Submitted by pjmora on July 14, 2008 - 10:31.
On November 15, 2008 elections, please consider the following:
As soon as you vote for a politician, according to our traditional, electoral system, you are in fact giving up your right to make any decisions for the next three year. The elected politician, during the term of office, is legally empowered to decide for you, on your behalf, whether you like his or her decisions or not.
If we seriously want a participatory, direct democracy to improve our social services, we need to elect politicians who will facilitate the citizens choice rather than electing representatives who will make their own decisions.
To confirm what the citizens choice is, we need to develop and implement a secure, verifiable, computerized, recall and referendum system which will bring political accountability, and direct democracy.
With a perpetual electoral system, like the one proposed by NowPolling.ca, you the voter will command the decisions your political representatives must take on your behalf.
For example: The decision to accept P3s (pay profits to private partners) will be yours to make, not one which only the appointed business managers can decide on.
Another example of how perpetual democracy would benefit most voters in Vancouver is that when most voters want buses to be financed from taxes rather than from the fare box, we could command Translink that instead of raising bus fares, transit fares should be abolished.
When you participate on nowpolling.ca, you are not just empowering yourself to have the right and the ability to perpetually make political decisions, but in fact you will be voting for your right to keep the power to change your vote whenever you change your mind, not just on election’s day, but as an ongoing participation. That is what Perpetual-Direct-Democracy is all about!
nowpolling.ca
is committed to perpetually measure public opinion, and to advocate for the implementation of the social issues chosen directly by the majority of voters.
