Another option that would require more planning and work but could
attract much more attention and have a vastly greater long-term as well
as short-term impact would be to distribute a news release (possibly
with the donated help of a good PR firm with experience in news release
writing and distribution - ideally, to both US and international print
and online news outlets) announcing the declaration and inviting the
publication of stories derived from the release as well as stories
involving additional reporting and interviews.
To increase the impact of such a release, it would help if the
declaration included well-thought-out concrete steps that interested
readers could take to help the cause of improving methods used in real
world public elections and other kinds of collective decisionmaking
activities. Suggested steps could include ones involving contributions
of money as well as time to specific activities and programs, including
ones that don't yet exist (such as proposed research and promotional
efforts and organizations) as well as existing ones - everything from
lists like this one that people could join to already established
programs and organizations that people could join or support.
If distributed this way, the declaration could attract not only much
more attention but could attract the attention of individuals and
organizations (foundations and other kinds) that may be interested in
and able to contribute significant funding to efforts to develop and
promote improved election methods.
If there is support for the idea of such a news release, I suggest
taking a little more time to develop a list of existing and potential
activities, programs, and organizations to include in the declaration or
(if the list becomes too extensive for that) in an appendix to the
declaration.
-Ralph Suter
On 9/13/2011, Jameson Quinn wrote:
The suggestion has come from Warren Smith. His steps are (Warren, correct me
if I'm wrong):
1. Write a version of the declaration suitable for publication as an
editorial of an academic journal.
2. Get it published, preferably (quasi) simultaneously, by a few small
journals.
3. Go to the journal Science, which published a lower-quality editorial in
2001, and use that fact to get them to publish it.
I support this plan, as well as all of Richard's suggestions, but it is a
significant amount of work, and by no means a sure thing.
Jameson Quinn
2011/9/13 Richard Fobes<[email protected]>
> On 9/11/2011 8:19 PM, St?phane Rouillon wrote:
>
>>
>> When and where will the declaration be published?
>>
>
> This declaration project was started by Jameson Quinn, and I'm not sure
> what he has in mind for publishing, and currently he may be busy monitoring
> the Guatemalan election results,
Well, aside from the war criminal coming in first place (on youtube you can
see an old 80s documentary where admits genocide and a subordinate
implicates him in torture and perhaps murder of prisoners), the most notable
result was the over 12% of blank/spoiled votes. That's obviously
intentional; it's over a third of the first place result, over half of the
second place one, and more than the (sizable) margin between them.
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