Every day the government makes a call that lands on your street, your fare or your bill. Kural puts it in front of you as one straight question. You answer in a tap. Only verified voters can answer, so the result is something no timeline can give you: a real count. Chennai goes first. The rest of India is next.
Your voter ID proves you are real. It never learns whether you said Yes or No, and neither do we. See how it works
Example question. Try it: nothing is sent.
After Deepavali, the Corporation said shops that leave cracker waste on the road will be fined Rs 5,000. Sanitation workers cleared the streets through the week.
Is the Corporation right to fine shops Rs 5,000 for dumping cracker waste on the road?
A polling booth works the same way. An officer checks your name at the door, and what you do behind the screen is yours alone. Kural keeps those two moments apart for good.
Your voter ID is checked and marked as voted.
So nobody votes twice.
Your answer joins the count with no name and no number on it.
One more Yes or one more No. That is all it is.
The count stays sealed while voting is open, and the key that sealed it is destroyed the moment voting closes. After that a hacker, a party, an employer, even a government with an order in hand would all get the same thing: nothing. There is no record of your choice to hand over.
Like the ink on your finger: proof that you voted, and not a word about what you chose.
A government takes thousands of decisions in a term. You are asked about all of them at once, on one day, with one button.
Ten thousand angry posts could be ten thousand citizens or one busy troll farm. Nobody can tell them apart, so everyone in power gets to shrug.
New fine. New fare. New flyover. By the time it reaches your feed, the file is signed.
Every answer on Kural belongs to one verified voter. No bots. No duplicates. No outsiders. Only the electorate, counted in the open.
A short brief, a straight question, Yes or No. You will spend longer picking a reaction emoji.
It stands in a public count of real voters, with the question and the date beside it. That is far harder to dismiss than a comment section.
When voting closes, you see how your constituency, your age group and the rest of Chennai answered. You may have more company than your feed suggests.
No profile shows your answer and no list records it. Even Kural cannot look it up.
Every result goes on the public record and stays there. A few thousand verified voters is a signal. A few lakh is impossible to ignore. It starts with whoever shows up first.
Every vote is tied to a voter ID checked against the electoral roll. One person cannot vote twice, and an account from outside the area cannot vote at all.
Each question is about one dated thing those in office did: an order, a fine, a fee, a project opened or delayed. It comes with a short summary and links to the news reports behind it.
Questions name the office, never the party or the person, and use no loaded words. Yes and No look the same on the screen until you pick one.
Sign in with your phone number and check your voter ID against the roll. Kural keeps your constituency, gender, year of birth and a one-way fingerprint of the number, never the number.
Each question opens with what happened, exactly what the government body did, and what it changes for residents. The news reports it is based on are linked.
Choose Yes or No, then confirm. A cast vote is final, so a stray tap never counts. You get a receipt that says your vote is in.
The count stays sealed until voting closes. Then the result opens, and verified voters also see how the answer splits by gender, age group and constituency.
Everyone can read the question and see how many have voted. Nobody sees a result while voting is open: the count is sealed. What opens when it closes depends on who you are, and it stays open for good.
No result is shown under 10 votes. A group with fewer than 10 votes is hidden and group sizes are rounded, so no one can work out which answer a neighbour gave.
A first draft of each question is written by software from the day's Chennai news reports. An editor checks it against those reports, rewrites what needs it and decides whether it is published. No question is better than a weak one.
Checking voter IDs keeps the count honest. It does not make your answer anyone else's business.
Only totals are ever shown. Your answer is not stored against you anywhere, so no other user, nobody in office and nobody at Kural can look it up.
Your EPIC number is checked, then turned into a one-way fingerprint so the same card can't vote twice. The number itself is thrown away.
One more in a sealed count that nobody can read until voting closes, and a note that your voter ID has voted. The two are never linked, and the note is erased when the count opens.
After voting you can invite friends on WhatsApp. The message carries the question, not your answer.
Kural is also building a way to raise a pothole, a dark street light or a water problem as a formal letter to the right department, with neighbours adding their weight. Voting opens first. Complaints follow.
No. Kural is independent and non-partisan. It is not run by the government or the Election Commission, and a vote here has no legal effect. It shows, in public, what verified voters think of a decision.
No. Kural has no party branding, funding or affiliation. Questions never ask which party or politician you support, and nothing about parties or candidates is published in the 48 hours before a poll.
So each person votes once and every vote comes from a real voter. It is used only to verify you. Your voter ID is never stored next to your answer. You can read every question without one. You need it to vote.
No. Kural keeps your constituency, your polling part number, the gender on your voter record, your year of birth and a one-way fingerprint of the number that can't be turned back into it. The number itself is discarded.
No, and that includes Kural. Your answer only adds to a sealed count. Who voted for what is never stored, so even after you vote the app can only say that you voted, not which answer you gave. Groups with fewer than 10 votes are never opened, and no result is shown at all under 10 votes.
No. A cast vote is final, which is why you pick first and then confirm. Until you confirm, you can change your pick as often as you like.
Software drafts one or two each morning from Chennai news reports. An editor checks every draft against the reports, edits it and decides whether to publish it. Each question links to the reports it is based on.
About a minute after voting closes, which is usually a day or more after it opens. Nobody sees a result earlier, because the count is sealed until then. Once open, a result stays up for good.
Your phone number, voter fingerprint and profile go. Votes you cast stay in the totals, without your account.
Nothing. Kural is free, with no ads and no sale of personal data.
Voting opens in Chennai, starting with two assembly constituencies and then the rest of the city. Voters from elsewhere can sign up and are told when their area opens.
Sign in with your phone, check your voter ID once, and answer today's question.