Drawing Board: Town Hall
Town Hall is a suite of online tools that facilitates communication between elected
officials and their constituents and creates efficiencies for town administrators.
Town Hall is a common sense, practical solution to the crises of our political system:
low voter turnout, rampant voter cynicism, and an often ill-informed or misinformed electorate.
Our goal is to provide a platform to promote and improve public discourse in rural
communities and small towns across America.
By leveraging the best features of the Internet, Town Hall
increases government transparency, stimulates meaningful debate,
and gives a voice to those who otherwise would
be overlooked and unheard.
Town Hall seeks to shorten the distance between the elected and the electorate,
to foster dialogue, impose accountability, and rebuild trust.
As Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, "The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty
is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a
people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control
over the government."
Town Hall helps people build and fortify that bulwark.