Quadratic Voting is a new methodology for voting that allows users to vote more than once on a particular issue. Each voter is given a budget of “points,” whereby every additional vote after the first gets more “expensive”. The cost of each vote increases by the square of the votes

(e.g. 5 votes x 5 = 25 points), hence quadratic. Rather than a binary vote (Y/N), QV allows voters to show their preferences and spread their voting power across as many options as possible. I.e. if you have 100 points to distribute across 100 options, you could give each option 1 point  (1 vote x 1 = 1 point) However, let's say you want to go the other way and wish to give all your points to one option, you could give it 10 points, but that would spend all your points because 10 votes x 10 = 100 points. Now that you have given that project all your points, you are no longer able to spend any more on any other options, so doing this is generally a bad voting strategy. With this app, you will use quadratic voting, but the interface will be graphical and provide visual feedback rather than numbers going up or down. Please see the following sections to learn how this works with Palm. How the slider system works, and