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Free to join. Four boxes on this screen — your name, your email, a password, and the county you vote in. Members can post in their county, state and federal discussions; everyone can read and navigate for free.

Who you are Four boxes on this screen — about 60 seconds

Your full name

Your email

We do not sell it and we do not pass it on.

Create your password

Type one, or let one of the two buttons below make it for you.

Either button only fills the box above — nothing is sent anywhere and nothing is chosen without you seeing it.

Where you vote

Your county —

Your county — not your ZIP code — decides your local page. Enter your ZIP above and we fill this in for you; correct it if we guessed wrong.

Ward, precinct or township (optional — this is what makes our county polling accurate)

It is printed on your voter registration card or your polling-place notice. If you are not sure, leave it blank — you can add it any time from your member area, and you choose whether your profile shows it.

What we do with your answers. You become part of a polling group based on the questions you answer. No person’s individual choice can be known — it is the group that is polled.

Qualify for Polling — all optional, open it only if you want to

These questions are the ones pollsters rely on for polling results. The more you answer the better chance you have of being polled. You are polled, and paid, only on the questions you answer, so the ones you skip are the ones you are left out of.

Your birth month and year (optional)

Month and year is all we ask — never the day, and we never publish it.

This is one of the major facts pollsters want to know when polling. Skipping it may cause you to not be polled on age — you are polled only on the questions you answer.

Skip this question

Skipped. You will not be polled on age. This is one of the major facts pollsters want to know when polling, so skipping it can leave you out of the age-based polls and their earnings. You can answer it any time from your member area.

Public member name (optional)

The name other members see. Blank is fine — we make one from your own name and tell you what it is.

Group, club or business you represent (optional)

Leave it blank if you are joining as an individual — your signup goes through either way.

Your politics (optional)

The same seven answers the membership questionnaire uses, so your answers agree with each other. Never shown next to your name.

Skipping this may cause you to not be polled. This is one of the major facts pollsters want to know when polling.

Skip this question

Skipped. You will not be polled on party affiliation. This is one of the major facts pollsters want to know when polling, so skipping it can leave you out of those polls and their earnings. You can answer it any time from your member area.

Want a page of your own? — optional, you can decide later

If you represent a group, club, business or office, tick what fits and the short sheet for that kind of page opens in your member area when you finish. Nobody needs a page to be a member, and asking for a page does not mean you have to fill in the membership questions.

Check anything that applies: Just my membership — no page A page for a news outlet A page for a political group A page for a non-profit A page for a candidate (a politician profile)

One short form, not two. Members and page owners sign up together here. Once you finish, the sheet for whatever you ticked above opens in your member area — nothing else happens until you say so. We do not email it: email costs money and server power, and you can open it whenever you like.

What happens when you press the button

Your account is created straight away and you are signed in — you can post in your county, state and federal discussions immediately.
If you ticked a page above, the short sheet for that kind of page opens in your member area when you finish — nothing is emailed and nothing is charged. It is a request, not a charge.
If you skipped the membership questions (you are allowed to), you can still post — but your forum input may not be polled, because you are polled only on the questions you answer. The membership questions are what decide which surveys you are included in, so we will remind you each time you post until you fill them in.

The rest of the polling questionnaire will be found in your profile area that you log into. No information that you use in answering the polling questions will ever be shown in your profile. Your profile will only tell what ward/precinct/township you vote in — and you can make that private also.
Joining is free. There is nothing to pay to be a member and post.

Two house rules, in plain words

One person, one account. A household can register more than one account from the same email address (families often share one) — but each account has to be a different person.
Please do not open a second account for yourself, and please do not post nonsense in the forums. If that happens your participation is ended immediately: the posts are deleted and any money earned is not paid.

Tax documents — what to expectYou will not receive a 1099 by mail. If your yearly earnings reach the amount the IRS requires us to report, a printable PDF 1099 is made available for you to download and print from your member area. Nothing is ever mailed to you. There is no paperwork to sign when you join, and your Social Security number is not collected at signup.

Free membership with full posting privileges. No card, no ID, no Social Security number.