Vote Sizing Institute

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Vote sizing institute founder and president Steve Glickman believes the only thing that can save us from collapse is to reform our democratic institutions so that they once again give a real voice to the unrepresented majority.

Says the self-proclaimed anti-expert in his soon to be released book, “We no longer have a democratic society; we have a democratistic society. It looks like democracy and they make it sound like democracy and we all want to believe it’s democracy, but it ain’t democracy.”

While studying philosophy at the University of Victoria BC over 20 years ago, Glickman realized that the fatal flaw in the system was the one-person-one-vote principle. This realization brought him to a simple solution, a process he calls “vote sizing” that gives a weighted vote to people who are poorer, working and middle-class.

Rather than attempt to single-handedly evolve the world, Glickman has spent majority of his adult life trying to fit in - hammering a lot of nails, serving food, cleaning pools, checking people in and out, teaching skiing and windsurfing, washing windows, and programming computers.

However, in the winter of 2000, he dropped out and took a four-month trip to Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. While talking with the desperate and powerless people there about their lives, fears and dreams, he realized his calling and became a full-time crusader for vote sizing. They broke his heart, and he decided it was time to give back. In this giving back he’s discovered a passion which knows few limits.

Glickman’s influences range from Steve Biko to Kurt Cobain to Howard Stern to Michael Moore. His talent for writing unflinching plays won him the British Columbia Festival of the Arts 2001 Otherwords contest and two scholarships to the Vancouver Film School’s writing program. His feature film screenplay =TAGS= about animal liberators won the semi-finalist award in Fade-In Magazine - The Writers Network 10th Annual Screenplay & Fiction Competition.

Recently, as the shadow of illegal wars, corporate malfeasances and outrageous political scandals looms larger and larger, Glickman’s message has been drawing more interest. He’s been asked to appear on radio shows across the US and Canada. With branches of the party in Canada, Cameroon, and recently in Cartagena, Colombia; Glickman envisions a worldwide movement.