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Blue Rose Research is a project of OpenLabs to help progressive campaigns and issue orgs make higher quality strategic decisions with better polling and message testing. In the 2022 midterms, we advised major progressive organizations on directing hundreds of millions of dollars to the right ads and states, tested thousands of ads and talking points from state legislature to governor and senate races, and gave strategic election forecasting advice that was more accurate than public polls. Our team of 20+ passionate and progressive software engineers, machine learning engineers, and social scientists specialize in: Polling: Solving fundamental problems plaguing the polling industry today by applying state of the art tools from machine learning and Bayesian statistics. Message and creative testing: Providing rapid turnaround testing guidance for communications professionals on what messaging works and what doesn’t on the key issues of the day.

MyVoiceCounts is a civic-tech platform built to make public opinion more trustworthy, transparent, and accessible. Today, it is increasingly difficult to understand what people genuinely think. Online discussions can be distorted by bots, fake accounts, coordinated activity, social pressure, and highly vocal minorities. Traditional polling can also be limited by small samples, infrequent data collection, and the gap between a survey and ongoing public participation. MyVoiceCounts is designed to address that problem by creating a space where real people can participate anonymously while the authenticity of participation is verified. Users can take part in public initiatives and events, express support for specific topics, and see aggregated public statistics in real time. Our verification system is built around the principle of one person, one voice. Depending on the event, participants can be verified through identity-verification methods designed to prevent bots, fake accounts, and duplicate participation while keeping individual votes anonymous. For KYC-based verification, MyVoiceCounts uses encrypted identifiers so that participation can be validated without exposing a voter’s identity or connecting their identity to an individual vote. The platform also gives organizers a structured way to create public events and initiatives, present topics for participation, and receive transparent aggregated feedback from verified participants. Organizers are identifiable, while participants remain anonymous—combining accountability on one side with privacy on the other. Our goal is to build infrastructure for understanding real public sentiment beyond social-media bubbles: verified people, anonymous participation, transparent statistics, and data that communities and organizations can use to better understand public opinion