---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Robert Steele <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 8:54 AM Subject: Update on Electoral Reform Act, New Electoral Reform Summit To: [email protected] Dear Colleagues, The Statement of Demand has been smoothed out, the most important fix being changing fascism to plutocracy. It is in version 3.4. The Electoral Reform Act of 2012 has attracted an astonishing range of contributors, aided by Gordon Cook's book on Eva Waskell, her contribution of the eleven Election Integrity Principles from Gail Work and others; we also have the 18 year old vote crowd, the Hand-Counted Paper Ballots (HCPB) crowd, and most recently, the experts at electology.org. With version 3.8 up and 3.9 to be posted tomorrow, I believe we are close to a "collective intelligence" version that can go to labor unions, my next focus of effort. Today I communicated the existence of the Act to all of the political parties except for the Democractic and Republican parties. I have been heartened by immediate feedback, with two party leaders (Reform and Light) getting in touch with me personally. I have told all of them that I believe an Electoral Reform Summit in early December could serve a unifying purpose, and that if the political parties came together with Occupy on this "one thing," we could have ourselves a considerable majority going into 5 January. Next week I will do the same thing with the labor unions. I have no idea where this is going to end up, but the list of electoral reform Paul Reveres is growing, the substantive contributions to the Act have been stellar, and I believe that what we are doing is necessary and righteous. We may not succeed, but I have the beginning of a feeling that this is moving at the right speed for a 5 January national demand. After the labor unions I will focus on finalizing the national list and organizing constituent delegations to each Senator and each Representative at their home offices over the holiday period, to ensure that each of them is confronted with constituents demanding action and specifically co-sponsorship of the Electoral Reform Act of 2012 as the price of their remaining in office. I continue to update this central link: http://tinyurl.com/OWS-ER-HO Semper Fidelis, Robert -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens