On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:00:50PM -0400, Francis Irving wrote:
> He launched ManaBalss.lv (Eurosay.com) in Latvia two weeks ago.
The write-up makes it sound really quite awesome.
> 3. There is a workflow process for making sure the initiatives that
> get through are sensible (rather than tabloidy stuff that tends to be
> popular on the UK's no. 10 petition site)
>
> i. You write an original draft
> ii. Comments by skilled volunteers tell you what is wrong with it.
> iii. You can fix it up.
> iv. Then you gather support. You get a URL. The initiative doesn't
> appear in an index on the site, you have to promote it yourself.
> v. When you get 100 people (they're going to up it to 1000 due
> to popularity)
> vi. Some real volunteer lawyers make it into a proper, viable
> legal text
All this is good...
> in a PDF on the initiative page.
Can't have everything :o(
> vii. It goes on the public site, where large numbers of people can back
> it.
>
> 4. That process ensures that:
> - It is a real proposal rather than aspirational
> - It can regulated by legislation
> - Technical details, such as if it requies a constitutional change it
> is written in the right form
These are great.
> 6. To ensure it can't be gamed, you authenticate yourself to the site
> using your online bank account (via your social security numebr).
That would be problematic in the UK, especially ussing SSNs.
--
"I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue."
-- Richard Nixon, on Watergate, 1978
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