CHANGE | Innovation | Your Voice | CHANGE | IVA Page Guide |
Visitors |
Initial Publication: 01-01-01 Latest Revision: 10-09-21 rls |
Independent Voters Alliance (USAIVA) United States of America Motto: Freedom is Participation in Power* * Said Cicero, A Senator in the Forum of the Roman Empire around 2000 years ago No one can do it alone. It is up to you. So it is now, and always will be. Change is up to everyone. Together. ( Innovation)Increase your freedom through participation in nonpartisan IVA activities in the precinct and county where you vote. Your participation in nonpartisan politics can elect new political leaders. New leaders have the potential to get beyond the crippling bipartisanship so rampant today. We seek to dilute the bipartisan monopoly political power of Democrats (DNC) & Republicans (RNC) who control all local, state and national elections. The flood of special interest money into bipartisan politics has lowered trust in government. Most of our citizens are correctly convinced that corrupt career politicians do not represent them. (Innovation) (Top of Page) The Big Three Reforms, and Election Innovation 1 (Your Voice) (Top of Page) (Occupy) Can't Vote, Can't Contribute: New leaders elected without support from special interest money can help eliminate the appearance of wrongdoing by our leaders. Your Voice: Your highly selective vote for low budget highly qualified nonpartisan candidates, who accept campaign money only from eligible voters, will help elect leaders who have no financial conflicts of interest to interfere with the integrity of their civic leadership. Clean elections will help build public confidence in our political system. Clean government will provide representation for the 99.999% in all public offices. Equal Political Speech Amendment. Incumbent Turnover: The election of candidates who are self-term-limited is equally important to freedom and liberty. Public office must be embraced as a temporary public duty. In a "republic" all citizens are recognized as co-equals, equal participants. Corruption of public servants can be avoided only by widespread sharing of public office. A good public servant is not entirely dependent upon the public payroll for a livelihood. A Term Limits Amendment. Limit Lobbyists, Information Only: Integrity in public office is made possible by the financial independence of the office holder. Public office should never be considered as a "job" or "career." The obligation to "public interest" must preclude any self-interest on the part of the office holder. "Job security" for incumbents is the enemy of good public service. Special interests and lobbyist money create the career incumbent power structure that corrupts any two-party political system. Power creates arrogance in public office. Power corrupts. "Self-interest" eventually becomes the central motivation for all career incumbents. Career self-interest, not the free flow of lobbyist information, is the source of corruption. Equal Political Speech Amendment Result: The purpose of any special interest money given to legislators and executives will clearly be identified as bribery. Election Innovation: IVA Goal: Build the bottom-up Internet structure used by the populist nonpartisan Proactive Voter Movement to create open Final Five Primary Elections and RCV (Ranked Choice Voting) General Elections in every state.1 Have vote by mail2 for all eligible voters in every state.3 Equal Political Speech under the law. We are the 99.999%. Occupy Elections. Everybody Vote! Occupy local legislative and executive offices. Occupy all State Legislative and Executive Offices. Unite America. Occupy the U.S. Congress. Occupy the White House. IVA Activity and Leadership
(Innovation)
(Top
of Page)
(Occupy) The IVA goal is to elect highly qualified
populist nonpartisan and minor party candidates who will not take any special interest money. Candidates we
support with petitions and campaign participation will not have any strings attached to their offices and will be free to govern in the interests of all their human constituents, their entire electoral community.
You can participate in your precinct and county to reach the goal of 8-10 IVA certified petition circulators in every voting precinct (e.g. 100,000 statewide in Ohio). You can run IVA precinct or community web pages on your personal home computer, tablet or cell phone at no cost. Without you, nothing will happen. You could even stand for public office to serve your fellow citizens. If not you, who? If not now, when? USAIVA PDF (Gdoc) Leadership Form
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. Read the national IVA web pages: cs2pr.us/hamco/usaiva. Participate Zoom
Sign the pledge. RICH STEVENSON, Interim Acting Chair, USAIVA, Email
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------ USAIVA
Pages Guide:
(Your
Voice) THIS
PAGE Motto
Page (IVA
Priority) Certify Petition Circulators (Your
Voice)
Manage
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
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Model
State IVA Web Pages
(Ballot
Access)
Ohio IVA
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Model
Local IVA Web Pages (County, Community, precinct, etc.)
(Ballot
Access)
Hamilton County OH
----------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGE
|
Innovation
| Your
Voice
| CHANGE
Local
IVA Home Page
| State
IVA Home Page
| National
IVA Home Page
------------------------------------------------------------------------
We can elect
candidates who represent the economic
Main Street. Not Wall Street Billionaires!
We Are The 99.999%!
Occupy Elections. Everybody Vote!
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright 1999-2022 by
Richard L. Stevenson
Permission to
link on other web pages is given provided notice
Please use "IVA Link
Notice" as the Email subject.
Copyright 1997-2022 by Richard L. Stevenson
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Footnote:
1. The Politics Industry,
Gehl/Porter, Harvard Business Review Press, 2020: Learn
more at https://gehlporter.com/ and
Institute for Political Innovation: https://political-innovation.org/final-five-voting/
(https://cs2pr.us/IVA_Opinion/VoteByMail.html)
3.
Forward Party:
https://www.forwardparty.com/ ,
Join
Forward, Notes on the Future of Our Democracy, Andrew Yang,
Crown, New York, 2021. "Civic Juries" mentioned by Yang would be
completely fulfilled in the nonpartisan Proactive Voter Movement and would
be supported by "The Proactive Voter Pledge" presented in the proactive
pamphlet. The Local IVAs are "Civic Juries" in action.
https://cs2pr.us/Proactive_Pledge.html#99% . Be a Proactive Voter.
Occupy elections. Unite America.
CHANGE
|
Innovation
|
Your Voice
|
CHANGE
|
IVA Page Guide
|