Practical resources for civic integrity.
Guides, checklists, templates, and calculators we use internally — published so campaigns, PACs, newsrooms, and researchers can run polling that holds up to scrutiny.
Guides
Reading a Poll Like an Analyst
A field guide for journalists, staffers, and citizens — sample frames, weighting, MoE, house effects, and the questions to ask before quoting a number.
Identity Verification for Civic Platforms
How zero-trust PII, biometric liveness, and air-gapped vaults actually work — and what to look for when evaluating a verified-polling provider.
Blockchain-Anchored Audit Trails, Explained
What hash anchoring proves, what it doesn't, and how to evaluate a vendor's tamper-evidence claims without the buzzwords.
Checklists
Polling Vendor Due-Diligence Checklist
23 questions to ask any polling provider before signing — identity, methodology, source transparency, anti-manipulation, and audit.
Pre-Launch Poll QA Checklist
Run through this before every poll goes live: framing, sample plan, instrument bias, weighting plan, and provenance capture.
Newsroom Source-Confidence Checklist
A two-page sheet for editors deciding whether a poll is worth citing — provenance, replicability, and conflict-of-interest checks.
Templates
Issue Polling Brief Template
A campaign-ready brief structure: hypothesis, target segments, instrument, success metric, and decision criteria.
Methodology Disclosure Template
The disclosure block we use on every PolitiMind release — adapt it for your own polls so readers can audit your numbers.
RFP Template: Verified Polling Procurement
A vendor-neutral RFP template for PACs, agencies, and government teams procuring identity-verified polling.
Polling Cost Calculator
Typical statewide poll: 800–1,500. National: 1,500–3,000.
Tracking polls run weekly or biweekly across a campaign window.
Demographic, geographic, or behavioral breakouts.
Estimates use a deterministic model: $1.20 per verified response, $750 setup per wave, $400 per cross-tab segment. Traditional benchmark uses an industry midpoint of $35,000 per wave. Final pricing is confirmed in scoping.
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