The city of Wichita Falls is participating in a program touted as a way for residents to provide input, according to a city media release.
The system is called FlashVote, a company headquartered in Incline Village, Nevada.
“It’s a way to engage the community and gather valuable input from residents to inform our decisions,” the city said in a press release.
The company’s website says service is available to all individuals who are at least 18 years of age.
Participants may sign up is at www.flashvote.com/wichitafallstx or 775-235-2240 to participate by phone or text only.
The release said input is kept anonymous and personal or demographic information collected is never shared with the city or anyone else.
The company’s website says and public Information submitted by registrants may be made public through syndication programs and by search engines, metasearch tools, crawlers, metacrawlers and other similar programs.The release said participants will receive a notification whenever there is a new survey and will have 48 hours to participate before voting closes.
“Once a survey is closed, everyone who participated will automatically receive a summary of the overall results and be able to see how their responses compare to the group,” the release said.
This article originally appeared on Wichita Falls Times Record News: City of Wichita Falls offers anonymous surveys for residents
Reporting by Lynn Walker, Wichita Falls Times Record News / Wichita Falls Times Record News
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