Empower an informed electorate.
The Mandate Democracy® initiative changes the way citizens interact with their elected officials. Referendum voting and Democracy Citizenship Community Centers™ deliver education and empowerment directly to We the People.
What the initiative delivers
- Referendum voting on policies & budgets: the questions that actually govern daily life
- Universal online suffrage — One Person, ALL PERSONS, One Vote
- Counted-as-Cast: only the voter sees their votes, so each vote can be personally verified
Wherein the People themselves decide directly all matters within their reach and competence.
— Thomas Jefferson
Supermajorities back these reforms.
| 61% | believe "significant changes are needed in the fundamental design and structure of American government" | Pew |
| 67% | support "a democratic system where citizens, not elected officials, vote directly on major national issues to decide what becomes law" | Pew |
An end-to-end system of governance.
Operational Network
National infrastructure, organized by congressional district
Fact-Based Options & Information
Independent, national subject-matter experts
Enhanced Voter Participation
Integrated registration, accessible over the Internet
Multi-Disciplinary Academic Research
Platforms for tailored studies and analysis
Focused Citizen Education
Cut through the noise: basic information, clear choices
Technology Enabled
Web-based online voting: cyber-secure, verifiable, locked
Mandated Referenda Options
Tax & spend, policy & issue choices
Politically Welcomed
A platform plank for candidates & officials
Citizen Initiative
No partisan, ideological, or corporate agendas
Coalition Network
Caltech alumni, universities, public-interest groups
Our governance has collapsed.
The government has seized up and shut down. Decades of deterioration have left a perpetual state of worsening gridlock and factionalism. We are a frustrated People with unmet needs and aspirations.
On this there is unanimous agreement: we shouldn't tolerate the dysfunction. We can surmount an obsolete, corrupted two-party stranglehold.
Put sovereignty back where it belongs: in the hands of the People. With an online ballot box, We the People can overcome the party debacle, a modern embodiment of Abraham Lincoln's government of, by, and for the People. Mandate Democracy®.
Just listen to the Left, to the Right, to the Founding Fathers. We were warned.
The Founding Fathers warned us.
The alternate domination of one faction over another… is itself a frightful despotism… sooner or later bringing the ruins of Public Liberty.
— George Washington, First President
There is nothing that I dread so much as a division of our republic into two great parties… to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.
— John Adams, Second President
If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
— Thomas Jefferson, Third President
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power… the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power…
— James Madison, Fourth President
Let every man beware of an obstinate adherence to party… to decide not a particular interest, but the very existence of the nation…
— Alexander Hamilton, First Treasury Secretary
Left, Right, and the press agree.
Congress and the political parties have decayed to the point of uselessness.
— David Brooks, New York Times
Could it be that both parties are doomed? Like two punch-drunk fighters leaning on each other in the 12th round.
— Jonah Goldberg, National Review, AEI
…the hyper-partisan two-party duopoly [that] has kept Washington too divided, too dysfunctional and too directionless for too long.
— Joe Scarborough, "Morning Joe"
Something is permanently broken in our politics.
— Andrea Mitchell, political journalist
The American people bear the price of a Washington that is totally dysfunctional.
— Leon Panetta, fmr. White House Chief of Staff
…an utterly broken political system. It is shattered. Are we fated in perpetuity to a cycle of revenge politics of self-interest, where the American people are not represented?
— Steve Schmidt, Republican campaign strategist
The warning was ignored. The remedy is built.
See how secure online referendum voting works, and what it takes to turn the People's voice into mandates their representatives answer to.