REVOLUTION BY VOTE
Real Democracy Party (USA)
Question: How do I do the Revolution by Vote?
Answer: (by Vote) It's easy, legal and different.
No work, letters, calls, posters, marching, donations needed.
The Real Democracy Party IS NOT a third party.
How to Participate in the Revolution by Vote
The Revolution by Vote of 2018 begins May 1, 2018
[This document includes reasons why you would vote each way.]*
Small steps in participation for removing and replacing the two-party tyranny:
A) Getting started:
1) Read or study the six brief documents that describe the Revolution by Vote.
2) Share the information in conversation, text messages, emails, social media.
Say, "I'm thinking about voting against the two-party system."
B) Disable Gerrymandering (vote capturing):
3) If you register as a no-party voter (some districts call it "independent" voter) or change your previous party registration to "no-party" registration, you will be participating in the voting block plan to disable Gerrymandering which is also known as "vote capturing." A Gerrymandered district is given a distorted "Gerrymander" or salamander shape on a district map because it was deliberately contrived to capture an area that encloses a majority of voters registered with one of the two major political parties. Therefore, a Gerrymandered district is deemed to almost guarantee that the candidate of the controlling party will win the election in that district. Gerrymandering is also the reason for labelling districts as either red (Republican) or blue (Democrat). If most voters were registered as "no-party" voters, that corrupt practice of Gerrymandering and capturing district votes would be disabled. The candidates would have to listen to the voters in the district and talk to them about real issues instead of fogging campaigns with bullshit and false (moral) issues that are not the reason we elect representatives.
C) Be a "purple porpoise" or "purple gang" voter:
4) You can call yourself a "purple porpoise" or "purple gang" voter because you are registered as a "no party" voter rather than as a Republican (red) or a Democrat (blue). The purple porpoise icon used as the purple voter symbol is in the public domain, so you can use it in print or duplicate it on a tee shirt if you wish.
D) The No-cumbent voting block program:
5) If you wish, you can say that you are thinking of voting in the "No-cumbent" voting block, which means always voting for a new candidate and against the incumbent candidate. If you actually do always vote against the incumbent, you will be participating in the No-cumbent voting block. If successful, that voting pattern would enforce term limits for elected offices by votes only without any other legislative action.
6) The No-cumbent voting block has two goals:
One: to vote against any incumbent candidate who does not support political party coalitions and vote sharing;
Two: if the majority of voters did actually remove incumbents from office in every election, we would be enforcing office term limits by voting.
E) Actually voting for the Real Democracy Party:
7) On your ballot, you can write in "Real Democracy" for any legislative or executive office, especially for Congressional Representative or United States Senator, as well as for Governor or President of the United States. YOUR WRITE-IN VOTE for the Real Democracy Party means you are voting AGAINST the two-party system and FOR a return to a multi-party system that uses party coalitions (between a major party and a minor party, or parties) and vote sharing (the minor party donates their votes to the major party candidate in exchange for sharing policy and program power).
F) Voting totally against the two-party tyranny:
8) On your ballot, you can write in "Real Democracy" for any legislative or executive office. You can write in "John Manimas" for the office of United States Senator (from New York). If you vote this way, you will be participating in the voting block that votes completely against the two-party tyranny and for the Seven Principles of the Real Democracy Party. You would also be voting to elect John Manimas, a qualified candidate, to the office of United States Senator from New York. The effect of your vote cast this way is to put the two-party tyranny on notice that a movement is developing among the people to retire the two-party system and replace it with a multi-party system including logical and effective coalitions between major and minor political parties. If the Real Democracy Party receives as little as 1% of the vote, and a major party candidate needs that 1% to win the election, the RDP will enter into a coalition with that major party; the RDP will donate its votes to that major party IN EXCHANGE FOR A CREDIBLE COMMITMENT TO THE PRINCIPLES OF THE REAL DEMOCRACY PARTY AND CONCRETE AGREEMENT TO PROPOSE AND ACTIVELY SUPPORT PUBLIC POLICY ADVOCATED BY THE REAL DEMOCRACY PARTY. Once such a coalition is formed, voters will see that the multi-party system is more democratic than the two-party system because the multi-party system compels the major parties to share power with minor parties that could replace them if they do not respond to the voters' wishes.
9) Why write-in votes rather than state certification and printed name on the ballot? The reason for using write-in votes is to avoid election fraud by election officials. This has occurred since 1960. By discarding only a few votes the corrupt election officials can change the outcome of a two-party election. What happens is that the election officials are devoted to one political party or one policy, such as anti-abortion or white supremacy. They discard votes for the candidates or party they don't like by making stray marks on ballots or other manipulations of voting machines. That way they determine who wins the election after they have fraudulently discarded valid ballots. This cannot be done with a write-in vote because the intent of a write-in vote is perfectly clear and cannot be legally challenged. No one can argue effectively that a voter wrote in a party name or a candidate's name by mistake. A write-in vote clearly shows the intent of the voter and it has to be counted. There is no legally valid reason to discard a write-in vote.
10) Who would participate in these voting-block steps?
The votes that I, John Manimas, am asking for are the votes of the 40% of voters (about 100 million nationwide) who have not voted in presidential elections for the past 120 years. I believe the main reason they do not vote is because they do not trust the two party system, which is a realistic attitude. The two-party system functions as a tyranny of minority rule through its Four Lethal Flaws. Link to (Four Lethal Flaws). Replacing the two-party tyranny by voting as a massive block is the only practical way to fix our election system. The traditional grammar-school methods that are all variations of "expressing your opinion" will not work. Even if public protests rise to the level of active force, that kind of opposition will never work. It will just play into the hands of those who seek excuses to justify authoritarian government and suppression of all political opposition. The practical path is to vote them out of office until they no longer exercise power. The meaning of political "activist" has to change from one who shouts and carries a sign to one who votes in a voting block against the two-party system.
How to Have Elections Financed by Voters, Not Corporations
Another crucial principle behind participation in the Revolution by Vote is: Only voters should be permitted to contribute money for the campaign expenses of candidates. That means no contributions, NONE, should be included from any business source, not from a profit corporation, not from a non-profit corporation, not from a sole proprietorship, not from any business entity. If it doesn't vote, it doesn't make a contribution. The reason for this is simple. If money is accepted from business entities, it is unavoidable that the business entities will feel entitled to favorable consideration from the candidate after they are elected to the office. That means the office-holder has been paid, or bribed, to represent the self-serving interests of the business entity. AND, MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL, THAT MEANS THE OFFICE HOLDER IS NOT REPRESENTING THE CONSTITUENCY OF VOTERS WHO ELECTED HIM OR HER TO THE OFFICE THAT EXERCISES THE POLITICAL AUTHORITY OF THE PEOPLE. Clear. Again: The office holder got elected using political investment money from business entities. To those business entities, the payment of campaign contributions was a customary expense and an investment in the interests of the business, which IS NOT the interests of the people who reside in the voting population (district, city, town, county or state). This amounts to subversion of democracy, a political fraud, using the compensation and benefits of the officeholder to pay for corporate and business lobbying. It is deliberate misappropriation of tax funds. Voters can stop this practice by forming Policy and Program Citizen Election Committees, where the contributions come only from voters, and the candidates apply for a grant. This proposed safe election method is described in detail at (Citizens) Election Committee. [link to actual First Citizens Election Committee is under construction].