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A coalition of U.S. voters based on votes cast as proof, where 1/100th
of the votes cast, elects one
of the one hundred members of parliament (MPs).”
Welcome to the US Parliament!
By James Ogle [Parliamentary], founder and elected volunteer.
Thank you for allowing us to use your name in the US Parliament. You've
been elected or self-appointed to the highest Member of Parliament (MP)
position available, as one equal member of up to 100 members.
Your name has been edited into the state/county web page as you requested, of the state/county
you requested. If you want an email or web link on your name there, be sure to email me back.
In the US Parliament, there are 12 population balanced super-state circuits,
and each super-state circuit has 12 population balanced mini-state circuits.
That way, all US voters across the nation are in equal sized voting districts.
All the counties and states have been grouped with equal populations as
possible, without breaching any existing state and county boundary lines.
My name is James Orlando Ogle III, I am an artist, and the original
creator of this web page for the parliamentary coalition's annual election
of voters since 1995, called www.usparliament.org. Many people have
helped contribute ideas for the web page and voter registration project.
Founded on August 5th, 1995
After more than 100 computer scientists voted on a preference ballot
when the web was mostly just text in early 1995,
the US Federal Elections Commission (FEC)
recognized the USA Parliament as a national
political organization, a political action committee (PAC)
where everyone is free to self categorize as they wish.
The US Parliament had evolved as a 100-member parliament
from the Environmentalist Party, founded by Mike Bogatirev in 1983.
As founder and as an elected volunteer vote counter of the US Parliament,
I have kept and still do keep, a notebook on all self-appointments.
I have every ranked vote cast since 1995 as proof, and I update the web page accordingly.
If you ever want your name on or off the web page, to switch
parties/categories, have any ideas, improvements, or questions to be
addressed, please feel free to email me vvc@usparliament.org.
In all cases of resignation (or death), the name is removed from the web page
with little or no fanfare at all, and the next highest ranked name is
elected in their stead, based on votes cast, paper ballots kept as proof.
You Are Now A Member/Candidate
By self appointing, your name will appear
on your state or circuit's web page, and your name automatically qualifies
for the ballot in that district's next parliamentary coalition
election. All of our cycles are timed with the US Constitution, but
the US Parliament elections end on August 5th.
Every elected 100 member parliament, features 100
independent people like you, each elected with 1% of the votes cast.
(We use 100 members, because its symmetrical to percentages)
The members’ party/category is used as a free speech word
of communication so that the voters, while in the voter box,
can learn more about you besides just your name.
You are free to have your name and/or your party/category spelled
however you wish it, as long as minimal verification is met if/when called for,
and as long as no slander is used in your party/category name.
The annual elections always feature a ranked ballot, where voters
must rank one or more choices, #1, #2, #3, etc., etc., in order to be counted
As a new member, you may wish to subscribe to a monthly email
bulletin, or engage in other political activities in the parliament.
We have two communication email lists, a monthly bulletin, and a day-to-day
robotic exploder listerver for more active members.
You may engage the monthly bulletin by sending the message subscribe
to vvc@usparliament.org
For the day-to-day robotic subscription list, email parliament@constitutionalgov.us.
To volunteer more than just your name only, please see the volunteer page,
http://www.usparliament.org/volunteer.htm and indicate your interests.
Only if we work as a team, can we accomplish the real electoral reforms we seek.
2007 Plan
The current US Parliament ruling coalition has approved the rules
which will guide voting between 4/20/2007 to 8/5/2007, where
people will be able to vote online, and on paper ballots
at voting booth locations when possible.
In 2006, 93% of votes were cast were on paper ballots, and 10% of those
voters also updated their own US Federal voter registration forms
We hope to continue the tradition of helping to register more US
voters on the paper ballots. It is a top priority.
2008 Plan
In 2008 we repeat the entire process, but as a single at-large national
100-member district. All 100 “seats” are up for election to a four-year term in 2008.
These same ballots cast in 2008 will be recounted a second time, in order
to elect both a US presidential and a vice presidential candidate, who are to
be the initial contacts with four year terms, for forming a ruling coalition
and for electing a five member executive.
The first two names who win 33.33% plus one vote of the votes cast as proof are elected,
after all the lower ranked candidates are eliminated round by round, as done under the
Single transferable vote (STV) system, or instant runoff voting (IRV), in a two seat district.
The elected president and vice president and the elected 100 members elect the five member executive,
the three prime ministers and two secretaries, of whom the president and vice
president may be elected as two of the five.
The five executives may be rotated in and out like players in a basketball team,
whenever the voting MPs create coalitions by voting. The three prime ministers
are elected as a three seat district, and the two secretaries, as a two seat district.
While we will perhaps be able to integrate independent US presidential
candidates into the 100 member Parliamentary Coalition and also potentially
registering more voters under our paper ballot operation, it
is doubtful we will have any real effect on the US presidential elections.
The Prez/VP endorsement information will probably be buried in a bulletin on September 1st 2008, as these positions are not a high priority for the
US Parliament because we are too small (unless something spectacular happens).
We are censored by the state (most members are not permitted ballot access),
and not recognized by enough people.
Volunteer vote counters and communications volunteers are currently being
sought and enlisted in every population balanced state and mini-state circuit,
and the elections proceed in circuits
as these positions are filled. Self appointments will be ongoing through 1/1/2009.
The Executive of Five
Once the parliament is elected on August 5th, each elected
member gets a “MPs’ vote” to elect the five executives, who take
care of day-to-day operations. Every year, from August 6th onward,
all elected members are asked to work as a multi-party coalition for the good
of the all, and to rally behind our executives.
We ask the elected executives to rank all party's candidates for public office
and to help recruit candidates for public office who will “stand, and stand down”
in the state elections, so we can gain publicity for parliamentary cooperation.
The Co-ed Basketball Team Analogy
We're like 100 elected co-ed coaches, who elect five executives, and they
are like five members of an elected co-ed basketball team.
(The additional cabinet members are like the back-up players,
resting on the bench and backing up the executives as a team.)
Our problem in 2006, was that too few of the players were working as a team,
passing the ball around, so we can move closer to the hoop for good shots.
(It's frustrating when a ball is passed, but the player makes no attempt to
catch the pass and so it goes out and gets turned over to the other team,
because he/she is too busy promoting themselves rather than working as a unit.)
We use the triple prime minister/dual secretary system, a
five member executive, because it's a system that approves actions by a simple
majority vote of three or more, of the five. That way, no one person has
too much power, and they are accountable to the parliamentary coalition of MPs that
voted for them. As figureheads and communication lightening rods,
the Prime Ministers and secretaries can be removed at
anytime. In addition, as up to three factions of voting MPs with 25% plus one vote (one to 26 MPs)
elects each prime minister, only one MP is needed to switch their vote
to the remaining disenfranchised 25% (one to 26 MPs) faction to elect a new prime minister.
Prime Ministers, Secretaries and Cabinet members are like the all party system team players.
The recently installed five member executive of the Fifth California
Parliament, has approved several full ministries by circulating a
semi confidential ranked ballot. Many cabinet members were candidates for city,
county or state offices in 2006, and their names are still serving in the Cabinet,
giving structure for the 2010 elections.
The D-Day Analogy
Imagine that the elected executive members who were also candidates in
California's last state election (names listed below), which supported
pure proportional representation (PR) and were friendly to this
concept, were like an elected specialized team taking on machine gun nests guarding
bunkers on the French beaches of Normandy during D-Day, in World War Two.
The 100 members’ sustained overwhelming firepower, might be defined as
promotion of their party name/category and/or their votes on election day.
Organizing independents, might be like taking roll call and filling up
landing craft for D-Day, with as many participants (well over 100)
and write-ins, to win as many “seats” as possible.
Once the US Parliament's elections schedules conclude on August 5th, 2007, the
results of the election is like the 100 members being on the beach.
The stack of ballots cast as proof is now a tool for cooperation
among very diverse membership, elected with 1% each. We are all friends
and equals on the beaches of France as Americans, but we do need
the best tool to organize, as our numbers are rapidly diminishing.
We use the MPs’ votes to elect a smaller specialized team of political
candidates for office who support each other and work as a team, to take
on the bunker by winning elections.
State censorship (ballot access denied to deny competition of ideas),
plurality elections (elections using a check or “x” instead of #s 1, 2, 3, etc.),
self censorship, and media bias by news media organizations, are
some of the weapons being used against us.
Inside the bunker, they always fight each other, but fighting anyone makes them stronger.
Small parties and independents are particularly vulnerable, that's why we need to work as
a single fighting unit.
We are a peaceful, more advanced all-party voting system, and we wish to
join all US voters under a peaceful, more representative voting system
based on 1/100ths. And we are very concerned because US single
member districts are too destructive, requiring only one person to
win because they are “better” than everyone else, working for their
own district, instead of 100 winners working for the good of the all.
The population balanced mini-state and super-state parliaments then, shall be
like armadas of landing craft, where each elected parliament
circuit builds 25 to 35 party boats, represented as 25 to 35
parties/categories. (We usually get 25-35 parties, and climbing, per each 100-member
parliament). Some of the boats carry the political candidates, who are like
super-voters, with access to, (a disproportionately small amount of)
free speech, during election times. These political candidates become our
executives easily, when they participate in our voting system.
We need everyone need to help build all of the 25 to 35 boats, all at
once early in the year, in every mini-state and super-state. Each
party’s boat travels and lands with only members of one party within
each boat (that’s just how the ballot stays organized).
Each party boat has independents integrated into it, based on the
members’ rankings. For example the New Age Libertarian Party is
on the Libertarian Party’s boat, the Green Peace Party is on the
Green Party's boat and the Free Marijuana Party is on the Marijuana Party's boat.
There are more than plenty of boats for everyone, and
everyone may switch boats anytime by switching party/category,
for landing on all the various beaches. Start your
own party, but you must win 1% of the votes to be elected, and to be on the party boat.
Once landed on August 5th, all parties merge on the beach as a mean, clean,
voting machine.
Those in the bunkers do not recognize that us independent partisans and
true independents exist, and every year we garner far more than 1% of the
votes cast in all US plurality elections, but average representation won is
just over 0%. Because plurality voting systems use X or checks instead
of ranking #s 1, 2, 3, etc., and that combined with single member districts,
true independents and independents with innovative party/category names are squashed.
We simply don't exist to those in the bunker, and their rules decimate our ranks.
While the parliament is running around on the Normandy beaches in confusion,
more and more independents are coming onshore as reinforcements, and as
each independent falls (resigns or dies), the next highest ranked
independent is automatically elected, insuring that exactly 100 members
are available to elect the executives who will challenge the machine gun nests.
We're the greens on D-Day, because that was the color of the uniform.
(That is how the Green Party got its name in Germany) And in that sense, we
are all green, and eventually we will find a way to all work together as a
united team, and we will find a way to get off this beach. It's a long time
before we see the Battle of the Bulge.
The Executives
Candidates and former candidates for public office who cooperated on a
joint operation before the California 2006 election include, US Senate
candidate Don J. Grundmann [American Independent], CA Secretary of State
candidate Gail Lightfoot [Libertarian], former CA gubernatorial
candidates Ned Roscoe [Libertarian] and James Ogle [Green at time of
candidacy, now Parliamentary], CA Lt. Gubernatorial candidate, Lynnette
Shaw [New Age Libertarian], SF CA superviserial candidate Starchild
[Libertarian] and Paradise city council candidate Virgil Hales
[Green-Pot-Christ]. In addition, many other candidates were also active
to a lesser degree, including CA Attorney General candidate
Jack Harrison [Peace and Freedom] and candidate for
CA Secretary of State candidate Marge Akin [Peace and Freedom].
The ones above are among those who participated as a team in the writing and editing of
letters to the editor and press releases, leading up to the November
6th 2006 elections. Two actions were approved (a letter to the editor,
and a press release) which were sent with executive majority approval by
Communications Minister Alex Plewniak [Libertarian], to a
number of northern California media outlets, TV, radio and newspaper.
Free, Based On Paper Ballots As Proof
As a totally free organization, based on stacks of
paper ballots cast as proof, we are eager to expand on free projects,
and more team players are welcomed. Through the web pages
and parliamentary voting tools, we can keep linked up, become one of the 100 elected
members of parliament, work as a parliamentary coalition and win.
I hope this letter has helped explain a little about what being a member means.
And I sincerely hope that your US Parliament experience, whether in name only or as an
active volunteer or member, will be a pleasant one.
Best,
--James Ogle
Elected volunteer vote counter