Newsgroup: it.politica
Titolo: >> Do Italian Voters want PROXY VOTES in the European Parliament? <<

Before Usenet, voter silence on public issues was understandable.
Today it is reprehensible.
            !!  TOWN MEETING of the WORLD  !!
            *  *    Ask, And You Shall Receive   *  *
To all Italian Citizens of the New Europe:
     Please take a few minutes to answer the following fundamental
question for the guidance of the Framers of the New Europe, your
National Government, and your fellow Usenet citizens around the world.
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                           POLITICAL SURVEY:
                           Do European Voters want 
                     INDIVIDUAL PROXY VOTES 
                        in the European Parliament?
     Sadly, the New Europe is forming according to Ancient Customs.
     Its traditionalist framers seem to have not a single original
thought or ideal regarding any social system, whether the subject be
politics, economics, civics, religion, language, demographics, or
standards.
     This blind traditionalism is appalling since the New Europe
should be formed according to the highest standards imaginable for an
Advanced Modern Human Civilization.  It should not be formed according
to the same old decrepit tribal social systems developed by those
Neanderthal Cavemen whom our grandfathers preferred to emulate.
     The simplest of these ideal modern social systems to adopt is an
Individually Representative Republican Legislature. 
    This can be readily achieved simply by allocating to each
first-class European citizen an Individual Proxy Vote in the future
European Parliament, plus their own personal choice of the
Parliamentarian whom they desire to represent them and to cast their
proxy votes for them on all issues.
     To encourage the adoption of this new idea, all existing European
parliaments could tomorrow adopt this new vote-tallying practice for
their own national and local legislatures as a way of training both
themselves and their electors in its use.
     All that would be required is a simple right-shift of the decimal
point in the vote tallies of their regular votes.
     This new accounting technique would effectively give to each
legislator a BLOCK of votes equal in number to the number of electors
each represented.
     This is a simple one-man-one-vote concept which should be readily
understood by all voters and politicians.
     With a divisible BLOCK of votes - rather than a single personal
vote - each legislator could accurately represent as Individuals each
and every one of his electors on every single issue.
     Legislators could then solicit from electors their wishes on
every social issue through a single standard political questionnaire.
     The topics covered would include:  national defense, wars, alien
immigration, miscegenation, marriage laws, and race mixing;
inflation, unemployment, and economic chaos;  taxes, land rents,
resource royalties, and government spending;  traffic, congestion,
public slums, prostitution, and crime; national debts and interest
rates; world standards, environmental pollution, and global
overpopulation;  and our current grossly accelerating waste of
invaluable petroleum and other irreplaceable natural resources. 
    Voter preferences on all these and other issues could then be
tabulated, reported publicly, and used thereafter by all legislators
as both general and specific instructions that would guide their
future votes on all issues.
     Through this sensible modern voting technique, each and every
European voter could be accurately represented on every issue.  No
voter in any nation could thereafter complain that he or she was not
accurately represented in either their European Parliament or their
national legislature or even their local city Council.
     Should legislators alter their archaic voting practices to suit
modern social and technological conditions?
     No circumstances would change if they did.  Legislators would
still remain the same autocrats who could cast their block of votes
any way they chose - or as they were directed to vote by their
political and military bosses.  Those voters who declined to complete
their political questionnaires could continue to leave all social,
civic, religious, and political decisions to their owners and spend
all their time obeying orders and enjoying whatever freedom, leisure,
and wealth was allotted to them.
     The only difference that voters would notice would be the
ever-present opportunity to issue specific voting instructions to
their MPs on all those important major issues which happened to
interest them.
     They could also persuade their friends and neighbors to follow
their lead and to issue similar instructions to their MPs, who might
then choose to accurately represent them all - if they so desired.
.
     How can you encourage the early institution of this modern proxy
voting system?
     All that you may need to do is inform your current MPs of your
preference through either a personal letter, or several citizen
petitions circulated among neighbors; or responses to numerous
organized Usenet and E-mail surveys like the one below.  Legislators
may then comply by altering their traditional legislative voting
practice to suit the wishes of their petitioning constituents.
     The following survey provides one opportunity for interested
voters to inform politicians of their desires regarding Voter Proxy
Votes.  Other opportunities will follow once enough Usenet Voters
respond to this survey, and a more influential and effective approach
is organized and executed.
     By posting your response to the following question you will also
help educate your fellow European Electors about this opportunity for
instituting Voter Proxy Votes in both the European Parliament and your
national parliaments.
                  SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE
1.  Would you like your own INDIVIDUAL PROXY VOTE in the future
European Parliament, and in your national Parliament?
(   )   YES, I want my own personal Proxy Vote in those Parliaments,
plus my choice of the parliamentarian whom I prefer to cast my proxy
vote for me on all legislative issues.
(   )   NO, I DO NOT WANT my own personal Proxy Vote in any
Parliament, nor my own personal choice of legislative representatives.
Nor do I want Other Voters in Europe or my country to have Their own
personal proxy votes in any of their Parliaments, nor their choice of
representatives to cast their votes for them.  I prefer that all
voters be unwilling subjects to the ancient legislative voting
practice in which MPs are allowed to vote independently of voter
wishes - even if their votes are immoral, inhuman, and contrary to the
best interests and wishes of their electors.
(   )   I HAVE NO PREFERENCE.  Both the modern and the traditional
parliamentary voting practice is acceptable to me.  I will let other
voters decide which they prefer and support the wishes of the majority
for either this sensible new parliamentary voting reform or for the
continuation of the old voting practice.
(   )   NEITHER VOTING PRACTICE is acceptable to me.  I do not approve
of the existence of Any legislature anywhere, and I will do Nothing to
support Any Improvement in Any existing governmental practice.
(   )   Other:
About yourself:
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                         in the European Parliament?
 I haven't understood a single thing of how this new system works.
 If you don't explain it clearly, how can people reply ?
 Please repost shorter and clearer explanation