The Egalitarian Voter Union Technical Doctrine

A Minimal Infrastructure for Collective Political Capacity

I. Purpose

The Egalitarian Voter Union (EVU) exists to provide minimal institutional infrastructure through which populations can transform diffuse individual political preferences into demonstrable collective bargaining capacity.

It is not a party, a movement organization, or a governing authority. It is an infrastructure for organizing jurisdiction‑scoped political commitment.

This doctrine explains the institutional role the EVU is designed to serve and the design commitments that shape its architecture.

II. Political Capacity and Legitimacy

Under modern electoral regimes, mass participation alone does not produce popular power. Individual voting signals preference, but not collective capacity. Political leverage emerges only when a population demonstrates organized, durable, jurisdiction‑scoped commitment.

Legitimacy and bargaining power are therefore functions not of opinion, but of structured collective readiness to act.

The EVU exists to make that capacity legible.

III. EVU Implementation Primitives

The EVU implements only the minimum structures required to express and measure collective political capacity.

1. User Accounts and Jurisdictional Mapping

Members are mapped to the jurisdictions in which their participation is recognized. All activity is jurisdiction‑scoped.

2. Matter Submission and Synthesis

Members submit matters for consideration. Synthesis may occur informally through member interaction or through any mechanism the jurisdiction chooses; the EVU does not prescribe deliberation formats.

3. Promotion Mechanism (Endorsement Threshold)

Members endorse matters. Matters that reach the jurisdiction’s threshold advance to polling. Jurisdictions may adopt alternative promotion mechanisms (such as sortition or elected committees), but endorsement threshold is the default.

4. Dual Polling

Dual polling consists of two distinct measurements:

A preference poll, which measures what members want.
A commitment poll, which measures what members are prepared to act on together.

Commitment polling is used only for matters that require coordinated collective action, such as candidate matters, ballot measures, and other electoral commitments. Internal platform planks typically require only preference polling unless the jurisdiction chooses otherwise.

Candidate matters require a two‑pass structure:

1. Determination Pass Members decide the jurisdiction’s position on the candidate (support, oppose, neutral, abstain, or other options chosen by the jurisdiction).

2. Solidarity Pass Once the jurisdiction’s position is known, members indicate whether they are willing to stand in solidarity with that decision in the external electoral contest, regardless of their initial preference.

This two‑pass structure is what allows the EVU to measure and express collective electoral capacity.

5. Platform Assembly

Matters that pass commitment thresholds become jurisdictional platform planks. Platforms update continuously.

Matters may be categorized as:

Structural matters: Common templates applicable to a jurisdiction type (e.g., all state legislatures, all county commissions). These may emerge over time as shared standards but jurisdictions are never required to adopt them.
Local matters: Issues particular to a specific place or jurisdiction.

This distinction enables coordination across similar jurisdictions while preserving autonomy for local concerns.

6. Periodic Confidence Poll

Jurisdictions may run recurring confidence polls regarding any governance mechanism they have adopted. Failure triggers a recall or review process chosen by the jurisdiction.

7. Public Display of Results

The EVU publicly displays promoted matters, poll results, platform planks, and confidence poll outcomes.

These are the only required implementation features.

IV. Design Commitments

The EVU is guided by the following commitments:

Non‑paternalism
Jurisdictional autonomy
Minimalism
Anti‑capture architecture
No required hierarchy
No required leadership
No required committees
No required moderation
No required deliberation formats
No required ideological templates

These commitments shape the design but do not constitute additional software features.

V. Institutional Role

The EVU does not issue mandates, impose governance structures, or define political programs. It provides infrastructure through which populations may organize themselves into bargaining actors under their own chosen rules.

Collective enforcement arises from demonstrated commitments, not from EVU authority.

VI. Distinction From Conventional Political Organizations

The EVU is not a party, NGO, or advocacy organization. It does not seek to represent populations. It enables populations to represent themselves through measurable collective capacity.

It replaces atomized participation with legible organized commitment.

Conclusion

The Egalitarian Voter Union is a minimal sovereignty crystallizer.

It exists to make collective political capacity measurable, visible, and durable — and nothing more.