Guide for RDP Volunteers, 2019, 2020

The Revolution by Vote

 

 

Recommended qualifications for officer of state RDP chapter (4 or 5 per state):

Law-abiding citizen, no criminal record, record of good citizenship and an abiding interest in democratic elections and majority rule.  Education and experience in public service projects or civil service employment is helpful.

 

Recommended qualifications and experience for State Electors Nomination

Committee (3 per state): 

Law-abiding citizen, no criminal record, record of good citizenship and an abiding interest in democratic elections and majority rule.  Education and experience in public service projects or civil service employment is helpful.

 

Recommended qualifications and experience for State Presidential Electors (number assigned by Electoral College system):  Law-abiding citizen, no criminal record, record of good citizenship and an abiding interest in democratic elections and majority rule.  Education and experience in public service projects or civil service employment is preferred.  Cannot be an employee of the federal government.  Any other federal or state rules for Presidential Electors. 

 

The state officers may enlist or hire voting members (voting on party business) of the Real Democracy Party, but all voting members in all states shall have the same identification requirements, reported to the Primary Campaign Committee, and the same limitations on party power or authority.   

 

For all State Officers, State Electors Nomination Committee Members, and for all State Presidential Electors, there are identification requirements, procedures for communications, and limitations on party power or party authority.

 

 

Identification requirements:  Name of course; location/contact information; date of birth, place of birth, government agency where certificate of birth is on file (for example a state department of health); years of formal education including date and place of a college degree or degrees – associates, bachelors, masters, doctorate.  Work resume or summary of employment history with emphasis on primary experience and primary fields or work of interest; initial work or participation volunteered. 

 

Procedures for communications:  Technically, by email, phone, letter, online posts, printed publications.  Procedurally, any person is free to talk to others, privately or publicly, about the Revolution by Vote, but no one represents the Real Democracy Party, or John Manimas, or the Revolution by Vote if they make a statement that contradicts what John Manimas or properly elected officers in New York State have posted in writing on the website, or in the printed publications, of the Real Democracy Party USA.

 

Limitations on party authority:

Officers, voting members and non-voting members of the Real Democracy Party U.S.A. are permitted to exercise all of the legal rights and powers described in their state law with regard to organization, meetings, and activities of a political party, EXCEPT FOR THE SUBJECT MATTERS THAT DEFINE THE UNIQUE MISSION OF THE REAL DEMOCRACY PARTY AND REVOLUTION BY VOTE.  No party members, including the Primary Campaign Committee in New York State, shall have the power to change either (A) the Election Reform Platform or (B) the mission of the Revolution by Vote to use the write-in vote for John Manimas as the means to demand election reforms and to begin or complete the retirement of the “two-party system.”

 

 

No national or state party committee shall have the power to change:

 

The Election Reform Platform or Seven Principles of the Real Democracy Party U.S.A.; or

 

 

The original mission of the Revolution by Vote, namely, the purpose and function of the write-in vote for John Manimas is to deliver and record an active protest vote instead of the passive protest of abstaining from voting; or

 

The appeal of this campaign and project is to the 40% of eligible voters in the U.S.A. who have statistically not voted since 1900 and NOT to any citizens who are registered as party members or who habitually vote for one of the two major parties who work together in the two-party system to suppress the development of competing political parties.