This sub-heading used for the Vote Sizing Institute website could also apply to the old notion we had of forming a political party to scale the vote. Rather than creating new parties like the DEP why not join an existing party and 'change "it" from within' where the party becomes a vehicle for your cause? We have found that new political parties struggle to attract members and influence people like the traditional 3 always...
Empowerment Inc. is an exciting new offshoot of vote sizing. Just as the Democratic Empowerment Party is the political arm of vote sizing (itself the social manifestation of the fair choice) - Empowerment Inc. is vote sizing's economic arm.
Excerpted from: Empowerment Inc. Shareholders’ Agreement
0.1 Warranties of the Corporation. The Corporation warrants...
There are five main areas of society that vote sizing is currently trying to be applied to:
Politics: Democratic Empowerment Party, Fair Choice Party.
Economics: Empowerment Inc.
Academia: Vote Sized Learning.
On-Line: Vote sized polls.
Simulation: Vote flocking game.
... with two more areas we have not yet explored:
Sports: Vote sized performance.
Punishment: Vote sized prisons.
... please see the following pages for more information.
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Close Fair Choice! Can you imagine a world...
Index
Measuring Wealth
External Wealth: Influence
Internal Wealth: Assets - Debts
Synthesis Wealth: Income - Expenses
Relating Wealth
Specific Wealth
Wealth Position
Averaging
Different Vote Sizing Formulas
Arc Sizing
Inverse Wealth Sizing
1 + Sizing
Computerized Sizing
Vote Sizing in Operation!
PHP Vote Sizing Code
If you've read our feasibility page, you know that vote sizing is possible now - we can do it. So now let's talk about how we'll do it. First off, if you...
Index
Reaction
What to Expect
Reactionary Strategies
Ignoring
Laughter / Scorn
Fight / Overreacting
GRIDLOCK!
Planning
Redirection
Drawing Up the Bottom
Drawing Out the Top
Drawing Out the Middle
Then...?
Forever Silenced
Success
Preempted
As far as outlining the evolution of vote sizing, this page is the end of the line.
We've already outlined vote sizing's goals, what we're not, and proactive things to do to get the word out. We're predicting that with this information a small (and...
Index
Life Cycle of the DEP
Word-of-Mouth Discussion
Vote Sizing Ice Breakers
Probe Deeper into Vote Sizing
Vote Sizing Talking Points
A Fringe Political Party is Born
Media Kit
Taking on the Corrupt System
Involvement Opportunities
Interactive version here
Enough talk about the problems with our world, our vision for how our world could be with vote sizing, and how vote sizing is...
Page Index
Roots of Corruption
Avalanche of corruption
Pyramids vs. Hourglasses
The \Dysfunctional/ Top
The /Crunched\ Bottom
The |Squeezed| Middle
Internalizing Corruption
Meeting the Challenge
Where does corruption start?
Corruption is a very serious phenomenon that affects us all greatly, yet it is a term that can be applied to many different things and in many different ways. On this page, we're going to try to whittle down our definitions so that we have a better understanding of...
Index
What Vote Sizing Isn't:
A means of redistributing wealth
An anti-poverty movement
Marxism or communism
A utopian dream
Representational voting
In favor of sizing votes according to tests or abilities
Violent activism
The whole notion of vote sizing is so radically new that it naturally evokes many misunderstandings; so rather than try to explain all of it at once, perhaps the easiest approach to take is by first discovering what vote sizing is not.
As we're gong to...
Vote sizing is an innovative and provocative new way to design dynamic social systems by factoring in the ability to harness natural 'human' emotions such as satisfaction, inclusion, psychology and independent choice; into the collective decision-making process.
Vote sizing can be implemented in many situations; such as in political models, economic models, academic models... and anywhere else where people may want to hold elections in order to reach consensus. In this evaluation, we're going...
One reason the rich keep getting richer is because capitalism functions on the principle of weighted money - the more money you have, the easier it is to buy and consume. For instance, magazines are cheaper when you buy a subscription, and cigarettes are cheaper by the carton than a pack at a time. If you have enough money to buy lots of magazines and cigarettes, then you can open up a kiosk and sell them on the street corner.
If your kiosk makes enough money, you can use the profits to...
Vote sized learning is an innovative new and provocative way to teach students. It is part of a general outlook on modifying social behavior promoted by the Vote Sizing Institute and its partner organizations: the Democratic Empowerment Party - Canada, the Fair Choice Party - Cameroon, and Empowerment Inc. ... and parallels our promotion of vote sized elections, online vote-sized polling, vote sized businesses, and our vote flocking simulation.
The first detour that vote sized learning takes...
One reason the rich keep getting richer is because capitalism functions on the principle of weighted money - the more money you have, the easier it is to buy and consume. For instance, magazines are cheaper when you buy a subscription, and cigarettes are cheaper by the carton than a pack at a time. If you have enough money to buy lots of magazines and cigarettes, then you can open up a kiosk and sell them on the street corner.
If your kiosk makes enough money, you can use the profits to...
Democratic Empowerment Party (DEP) founder and president Steve Glickman usually tries his hardest to shy away from discussing religion or scripture, preferring to stick to the here-and-now. However, it’s hard not to draw parallels between his model of a better society - using what he calls ‘vote sizing’ - and the messages Jesus taught.
Glickman’s idea to replace one-person-one-vote with a weighted vote system to favor poorer, working and middle-class people has...
Pakistani president Musharraf’s most recent raspberry at democracy is just one more example of the fatal flaw in the “one-person-one-vote” system, Steve Glickman, founder of the Democratic Empowerment Party said today.
“This is just the latest meltdown in the Bush administration’s foreign policy, and it’s pretty much what we can expect when the gap between the vote’s symbolic value and actual value is large enough to swallow up whole planets,...
Here is a short response to the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore
that was used to book Steve on talk radio shows (more information at:
http://Special-Guests.com/guests/viewnews.cgi?id=EEAkFFkyEZPPoPxDte):
GORE WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE and Bully Pulpit to Influence
Presidential Race
NOTE: This is an OPPOSITION GUEST being made available
as a counterpoint to traditional talk radio points of view. This guest’s views
do not represent the views...
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Steve was a guest on 1590-AM The Connection - Ventura, California's The Maria Sanchez Morning Show where they talked about how theory and real life can come together in vote sizing.
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Transcript
Maria:
We would like to welcome Steve Glickman to the program. Steve, welcome to 1590, the Connection...
On 1-19-07 we launched our North-American radio campaign. Here is the information sheet which we use to encourage show producers to book us.
Think you could choose between wealth and power?
Steve Glickman says you should have to!!
What’s the difference between wealth and power anyway? To Steve Glickman, founder of the Democratic Empowerment Party and VoteSizing.org,...
Yeap, sure is! There are other ideas of concentrating power floating around, which we explore in the what won't work and vote sizing formulas pages; but the version of vote sizing endorsed by the DEP on this website is one that judges people strictly according to their income.
Why focus on class? The first reason is that although corruption can make it next to impossible; class has the potential to be a choice. Everyone understands class, and it's a lot easier to evaluate than skin color...
The Democratic Empowerment Party & Fair Choice Party are the institutional arms of vote sizing - and aspire to branch out and become a coalition of national political parties around the world.
... but does this mean that every branch of the party will have the very same agendas?
No! By fully representing what you, the people want; the DEP/FCP is able to be both true to its doctrines and yet flexible enough to reflect the variety of different viewpoints. Would the Philippians -...
Vote sizing represents not one thing, or one aspect of our lives, but a general
balancing of both wealth and power on a variety of layers. This balancing of wealth and power − which we call Fair Choice − is acted out
personally through Vote Sizing; and socially through the Democratic Empowerment
Party. This normality − of wealth and power functionally coexisting according to pure
forms − materializes on three separate levels simultaneously:
Fair Choice...
Why does the vote sizing message need to be known to the people as tied to the
Democratic Empowerment Party, and not some other form of public discussion or lobby
group? Here are a few important reasons:
Political First, for:
Effectiveness:Vote sizing needs a political/social arm in order to effect change. Since
it is so deeply rooted in politics, it only makes sense that its manifestation
is a political party.
Relevancy:Since the message the DEP...
The Democratic Empowerment Party is a new-left international political party. The DEP’s primary focus is on invoking electoral reform in such a way as to increase the size of the citizen’s vote inversely to wealth so that poorer people get larger votes.
The Democratic Empowerment Party does not wish to be yet another party speaking on behalf of the poor. The DEP wishes instead to give the poor a voice of their own through a weighted vote. Thus, the DEP...
If we don’t do something today, we may wake up tomorrow to find that the world has changed and we had no say in it. So this website was designed from top to bottom to help facilitate a group discussion, and to provide a place online where we can organize and grow together.
Website Activities
The rather simple idea of vote sizing opens the doors to as many questions as answers, so we've made it top priority designing this site...