Patent ID: 7953628

Claim:
A system to create aggregates of voters with similar preferred policy options to influence elections and policy-making in representative bodies, comprising: a plurality of user terminals operated by voters; a communications network, wherein the network comprises at least one of the Internet and a website on the Internet; a computerized database of n 1 objects located in a storage device on the network, each object representing a stance on a policy option of concern to voters; said user terminals are configured to periodically access the website, select any number of policy options from the computerized database of n 1 objects, and create policy agendas comprised of subsets of n 2 objects to represent voters' preferred policy options; said user terminals are configured to transmit via the website to a computerized database of n 3 subsets of n 2 objects located in the storage device on the network the preferred policy options contained in the voters' subsets of n 2 objects; said user terminals are configured to periodically query via the website the computerized database of n 3 subsets of n 2 objects and identify voters who have chosen policy options that are statistically similar to the querying voters' chosen policy options contained in their subsets of n 2 objects submitted to the database of n 3 subsets of n 2 objects; said computerized database of n 3 subsets of n 2 objects is configured to transmit to user terminals of querying voters a list responsive to the query; said user terminals are configured to query the database of n 3 subsets of n 2 objects, identify voters who have chosen policy options statistically similar to the querying voters' chosen policy options are configured to contact the user terminals of voters with similar policy options, and create aggregates of voters with similar policy options to act collectively to influence elections and policy-making in representative bodies; said user terminals operated by voters and others are configured to periodically query the computerized database of n 3 subsets of n 2 objects located in the storage device on the network to obtain and display on user terminals information regarding the preferred policy options of voters who have submitted their chosen options to the database, and changes, patterns and trends in preferences that correlate with geographical location and other factors.