and trademarks on MOGA are the exclusive property of Make Our Government Accountable, LLC.
While your individual vote choices remain completely decoupled and anonymized under our cryptographic protocol, you grant MOGA a perpetual, royalty-free license to aggregate, publish, distribute, and transmit anonymized district-level voting tallies and statistical summaries to elected officials, public media, and civic researchers.
Restrictions on Use and Reverse Engineering: You are strictly prohibited from copying, reproducing, modifying, distributing, or creating derivative works based on MOGA's platform, visual designs (UI/UX), or underlying logic. You may not reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code, cryptographic hashing architecture, or Shadow Voting mechanisms of the platform. Any unauthorized reproduction or adaptation of MOGA’s functionality is a direct violation of our intellectual property rights and will be pursued to the fullest extent of the law.
7. Disclaimer of Warranties
The platform and all legislative data derived from third-party APIs (including Congress.gov and Vote.org) are provided on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. MOGA does not warrant that the platform will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that external legislative feeds will reflect real-time floor changes instantaneously.
8. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Make Our Government Accountable, LLC, its officers, directors, and employees shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of your access to or inability to access the platform, third-party API downtime, or any reliance placed on legislative data made available on the site.
Injunctive Relief for Intellectual Property Violations: You acknowledge that any unauthorized scraping, reverse engineering, or duplication of MOGA’s platform or intellectual property will cause immediate and irreparable harm to Make Our Government Accountable, LLC, for which monetary damages would be inadequate. Accordingly, MOGA shall be entitled to seek immediate injunctive relief and other equitable remedies to stop such unauthorized use, in addition to any other legal remedies available, including the recovery of attorney’s fees.
9. Governing Law & Jurisdiction
These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of North Carolina, without regard to its conflict of law principles. Any legal action or proceeding arising under these Terms shall be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Wake County or Raleigh, North Carolina.
10. Contact Information
If you have questions regarding these Terms of Service, please contact us at:
Email: founder@makeourgovaccountable.com
Mailing Address:
Make Our Government Accountable, LLC
5540 Centerview Drive, Suite 204
PMB 455059
Raleigh, NC 27606