[alexmingoia]

You might find it valuable to read “So you want to reform democracy?” https://medium.com/civic-tech-thoughts-from-joshdata/so-you-... by the founder of GovTrack. There is a lot of prior art in this area.

PlaceAVote was one of many startups that tried this, monetized by selling the data to pollsters. They had quite a few users at one point.

https://countable.us lets people vote and discuss real bills and issues, I think also monetized by poll data and ads.