August 2018 Voting Systems Meetup

• John, Colleen, Scott, Eric, Tom 
• John raised money for Govurn
• Actions
• Research feasibility of 'Make voting a holiday'
• Wherever voting suppression exists, defeat it
• Make a poll on Loomio and share in Slack
• Introduce Todd Goerke to John about blockchain
• Reach out to Barbra's list of people
• Watch Pinion video
• John and Scott talk
• Eric talk to Scott about how he can help
• Eric talk to John about lobbying Olympia about self sovereign and blockchain
• Scott send us videos and links
• Charter
• Values
• Non-partisan
• Action-oriented
• Future focused
• Affiliation/Community
• Exploration/Experimentation
• Scope
• Preference of local.  State max.
• Goal(s)
• Explore civic engagement and how that informs the betterment of our voting systems 
• Test things like voting on a holiday
• Agenda
• Friendly national orgs, local orgs
• Headwind
• IE info
• Indivisible info
• Our identity and purpose (scope, type), mission, vision, values
• PESTLE framework
• Upward and downward communications
• Younger generation
• Scott seeking help on his startup, Pinion.  Cool social voting sentiment app.
• Scott helping with Board Election for the R Chain Co-Op
• Proof of Stake
• Decentralized consensus building
• Drivers of not voting
• Fun
• Correlation
• Shame for not voting
• Get people to care, engage and feel agency up front
• Requirements to be approved to vote
• Only the elected officials can change the election system
• Strategy ideas for Pinion
• Start with kids voting for celebrities
• Buzzwords, etc.
• Self sovereign identity link
• Prediction market link
• Scott financing plan
• Crowdfunding campaign
• User owned and driven company
• Equity crowd funding link
• Methods
• Direct Democracy vs. Representative Democracy
• Representative aspect missing now
• Ranked Choice Voting - John for
• Orgs
• change.org - petitions
• Political media industrial complex
• 2020 election
• Oprah vs. Trump
• Tom
• Have the population enjoy the process of voting