---
title: PeopleCount
type: platform
status: inactive
country: US
website: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://peoplecount.org/
summary: A US civic technology project focused on restoring political accountability
  through structured many-to-many communication between citizens and representatives.
concepts:
- direct-democracy
- accountability-sink
- consensus-mapping
contributors:
- RandStrauss
- Usmaan
---

PeopleCount is a civic technology project created by Rand Strauss, focused on US national politics. Its central argument is that a lack of accountability — a structured, ongoing relationship between citizens and their representatives — is the root cause of most democratic dysfunction.

The proposed solution is a web-based communication system designed for many-to-many interaction between citizens and elected officials, as opposed to the one-to-many broadcast model of media or the one-to-few model of petitions and letters.

The project represents years of independent research and development by Rand Strauss into the structural requirements for democratic accountability. It has an entry on [Participedia.net](https://participedia.net/organization/7126).

## Links

- Website: [peoplecount.org](https://peoplecount.org/)
- Blog: [blog.peoplecount.org](https://blog.peoplecount.org/)

## See also

- [Direct Democracy](../concepts/direct-democracy.md)
- [Accountability Sink](../concepts/accountability-sink.md)
- [Consensus Mapping](../concepts/consensus-mapping.md)
- [Making Politics Work: Real Representation and Accountability](../../blog/posts/2017-12-17.md) — Rand Strauss presents PeopleCount to DOD, 2017