CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE · PROTOTYPE
Ward Mirror
One neighborhood. One office. One question: What did your elected representative actually do?
Ward Mirror is a proposed social layer for Project Loom: a way for residents to see their elected officials, inspect the public record, state what issues matter to them, and compare those things without turning the platform into a popularity contest.
No officeholder, vote, alignment percentage, or jurisdictional assignment is being presented here as a verified fact. Live claims will only appear after the underlying public records have been retrieved and verified through the Loom research process.
Three simple screens
Who represents me?
Enter an address. The system determines the relevant jurisdiction and elected offices. The raw address should not become part of the public research record.
What did they do?
Choose a small set of priorities. The mirror compares those priorities with a verified record of votes or other documented actions.
Show me the evidence.
Every substantive result links back to the underlying public record and its Loom evidence object rather than asking the user to trust a score.
Start with the question
Live jurisdiction lookup is not connected yet.
The interface is ready for the first responsive-city dataset. Once a jurisdiction and verified data source are selected, this screen will return the actual elected offices rather than invented sample data.
No live claimData source requiredVerification required
The social layer does not decide what is true.
Residents can contribute
Users can identify questions, submit public documents, bookmark contradictions, and help prioritize what should be investigated.
Those interactions create research work. They do not automatically create verified claims.
Evidence establishes the record
Votes, promises, statements, and other civic facts remain subject to Loom's evidence and verification rules.
A crowd can ask for an investigation. It cannot vote a claim into truth.
Build only after the data source is real.
- Select one responsive municipality and one office.
- Identify the authoritative source for its voting record.
- Verify a small seed set of votes through Loom.
- Publish those verified records as machine-readable data.
- Connect the address lookup to the actual jurisdictional boundaries.
- Then add the resident-facing social layer.
It is one small, independently inspectable civic dataset that another person can reconstruct from the public record.
Users can help decide what to investigate next. They do not decide what the evidence means.