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Voting takes seconds. Reading takes longer — and that’s your choice.

Circlworld’s constitutional architecture is deeply documented — proposals, deliberation, bylaws-amendment diffs, audit trails. That depth is there for Members who want it. But you don’t have to engage with any of it to vote. The tick-box default at /me/pending-votes takes seconds; the deep proposal page is one click away if you want to read more. Both submit the same vote.

Two surfaces over one vote.

Default · tick-box

/me/pending-votes

Every pending vote from every Circle you’re in, in one place. Title + one-sentence summary + Yes / No buttons. A few seconds per vote. If you want depth, “Read full proposal” on each card takes you there.

Opt-in · deep page

/circles/[id]/proposals/[propId]

The full proposal text, bylaws-amendment diff, deliberation thread, other Members’ reasons (where attached), the audit-event trail, the running vote tally — and the option to attach a reason to your own vote. One click from any tick-box card.

Both surfaces submit the same vote. The vote that lands when you tick-box and the vote that lands when you submit from the deep page are constitutionally identical.

What appears on the tick-box card

Deliberately minimal. Per Charter §5.1.

KINGSTON SATURDAY PARDNA · BYLAWS AMENDMENT          6 days remaining

  Raise the CPR rate from 10% to 12%

  The Treasurer proposes raising the Circle Protection
  Reserve contribution from 10% to 12% of each cycle
  contribution, effective from the next cycle.

  [  ✓  Yes  ]    [  ✕  No  ]

  Read full proposal + deliberation →

That’s the entire interface. Title + one sentence + Yes/No + escape hatch. The platform deliberately does NOT show on the tick-box: the running vote tally (would create bandwagon dynamics), the proposer’s identity (judge the proposal, not who proposed it), other Members’ votes, an AI-generated recommendation. Those are all available on the deep page if you choose to read it.

When the deep page is the right choice

The tick-box is the default; the deep page is the choice. Some signs to take the deep page.

The proposal is a bylaws amendment that materially changes how the Circle operates (cycle length, contribution amount, custody-model change) — the diff matters.
The proposal concerns a Member admission or removal — context about who is involved is on the deep page.
You want to attach a reason to your vote — the deep page has the reason field.
You want to read why other Members have voted the way they have — their attached reasons are on the deep page.
You have a question or want to discuss before voting — the deliberation thread is on the deep page.

What is NOT changed

Quorum thresholds, supermajority requirements, voting-window length, voter eligibility — all unchanged. The tick-box submits the same vote against the same governance rules.
The deep proposal page itself is unchanged in substance. The full proposal text, bylaws-amendment diff, deliberation thread, audit-event trail, vote tally history are all preserved.
Members may still attach reasons to their votes via the deep page.
Reason-attached votes are still visible on the deep page (your attached reason is visible only after the voting window closes per the existing privacy discipline).
Bylaws amendments still require their constitutional vote with supermajority + notice period.
DSC proceedings, Selection Committee proceedings, and platform-level constitutional amendments operate under their own procedures — the tick-box does NOT apply to those.

Why this design

Members come to Circlworld to save money together. Participating in a Circle’s governance should be a benefit of membership, not a tax on it. If a Member returns to the platform once a month for their cycle contribution and finds three unread proposals demanding deliberation engagement, the platform has failed at its job — the Member is doing work the platform should be making easier.

The constitutional architecture only achieves its purpose if Members participate. Lower the cost of participation, and participation rises. The Member who would have skipped the proposal page entirely instead spends 10 seconds on the tick-box. The Member who would have read the full bylaws diff still does. Both vote; the Circle is better-governed than it would have been with only the deep page.