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Discuss “A new kind of vote”

The issue: unengaged, uninformed citizens. The remedy: deliberative polling.

On Saturday, October 29, a week-long community summit on campus will culminate in Carnegie Mellon?s first deliberative poll through the Southwestern Pennsylvania Program for Deliberative Democracy. A random but representative sampling of community members from Allegheny County will discuss and respond to questions on local, regional, or national issues. Through this poll, the Program for Deliberative Democracy (a partnership between Carnegie Mellon and the Carnegie Library) hopes to raise the level of campus-wide discussions on important issues and stress the merits of campus diversity.

Deliberative polling (as headed by the Center for Deliberative Polling) was first...

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