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Smith County, Texas

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the Smith County questions — their own count, their own votes

These are questions for what Smith County should do. Each is answered by people here, and at 4650 responses the result is carried to Commissioners Court.

Smith County posts its budget, but no check register was found online. Should the county publish every payment as open data anyone can download and search?

Opened 2026-09-26 · 0 responses · open sentiment (Tier 0) · share it

Smith County’s jail garden already feeds the food bank, and people line up to work it. Should the county partner with Tyler Junior College so that work earns a real credential?

Opened 2026-09-26 · 0 responses · open sentiment (Tier 0) · share it

Ask a question — on the Smith County board

Ask it in your own words. It's checked against the bright lines, then goes up for support; at 10 supporters it opens for the whole level to answer.

Asking on the Smith County board — aimed at Commissioners Court. Switch level above.

The traction rule — what enough responses guarantees

Borrowed from the UK Parliament's petition site, where a signature count obligates a government response: when a live question reaches its threshold of responses, we print the result packet and hand-deliver it to the body that decides — for a city question the city council or town meeting, for a county question the Commissioners Court, for a state question the Texas legislative delegation, for a national one the district's members of Congress — and stamp the delivery publicly. The threshold is sized to the level, the way real petitions are: a share of the electorate there. Officials aren't obligated to act. They are guaranteed to receive — and what they do next becomes part of the record either way.