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Some large and small cities still have town meetings and local issues are resolved by popular vote. Most of us, however, have been convinced by politicians that our local government is too big and too complex for the average citizen to participate. Common Sense Government recognizes that most of the bigness and complexity is by design to keep the public in the dark while politicians and bureaucrats work the system. We live in an age of awesome advances in communications. We withdraw money from our bank at an electronic box in the grocery store. We buy and sell stocks on the New York Stock Exchange from our home computer. We send pictures across the country on a pocket size cell phone. Our children can do research in the Library of Congress from their home or school computer. We can sit on the beach with a wireless lap top computer and run a business half a world away. Still, we must physically go down to the voting booth on Election Day to cast our vote on paper ballots on antiquated machinery to select someone to make decisions for us over the next four years, this is hardly better than sending them off on horseback. Why do we do this?? Because incumbent politicians like it that way! Keep your input to a minimum and making the voting process difficult favors those already in power. Common Sense Government believes that any significant decisions made by local government could be put to a referendum via E-mail on your home computer. If a significant number of responses were received, city council would be bound to follow the will of the people. Common Sense Government believes that all elections should be conducted through the mail or via computer. This would significantly increase the number of citizen’s participation in the voting process and reduce the cost of the voting process by 30%. Common Sense Government wants your opinions on the issues of the day. Please take the time to fill out a public comment form and tell us: "What Do You Think”??? |
