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Invention Can Be Used by Any Group at Any Level in Any Country (4.00 / 1)

to identify priorities, build consensus about priorities, pressure authorities to implement priorities and, if need be, take over electoral and legislative processes.

It is designed to enable the members of any political group or party to function as sovereign decision-makers for the group or party.

It prevents the electoral chicanery in which group/party leaders and candidates pretend during election campaigns to elicit, respect and follow the wishes of their constituents but sabotage them once the election or vote is over after special interest campaign contributors have bought their votes.

Since the members of the group or party always have their shared agendas, and updates thereof, to use as blueprints and mandates to guide, oversee, instruct and evaluate the performance of their representatives, they can prevent slippage and betrayal by pulling out their agendas and making it clear that they have the power of numbers to throw the betrayers out of office the next time they come up for re-election if they have not exerted their best efforts to enact the agendas into law.

As I write in my book, my invention is designed to restore popular sovereignty in America, given the fact that

The electoral process in the U.S. has been reduced to a legitimizing ritual in which disempowered citizens transfer their sovereignty to electoral candidates who will subsequently use it, once they are elected, to enact their own preferences into law, along with the preferences of the special interests to whom they are beholden.

The act of voting in elections dominated by the anti-democratic rules and practices of the nation's two major parties is an act not of participation in the governing process but an act of relinquishment, a transfer of sovereignty to party-backed electoral candidates who elevate themselves via the electoral process into the inner sanctums of government. There, they translate their own agendas and those of their special interest benefactors into authoritative decisions backed by the power of the state.

My invention is designed to enable self-organizing networks of voters to bring this era to an end.

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by: Nancy Bordier @ Sun Jul 05, 2009 at 14:34:34 PM CDT

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