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
- Political media industrial complex
- 2020 election
- Tom
- Have the population enjoy the process of voting
