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Summit County hears plan to expand representative surveying with FlashVote panel
Summary
County staff and vendor FlashVote told Summit County Council members the county now has a 600‑person panel that can produce statistically defensible surveys in 48 hours; Council and staff discussed recruitment, sampling, question design and uses for near‑real‑time public input.
Summit County officials heard a demonstration May 7 of FlashVote, a commercial survey‑panel platform the county plans to use to gather rapid, representative public input from residents who do not typically attend public meetings.
County communications staff framed the tool as a follow‑up to the county’s community visioning effort and as a way to reach residents who don’t respond to traditional outreach. Kevin Lines, cofounder and chief scientist at FlashVote, told the Council the vendor’s approach builds and maintains a community panel, runs short scientifically‑designed surveys and can return results within roughly 48 hours of launch.
Lines said a panel of roughly 600 registered Summit County participants already…
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