The honesty charter
A project that will not answer its critics does not deserve to be believed. A synthesis that does not cite its sources does not deserve to be shared. These five principles bind this site and its author: they are public, they are stable, and any departure from them will be treated as a serious fault.
- 1No manufactured consensus. Every published synthesis will cite the raw testimonies it is drawn from.
- 2Public method. When the AI analysis arrives, its criteria and its limits will be published with it.
- 3Nobody speaks for you. When in doubt, we quote verbatim. Never a rewording that betrays.
- 4True numbers or no numbers. The counter shows only email-validated declarations, one per address. Its limit is owned: an address is not a person.
- 5No party, no candidate. This site backs nobody and collects no donations. It gives a voice, not an instruction.
Why this charter exists
Because abstention is already instrumentalised from all sides. Anyone can make it say whatever they want as long as it stays silent: some treat it as disinterest, others as democratic fatigue, nobody asks it directly what it has to say.
This site exists to record what is said, not to reinterpret it. It does not claim to speak on behalf of anyone: it records what people write, publishes it, and if a synthesis is ever drawn from it, every claim will link back to the exact testimonies that ground it. A project that does not respect that does not deserve trust.
What that means concretely
1. No manufactured consensus
If a report says "most non-voters think X", it will cite the raw testimonies that say X, how many there are, and how many say something else. No claim about "what non-voters want" will be published without the corpus that grounds it. People will be able to verify, criticise, challenge.
2. Public method
When AI analysis is deployed to map arguments and measure convergences, its criteria, known biases and limits will be documented and published alongside the results. An opaque AI would be worse than the current system; a transparent AI can be criticised and corrected.
3. Nobody speaks for you
Testimonies are published as written, after moderation (only illegal or off-topic content is removed). No smoothing, no "in other words", no rewording that softens or radicalises the statement. If someone writes "I stopped voting because voting changes nothing", that is what will be quoted, not a rewritten version.
4. True numbers or no numbers
The counter shows the real number of email-validated declarations. One address per declaration is the only barrier that keeps the counter from being inflated. Its limit is written and owned: an email address is not a person. Stronger verification (one voice per phone number, the number never kept in clear text) is planned as volume grows. A small true number beats a large unverifiable one.
The raw figures are public as JSON and the publications as an RSS feed. Verifiable by anyone, at any time.
5. No party, no candidate
This site backs no party, collects no donations, campaigns for nobody and calls on nobody to abstain. It records a choice already made. It has no political line beyond this position: the 13 million non-voters of 2022 deserve to be heard with their reasons, not dismissed as a bloc.
A living charter
This charter will be updated if the method evolves, but every change will be timestamped and explained. No quiet edits, no silent drift. Criticism, objections and requests for clarification are welcome: [email protected].