Organizations in support of the voters

[Thomas von der Elbe]

Hello,

I had a long and very interesting phone-call with xRam yesterday. And it 
looks like we have a lot of common interests. Also in the organizational 
realm. It feels promising and we will explore this further early next week.

But our call didn't and doesn't make your answers redundant, Mike.  ;-)

Best,
Thomas


Michael Allan schrieb:
> Hi xRam,
>
> Sorry about the posting difficulty.  (I'm not too happy with Google
> Groups either.  We really should set up a proper mailing list, as you
> suggest.)
>
> xram54 wrote:
>   
>> [1.1]b. Have you thought about founding a political enterprise to
>> support basic democratic structures all over the world from the
>> perspective of the "users" a.k.a. the truely democratic subject
>> (being it really poor people or even descending middle class
>> milieus)? I don't talk about these proposals to build a software
>> company run it inside businesses and everywhere and sell services
>> (like e.g. echo), but rather a political organisation which purely
>> tries to push basis-democratic structures and helps to spread the
>> decentral usage of votorola/ld?
>>     
>
> It's mostly others who have thought about this, Thomas in particular.
> I don't fit easily into organizations so I'm not usually interested in
> building them.  But earlier in the year several of us were mooting the
> idea of an organization that would take the side of the voters by
> pushing technical and political issues in their favour.  The theme was
> to be voter accessibility, as expressed in the simple phrase:
>
>   Enabling people to vote
>
> That message would then be elaborated into something more radical and
> critical of the status quo:
>
>   * Enabling *all* people to vote, without exception
>   * Just as they are
>   * Wherever they happen to be located
>   * Voting whenever they choose
>   * On whatever issues they choose
>   * For anybody they choose
>
> And so forth.  The organization would focus exclusively on that
> mission.  As long as it did so, then (in theory) it would unstoppable.
> The voters would make sure of that.
>
> I think Votorola needs to find another project to enter into some kind
> of working relationship with.  It would have to be a project that
> could stand on its own (like we do) and deliver.  It could be some
> other technical project, or a political organization, as you suggest,
> or just about anything.  (It's hard to predict because the technology
> touches so much else.)  I'm hopeful we can manage that transition in
> the next 6-12 months.
>
> I promise to answer your other questions shortly (they all have
> positive answers), but first I wanted to get a sense of your main
> interest.  Is it the interface to political action?  Are you mostly
> interested in bridging that, e.g. by shepherding the public's bills
> into legislatures, and so forth?  Or is it something more general?
>
> Very best,