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Initial Publication: 01-01-01   Latest Revision: 01-30-23 rls

Central Concepts of IVA Organization: Each Local IVA is published with a set of State IVA and USAIVA web pages in addition to the Local IVA web pages published by each Local IVA web page manager. The duplication of State IVA and USAIVA web pages on all Local IVAs increases free bandwidth capacity to provide public access to all published State and National IVA web pages at no cost. Contact with each Local IVA will be through email addressed to the Acting Local IVA Chairperson indicated on each Local IVA page. Contact with the OHIVA will be through email addressed to the Interim Acting Chairperson indicated on each OHIVA web page. Local IVA and OHIVA organizational goals will be reached when there is a Local IVA published for every County and precinct in Ohio (over 11,000), with a minimum of 9 IVA certified petition circulators in every local precinct (over 110,000 statewide OH IVA participants/leaders). Local, State and national headquarters are located on the computer, tablet and cell phone desktops of Local IVA web page managers.

Acting state chairpersons and officers will be elected when the OHIVA has an acting Central Committee in place that satisfies Ohio state law pertaining to Minor parties with ballot access. All OHIVA certified petition circulators and IVA web page managers will have one instant runoff vote in the nominating process and in the election of all acting OHIVA officers.

USAIVA, Co-Chairs, one man and one woman, will be elected when a majority of the fifty States have an acting State IVA Central Committee established that complies with the election law of each home state. All Local IVA web page managers and IVA certified petition circulators in the qualified states will have one instant runoff vote to nominate and elect all national USAIVA officers, and to nominate and select cooperative Presidential candidates. The USAIVA will never establish any permanent state or national standing committees. The nonpartisan independent majority needs a loose alliance of State IVAs to secure a democratic republic for the benefit of all future U.S. Citizens.

When the point is reached that State IVAs have ballot access in enough states to potentially win the Presidency in the Electoral College, the State IVAs with ballot access will form a national nominating committee to select cooperative USAIVA Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates. Both candidates will need to appear on one petition in each of the fifty states. Both nominations must be made and confirmed by instant runoff vote at the same time. IVA Presidential ballot access petition efforts will begin in all fifty states several months before the start of the Presidential Election Year.

The only purpose of the USAIVA after fifty state IVAs have been established, will be the nomination of IVA Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates. The candidates will be confirmed by instant runoff vote at least a full year before the date of the Presidential General Election. The identity of the IVA Presidential Candidates will be made public nearly a full year before the bipartisan Presidential candidates are confirmed at the bipartisan Presidential conventions, just a few months prior to the November Presidential Election. The IVA Presidential candidates will be known for over one year for voter consideration and comparison to the bipartisan and other minor party candidates. The moderate silent majority can elect a nonpartisan President.

Local IVAs will support Constitutional National public policy determined by the U.S. Government through the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Executive branch, when led by a properly elected President and Congress. Bipartisan national political parties have inherent conflicts of interest that prevent reasonable development of public policies that support life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all U.S. citizens. You and me. Bottom-up Local IVA influence will make clean government possible and will provide for the common good of our people.

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IVA Idea: Local IVA Proactive Voter Movement participants will reform our political system from the bottom-up with work done on our computer, tablet and smartphone desktops. Yours and mine. Millions of desktops. Large numbers of Local IVA web page managers and IVA certified ballot access Petition Circulators will take the corrupt public office monopoly away from bipartisan career incumbents. We will end the corrupt 150-year-old D & R two-party incumbent closed primary re-election monopoly. Occupy Elections. Unite America. Save democracy. All nonpartisan ballot access petitions and information will be available anywhere Local IVA ballot access web pages are published on the Internet. IVA Certified ballot access petition circulators will obtain valid petition signatures to put more candidates, parties, and issues on the ballot in each state. Each State IVA will issue a certificate for each "IVA Certified Petition Circulator." Local IVA web page managers will receive a well earned "Local IVA Web Page Manager" certificate when their Local IVA web pages are functional and published on the Internet in their Local IVA community. Fix Democracy: Open Final Five Primary Elections followed by RCV General Elections will ensure election of every candidate by a minimum 50% proactive voter majority. Every voter will have confidence that his/her vote is/was considered in every election on their ballots. Election of every candidate to public office, achieved by Local proactive voters, will lead to government of, by and for the people. You and me. We are the 99.999%! We are a super majority who can elect nonpartisan and minor party candidates we choose to every public office. Confidence in our elections and our institutions will be restored. Unite America. Save democracy. Up to you. :IVA Idea (Top of Page) (Your Voice)  Zoom   Nonpartisan Leadership: IVA Priority: IVA Web Pages for Every Voting Precinct You can put in as much time as you like to manage IVA web pages for your community, precinct, town, county, or congressional district. Get a free hamcoOHIVA.zip template on a Mini-CD or CD-R from any IVA Web Page Manager for material costs, under one dollar. The ZIP template includes all the easy instructions you will need to set up and manage your IVA web pages. Submit the completed hamcoIVA PDF GDoc Leadership Form to join the Hamilton County leadership team. The free zip file can be received by email, hamcoOHIVA.zip . Create and Manage IVA web pages for your Local Community or Electoral Area where you live and vote. :Leadership (Top of Page) (Your Voice)  IVA Leader Page Zoom Occupy   Occupy elections. Vote against two-party career incumbents! Use ballot access petitions to Participate in power. Be a proactive petition circulator and Election Day participant. Be a proactive citizen in your voting precinct. A Little Effort. A Lot of Liberty Welcome to the populist Proactive Voter Movement. Participate. Zoom Occupy Acting_Local_IVA_Co-Chair, Acting Co-Chair, Hamilton County OHIVA, Email   ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (Your Voice) hamcoOHIVA PDF GDoc Leadership Form | End of Page Contact a Nearby IVA and Host a Meet up in Your Home or Dorm IVA Leader Page  Zoom Occupy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Local IVA Pages Guide: (IVA Priority) Certify Petition Circulators (Leader) THIS PAGE Manage IVA Web Pages (YOUR VOICE) Zoom Meet ups, Coffees, and Speakers (MEETING) (Saturday) (Monthly) (Not Required) (Petitions/Web Pages) Nonpartisan Candidates on Your Ballot (Initiative/Party) Active Petitions (Nonpartisan Candidate) Can You Stand for Public Office? (Qualify at 18 yrs.) (Gen X, Y Issues) (Your Privilege) Proactive Citizenship (Directory) Countywide Local IVA Home Page Links (Directory) Precinct Local IVA Home Page Links (Download, Print) Local IVA Documents (A Civics100 Lesson) Political ID Card (Links to Learning) Study Hall, Today's Politics (Positive, Creative Blogs) Sounding Board (Improve the Politics We Live With) (Referenda) Ohio Ballot Initiative Ideas Page (Ohio Income Tax Credit) $50 for your Political Use (hamco at cs2pr.us) Local IVA Email ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (Directory) Ohio IVA Central Committee (Members Needed. Your Voice?) ------------------------------------------------------------------------   Leader | Concepts | IVA Idea | hamcoOHIVA.zip                            IVA Page Guide | Top of Page Local IVA Home Page | State IVA Home Page | National IVA Home Page ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Web Page Manager, Web_Page_Manager, Email, Hamilton County OHIVA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ballot Access for the Populist Voter Majority! Independent and Minor Party Voters Welcome! New Voters, Too! Occupy   One Vote   We can elect candidates who represent the economic interests shared by 99.999% of our citizens. Not the 0.001 of 1.0%! Main Street. Not Wall Street Billionaires!! We Are The 99.999%! Occupy Elections. Everybody Vote! Your_Voice Free Political Tools Top of Page IVA Leader Page  Zoom Occupy Bad News. Voter Apathy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IVA Web pages created and developed by RLS Design Copyright 1999-2022 by Richard L. Stevenson Permission to link on other web pages is given provided notice  is given to the Independent Voters Alliance (USAIVA) by Email Please use "IVA Link Notice" as the Email subject. We seek links to nonpartisan political web pages. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Also created and developed by RLS Design Common Sense II Political Reforms Copyright 1997-2022 by Richard L. Stevenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Top of Page IVA Leader Page Zoom Occupy           Comments On Web Page Location: After the corporate takeover, Yahoo! decided to close GeoCities in late 2009. The first IVA strategy for publishing Free IVA web pages on GeoCities was gone. No free or GeoCities Plus accounts could be opened after the announcement was made. The culture of a large corporation killed the socially responsible "free web page" spirit of former Yahoo! owners.  The new business model leaves less incentive to provide for low cost web pages to encourage innovation and creativity. Greed closed one Internet road to low cost entrepreneurial startups. It seems to me competition will keep the cost of Yahoo! web page accounts at a moderate level. If not, we can move to other locations. Your Own Domain and Hosting Account: A Yahoo Web Hosting account can be used to publish a number of Local IVAs. A domain costs from $0.99 to $15.99. My "cs2pr.us" domain cost $9.99 from Yahoo or $8.99 from Go-Daddy.com. I paid $59.88 at $4.99 per month for the first year of Yahoo! web hosting. Yahoo includes my domain in the price for web hosting. I own the domain name and my account will be renewed on an annual basis by Yahoo at that price for the first five years! The next bill and year will cost about $120 for web hosting for the entire sixth year. I can decide to pay the domain fee on my own at any time and move my pages to any web host I choose. Some may cost less than Yahoo! or about the same. Competition will keep the monthly fee down. I own the domain name and can use it for as long as I continue to pay the annual ownership fee. I can sell the domain to the highest bidder. I own it. I can keep it as long as I retain ownership by paying the original annual registrant's fee. Your Account: I recommend Yahoo! Web Hosting for your Local IVA. You can use your domain to publish a number of Local IVAs with access provided for each specific IVA web page manager. Costs can be shared by several Local IVA page managers. You could publish your Local IVA on a domain owned by another IVA person or on a domain owned by you. Shop for your domain. Or share a domain. Or use a domain you already own. (See Above, Paragraph #5.) Old Web Page Procedure: All of the IVA web pages were originally written and edited in the MS Word 7 html editor. I switched to MS Front Page (June 2002) as the editor of my choice. I was a 58-year-old novice self taught on AOL Hometown web hosting and then putting IVA pages up on http://geocities.yahoo.com/, Yahoo's free web space, up to 15 Mb. I do keep learning as I go. I could still use some expert help from the computer generations. My high school friend, Jim Reed, has been a tremendous help in my discovery of Front Page and in learning editing pathways I did not know existed. Jim is a computer pro. Beginning in March 2003 I paid $4.95 per month for GeoCities Plus to be rid of all the pop-up ads on my pages. The monthly fee also raised the storage from 15MB to 500MB, and the "bandwidth" or data transfer limit was increased from 3GB to 25GB per month. This was a definite improvement for a fairly reasonable price, $59.40 per year. (Increased to $6.95 per month, $83.40 per year, in October 2008. The policy change was due to a merger and new management. It was the prelude to the end for Free GeoCities pages! My account, "dist1oh," included several hundred web pages under development for personal and political projects over the years since 1996. The monthly fee removed the distraction and irritation of pop-up ads from my pages for every page access by a visitor to my pages. One project still is the design of Model Public Office election campaign materials and pages, to provide a totally free template for use by all moderate nonpartisan candidates. For your single-purpose Local IVA web pages, a free Local IVA directory on a domain owned by another IVA participant may be all you need to manage your web pages. The lack of pop-up ads is nice. You can own your own domain later if want to upgrade your personal Internet presence. For example, if you manage political campaign pages you may see an upgrade as necessary to manage all the pages you publish. With the above exceptions, it seems to me the whole IVA operation can be run for very low costs shared with innumerable IVA participants. Very low cost with IVAs up and running in all 50 states. I donate all of my time for free. And I see the IVA as composed entirely of participants who donate a little time and pocket change to The Proactive Voter Movement for open ballot access and equal political speech. Your youthful energy is much needed to transform our world. The future belongs to the young and the future will be created by the young. Ballot access petitions can be completed within days or weeks with each participating IVA Petition Circulator getting just one to ten signatures. Nonpartisan candidates and minor parties will then have energy and time to campaign for public office. We will change our political system from a bipartisan two-party monopoly dictatorship to a nonpartisan independent proactive voter political system. Our headquarters are on our computer desktops and the Internet. We will have a more democratic republic. RICH STEVENSON, Interim Acting Local Co-Chair (Top of Page) (Your Voice) Zoom Occupy :Comments   Leader | Concepts | IVA Idea | hamcoOHIVA.zip | IVA Page Guide