Constitution2

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aukunmamap — 2011-09-27T17:10:13-07:00

Hi to all on this site its content

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iteroa — 2011-07-25T13:12:27-07:00

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earth — 2008-10-15T13:41:08-07:00

The U.S. Constitution has some problems and some things the founders did not forsee or forgot. This is a very very rough site intended to be the home for thought experiments about what should be included in a new constitution if we ever get a chance to write another for a secular, democratic society.

ranked_voting_news - created

earth — 2008-10-07T23:45:13-07:00

Ranked Voting (IRV/RCV) Confuses some voters:

ranked_voting - created

earth — 2008-10-07T23:44:39-07:00

The term “ranked voting” refers to voting schemes that allow a voter to communicate relative prefences between candidates or proposals by ranking preferences in relation to one another. Unlike the plurality system currently used in most public office elections in the United States, ranked voting lets people vote for a “third party” (or fourth, fifth, etc.) candidate while still making it known who they'd rather settle for if their first choice doesn't win. At least in theory.

single_subject_laws - created

earth — 2008-10-07T23:44:28-07:00

Laws must have only one subject, and the subject of the act must be contained in the act's title. This eliminates the need for the line item veto and reduces the ability to corner people into voting for acts they'd rather vote aganst and vice versa by adding unrelated provisions. For instance, a bill could be drafted with the current system where passage means both an increase in Medicare payouts and a ban on same sex marriage. With a Single Subject Law rule, each provision would need to be draf…

novel_democratic_designs - created

earth — 2008-10-07T23:44:16-07:00

PaulK: I am particularly intrigued by the model of decentralized “participatory budgeting” that is being explored in Porto Alegre, Brazil. For 10 years, this city of 1.3 million people has been experimenting with a hybrid model that allows neighborhoods to influence the city budget on a local level. The system has been extraordinarily popular and is now being copied by other cities in Brazil and elsewhere in South America.

delete_electoral_college:talk

earth — 2008-10-07T23:43:36-07:00

10/30/04 : Electoral College Idiocy A slightly different way to say what I said yesterday that sounds a little more shocking :) If we assume that the percentage of people who vote accurately represent the total population of their state accurately, so that if a state has 10 million people and the vote is 60/40, that means that 6 million people would choose candidate A and 4 million for candidate B. After the election, we can get 'actual numbers' so far as they will exist.

electronic_voting_designs

earth — 2008-10-07T23:42:26-07:00

Links Papers PDF: Chaum : Secret Ballot Receipts, 2004 computer.org/security/ PDF: Ryan, Bryans : Simplified Version of the Chaum Voting Scheme

delete_electoral_college - created

earth — 2008-10-07T23:38:59-07:00

Rant (See also Talk) All the electoral college system does now, as a system, is to overweight people's votes who live in de-populated states. In 1800 it was a practical way to deal with technology/travel issues for doing a vote in a huge country. Now it seems a bad idea.

presidential_voting_changes - created

earth — 2008-10-07T23:38:34-07:00

Fire and I have been spending our car-time talking about voting systems. Recently, we are pretty much coming down to something like, in no particular order: * Eliminate Absentee Balloting : eliminate vote by mail entirely (fraud too difficult to manage)

government_software_open_source - created

earth — 2008-10-07T23:38:17-07:00

Government Software Open Source Principle Constitution2 guarantees all non-military governmental software systems are required to be open source. Not necessarily free software, just publicly knowable functionality.

draft_review_period - created

earth — 2008-10-07T23:37:56-07:00

60 or 90 period between the final, official draft of a bill and when the first vote can happen on it. It is currently not only possible but common that US legislators do not know the contents of the bills they vote on. It should be illegal to vote on a bill without having read it.

top_executive_elected_official_non-partison_six_year_term - created

earth — 2008-10-07T23:37:43-07:00

top administrative officials: president & governor, are elected to single 6 year terms with no ability to get re-elected. once elected, the president/governor must relinquish party membership and are formally now representative of everyone in their jurisdiction. they may no longer advocate for the election of any other elected representative at any level, nor may they attend or participate in partisan fundraising or decision making

maximum_number_of_constituents_for_house_representatives - created

earth — 2008-10-07T23:37:27-07:00

Everyone knows the Bill of Rights comprises the first 10 amendments to the United States constitution. What few people realize is that 12 amendments were put forth. Articles 3 - 12 were ratified and became the first 10 amendments known as the Bill of Rights. Over two hundred years later, Article 2 was finally passed as the 27th amendment (congressional pay raises do not go into effect until an election has passed--a fine rule, I'd say). Article 1 has never been passed mostly because the version …