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Independent
Voters
Alliance
(USAIVA)
United
States
of
America
2nd
IVA Priority: Manage
Local IVA Web Pages
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 State IVAs will be through email addressed to the Interim Acting Chairperson indicated on
each State IVA web page. Local IVA and State IVA organizational goals in
each state will be reached
when there is a Local IVA published for every County and precinct all over
the state, with a minimum of 9 IVA certified petition circulators in
every
local precinct (e.g., over 110,000 statewide OHIVA participants/leaders in
Ohio). Local, State and national headquarters are located on the computer, tablet
and cell phone
desktops of Local IVA web page managers.
Acting State IVA chairpersons and officers will be elected when the State
IVA has an acting
Central Committee in place that satisfies state law pertaining to
Minor parties with ballot access. All IVA 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 State IVA officers in each
home state.
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 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 centrist 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 open clean elections
and clean government possible to provide for the common good of our people.
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The
IVA page below was written with State of Ohio IVA web pages shown as the model
state IVA web pages. You
can replace "OH" Model IVA references with references to your
state when your first County IVA pages are published in complete agreement with
state law in your state.
Local
IVA Web
Page Manager —
Leader of
The Proactive
Voter Movement for Open Ballot Access
and Equal Political Speech
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IVA and State IVA Equal Political Speech Web Sites
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Read the
IVA License
Agreement. You must agree to the
terms of the contract or you cannot be an IVA web
page manager. The only financial obligation required of each web page manager is
to supply the work hours required (sweat equity) to create/edit/publish Local IVA
web pages where the IVA web page manager lives. The license is needed to maintain the IVA as an
all-participant
populist nonpartisan voter resource. The license protects the IVA from commercial exploitation and protects the "brand-name" integrity
of IVA web pages. Conformity in design will also facilitate easy updates of
Local, State and USAIVA pages as needed. Each new web page manager will make the
USAIVA.zip
and StateIVA.zip files freely available to all populist nonpartisans
interested in managing Local IVA web pages under terms of the license agreement.
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Get familiar with
the IVA web page files you will edit, publish and manage. The files are
located in a StateIVA.zip file or
USAIVA.zip file emailed to you as a free attachment or
included on the Free Tools
Mini-CD or CD-R available
from
any IVA Web Page Manager for
material costs,
under one dollar. There needs to be a
large distribution of IVA.zip files. For example, there are 11,366 voter
precincts in Ohio. IVA participants will eventually publish Local IVA web pages for each
voter precinct in all fifty states. (The USAIVA.zip file is used to create
the "State" and "Local" IVA pages for states where no
IVA is established.)
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An
IVA_Web_Pages_Function.pdf
lists
the function and name of each page within the overall IVA design concept.
Web pages for each Local IVA electoral jurisdiction will be in three IVA web page directories. One directory
each for a set of Local, State, and USAIVA web pages plus the graphics files used
within each set of pages. Each of the directories contain
"*.html" files of the same name for page functions
as needed in each of the three
directories, "local," "state" and "usaiva." A
"/pdf/" directory stores IVA Adobe Acrobat support documents for
download and free distribution by IVA participants.
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Your
Software: Determine the
html editor software you will use to edit the pages.
An IVA_Edit_Guidelines.pdf
file gives detailed instructions on how to edit files to be published on your Internet
domain. Details relating to
html language for
"visitor" counters, and other special features are included. There is
a cost-free way to do nearly everything.
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Your
Account: Choose the Internet domain where you will publish your IVA web
pages. Web page managers will use a personally owned domain or a domain owned by
another IVA participant who is willing to share costs or provide free space
to publish additional Local
IVAs. One objective is to minimize Internet costs for each Local IVA web
page manager. IVA web pages can be located on a domain hosted on a Turbify.Com Web
Hosting account. (Comments)
https://www.turbify.com/hosting
Each web hosting account provides "unlimited" Internet Disc Space and
"unlimited"
monthly use of bandwidth, data transfer capacity. Each Local IVA uses about six MB of
space for all web pages and support files. I used under
nine MB for all of my web page applications for several years. The web hosting
account is more than adequate to publish and manage several Local IVAs for
several Local IVA web page managers and to publish several model election
campaigns for public office. The location where you publish your Local IVA
pages is up to you. You can buy or share an appropriate domain name. Search
for available domain names:
https://www.turbify.com/domains
Use and share the domain you buy, or use authorized space on a domain owned
and shared by other IVA participants. Search "domain names,
purchase" and "webhosting, free" to study options.
Comparison shop domains and hosting at GoDaddy! as one option.
http://www.godaddy.com/domains/search.aspx?ci=14514&isc=yhkw124f
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Your
State: Select
Your
Home State
that your Local IVA web pages will serve. All County IVA
"IVAlocals.html"
links pages show countywide tables of all potential Local IVA electoral
districts/political subdivisions/public offices/and precincts located
in the County. An "IVAprecincts.html"
Local IVA links page will be added to show extensive precinct
tables where needed in very populous Counties with large metropolitan areas.
New IVA web page managers can choose to manage any unpublished Local IVA
where they legally reside. The Local, State, and USAIVA directories
published in each Local IVA contain an
IVAlocals.html
links page. The "State" "IVAlocals.html"
links page shows tables with links to all potential Local IVAs for
counties/ statewide offices/and Congressional offices in the state. The
"USAIVA" "IVAlocals.html"
links page shows a fifty state table with links to published State IVA web pages. Many
leadership opportunities are available to you in
the IVA. All Local IVA links shown on "IVAlocals.html"
links pages will contain phone and Email contact information for acting
Local, State, and USAIVA chairpersons.
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New
County IVAs: A County IVA is the
first Local IVA
created in each new IVA County. All other Local IVAs within each County IVA
will
use the same "IVAlocals.html"
and "IVAprecincts.html"
pages created to provide Local IVA links tables for the new County.
Each County Board of Election can supply the complete list of electoral
districts/political subdivisions/public offices/and electoral precincts needed
to create complete Countywide links tables to show all active Local IVA links in the County. All active Local IVAs in the same County will contain the
same tables of Local IVA links on the same two pages. The two pages provide a
public list of Local IVAs in the County for new people to contact to
become active in the creation of a clean political system with open ballot
access.
Publish
new Local IVA web pages immediately with an "Under Review for
Compliance with Local and State Law" notice placed at the top of each
"local" page.
Organization and participation
can proceed while the pages are edited to conform to political and legal
jurisdictions in the County and the Local IVA area. The
County IVA web page manager who creates these two very
important template pages, will also create a
County
IVA.zip template, and be
the Interim County Chair in the new IVA county.
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New
State IVAs: If you are creating the
first County IVA in
your State, the first "Local" and "State" pages will
need additional edits to conform to the laws of the new state. This task should
involve advice from seasoned political activists and/or competent legal advice
from an attorney familiar with election law in the new state.
Publish the
new State IVA web pages immediately with the "Under Review for
Compliance with State Law" notice located at the top of each
"Local" and "State" page.
Organization and participation
can proceed while the pages are edited to conform to the political and legal
conditions that must be confronted in the new State. The
USAIVA.zip
file is used to create each new State IVA. The first County IVA pages published
and edited to completely conform to state law in the new state will become the
model IVA pages for all "county pages" and "state pages" published in the new
state. The IVA Local links will be shown in each county adding activivated "IVA
Local" links as they are published. The activated county IVA Local links will be
shown on the state IVA Locals page as each new county is published. IVA Local
links are shown in tables on the local and state "IVAlocal.html"
pages. The
Local IVA web page manager who creates the model "State" pages will
also create the
State
IVA.zip template, and be
the Interim State Chair.
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IVA
Page Edit Guidelines: Edit the appropriate hyperlinks on all
of your html pages to contain your Internet directory names and to interact with
related web pages managed by other Local IVA web page managers. Edit all text
to show the name of your local and state web pages. Use the "find,
replace" feature of your edit program. My first edit program was MS Word
7. My current edit program is MS Expression. The latter gives much more control
over page appearance, and has more functions to edit, design and create pages. The edits needed to publish the IVA pages "as is" are confined to
simple text edits and hyperlink edits. A "batch" editor can be
used to do all simple edits on html pages in one or more selected directories.
No major design changes are necessary. We may want to keep the same appearance
on all IVA pages to have the same "brand-name look" on all IVA
web pages in every state. For Local IVAs within each state, the only edits to "USAIVA"
and "State" pages will be to edit all IVA hyperlinks so they contain
the correct "domain/IVALocal" address and to
edit
your local web page manager contact line near the bottom of every
"Local," "State" and "USAIVA" page. As few as two
batch edits are needed.
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Publish
Your Web Pages: This is simply uploading Local IVA web pages to
"your Internet domain." Once uploaded, in a matter of minutes, your IVA web
pages are published on the Internet. All new Local IVA web pages are published
with the "Under Review for Compliance with Local Law" notice
published at the top of each web page in the "local" and "state"directories. Your
IVA managed web pages will include your IVA leadership biography that you
create. Every IVA web page manager will create and publish a
"Leader1_bio.html" with the IVA pages they manage.
Inspire others to lead with your reasons for becoming an IVA leader.
Co-chairs will also publish a leader bio.html page.
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Manage and update less than
4 Mb of html pages. Keep the pages updated with
meeting information (local
Meeting.html),
nonpartisan candidate information, and Adobe Acrobat
ballot access petitions for download and use by IVA certified petition circulators. Minor party and initiative petitions are shown on
"Ballot_Access.html"
pages. Nonpartisan candidate web
page and petition links are shown on
"Non_Partisan.html"
pages.
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Links
to learning: List links to
local web pages that share Local IVA goals for political transformation and
that provide election information. Add links to
"Local_Links.html,"
and "Study_Hall.html"
pages to cover nonpartisan politics in the Local IVA area.
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Create and maintain
a database of IVA certified Petition Circulators who participate in your
"Local IVA" web page area. Use the database to
maintain an Email
list and Facebook pages to publish IVA news and petition events/activities related to nonpartisan candidates
and referendum petition campaigns seeking ballot access on the ballot in your
Local IVA web page area.
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Post and Maintain
updated information on all
populist nonpartisan and minor party candidates on the ballot in your web
page area. You
may delegate a page or pages to other participants to keep pages and
information up to date. Seek help as
needed. Other participants can research and maintain needed information.
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Share your ballot
access goals and triumphs with others. Inspire other participants to establish
web pages so the OH IVA and other State IVAs can grow to reach the goal of
Local IVA web pages for every voter precinct, county, and electoral district in
every state. During the growth phase, the OH IVA will certify 100,000 IVA
petition circulators to work for populist nonpartisan ballot access and
governance in Ohio. The nationwide goal is
eight to
ten IVA certified petition circulators in every precinct in every state.
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Clean
Elections: Our efforts will
elect clean nonpartisan public office holders to govern for our people in
a more
democratic republic.
Clean nonpartisan leaders will not serve the narrow bipartisan two-party
system or the special interests that now dictate public policy.
Rich Stevenson,
Interim
Acting USAIVA Male Co-Chair
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IVA Idea:
Local
IVA political cooperative 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
and ID card 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
all local 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.
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Nonpartisan
Leadership:
IVA Priority:
IVA Web
Pages for every Voting Precinct
You
can put in as much time as you like to run IVA
web pages in your community, precinct, town, county, or congressional district.
Get
a free USAIVA.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. Complete and submit the
USAIVA
GDoc Leadership Form
to request
your free no cost
USAIVA.zip
template.
Create and manage
the
IVA state web
pages
for your
state.
(Complete
and submit the
OHIVA GDoc
Leadership Form
to join the leadership team in Ohio. The free
OHIVA.zip
template
is for persons who live in OH.)
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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 nonpartisan Proactive Voter Movement.
Participate.
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STEVENSON,
Interim Acting
Male Co-Chair,
USAIVA,
Email
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USAIVA GDoc Leadership
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USA IVA
Page Guide:
Pages Not All Updated
(IVA
Priority) Certify Petition Circulators
(LEADER)
THIS PAGE Manage Local IVA Web Pages
(Your
Voice)
Zoom Meet
ups,
Coffees, and Speakers
(Petitions/Web
Pages)
Nonpartisan
Presidential
Candidates on State Ballots
(Nonpartisan
Candidate)
Can
You Stand for Public Office? (Qualify at 18 yrs.) (Gen X, Y
Invited)
(Your
Privilege)
Proactive Citizenship
(Directory)
State
IVA Home Pages
(Directory)
State
IVA Central Committees
(Download,
Print)
USAIVA 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)
USAIVA Ballot
Initiative Ideas Page
(usaiva
at cs2pr.us)
USAIVA
Email
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Model
State IVA Web Pages
(Ballot
Access)
Ohio IVA
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Model
Local IVA Web Pages (County, Community, precinct, etc.)
(Ballot
Access)
Hamilton County OH
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IVA
Page Guide
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Local
IVA Home Page
| State
IVA Home Page
| National
IVA Home Page
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Web
Page Manager, Web_Page_Manager,
Email,
Hamilton County OHIVA
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Ballot Access for the Populist Voter Majority!
Independent and Minor Party Voters Welcome!
New
Voters, Too!
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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!
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IVA
Web
pages created and developed by
RLS
Design
Copyright 1999-2023 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.
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Also created and
developed by RLS Design
Common Sense II Political Reforms
Copyright
1997-2023 by Richard L. Stevenson
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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 web page hosting accounts at a moderate level.
If not, we can move to other locations.
Your Own Domain and
Hosting Account: A
Yahoo Web Hosting account could 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 and $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/
(Ceased to exist in March 2019), 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
centrist 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 populist independent ballot access movement.
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 political system. Our headquarters are on our computer desktops and
the Internet. We will have a more democratic
republic.
Rich Stevenson,
Interim
Acting USAIVA Chair
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