The polls are nationwide, nonpartisan surveys published periodically on this website. Anyone who provides an email address can contribute to the polls. The polls do not request or display information about contributors' political party affiliations.

The only other information besides the email address which the polls require contributors to provide is their ZIP code.

The ZIP code enables contributors with profiles on this website to query the poll database to identify the ZIP codes of other contributors who have chosen particular policy options and contributed them to the database. How this query service works is explained below.

The ZIP Code information also enables people who have created profiles on this website to use the website's free locator service to locate people who live in specific ZIP codes whose policy priorities resemble theirs from a statistical point of view.

We also ask contributors to the poll to voluntarily indicate their age group and gender so that you and others who have profiles on this website can query the poll database to track emerging trends that might be related to the age and gender of contributors whose policy agendas include certain policy priorities.

Here's how you can take advantage of the poll and query services:

To contribute to the polls, define your policy agenda using the database of generic policy options provided on the homepage. You can update your agenda whenever you feel the need to do so and contribute your new agenda and policy preferences to the next poll that will be published on the website.

Once you contribute your preferences to the poll, you can query the poll database to track emerging trends, e.g. how many people select particular policy options or combinations of policy options and in what ZIP codes they live.

If these contributors have indicated their age group or gender, you can obtain this information also and see how it correlates with their policy priorities, as well as with important events and changing conditions locally, regionally and nationally.

By contributing your preferences to the poll and maintaining a profile on the website, you also gain the right to request our web administrator to query the poll database to locate people whose policy priorities are statistically similar to yours and maintain profiles on this website.

If these people have given us permission to send them an internal email on this website from people whose agendas are similar to theirs and want to contact them, we will send them an email with the contact information you provide us.

How this works from a technical standpoint is as follows:

When people submit their policy agendas containing their policy priorities to the database and provide their email address, the web administrator attaches a code number to their email address. This code makes it possible for us to search the database. We create the code for two reasons.

The first is to prevent people from responding to the same poll multiple times to skew the results.

The second reason for the code is that it enables contributors with profiles on this website to use its unique query and locator services.

We use the code to assign you an internal email address on this website so you can send an internal email to the website administrator when you are seeking to locate people who share your priorities for the purpose of building alliances, coalitions and winning voting blocs with people whose policy agendas are statistically similar to yours.

When people with profiles contribute their agenda and policy options to the poll, we ask them to indicate whether they are interested in locating and contacting like-minded individuals with profiles on this website whose policy agendas are statistically similar to their own.

For instance, if you indicate that you are interested, we will use your code to earmark your policy agendas and options that you submit to the polls for cross-tabulation with agendas and options contributed by other individuals with profiles on this website who live in ZIP codes you specify. Like you, these are individuals who have also indicated their interest in building coalitions and voting blocs.

Once you have indicated your interest in building coalitions and voting blocs and we have earmarked the policy agendas attached to your code, you can request the website to conduct a search of the opinion poll database to identify other individuals in specific ZIP codes whose policy agendas are statistically similar to yours, and who have also authorized us to earmark their agendas to indicate their interest to form voting blocs with like-minded citizens and voters.

In response to your request, we will tell you how many people in ZIP codes you specify have policy agendas that are statistically similar to yours in terms of the options they have selected.

If you ask us to contact these people via internal email on this website and give them your internal email address, we will send them an internal email with your internal email address so you can email each other. Once you make contact with each other, you can then proceed as you see fit.