On TV Larry King thursday - Dick Morris converts to digital politics.
cnn.com
I have not yet visited this site and do not expect the price of
gold to yet be
one of the issues to vote on. Bill Murphy could contact this site thru
his GATA function
and suggest areas that the voting public should be aware of.
First before Bill Murphy does any official GATA contact, I invite all on
this thread
to recommend to this web site their views on the price of gold issue.
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Ex-Clinton advisor stumps for vote.com
Dick Morris converts to digital politics.
Claims his new e-ballot site is a 'major shift' in the democratic
process.
By Lisa M. Bowman, ZDNet News, November 1, 1999 3:12 PM PT
Former Clinton campaign strategist Dick Morris wants to put you in
closer
contact with your representatives than ever before -- provided your
congressmen and senators have time to wade through thousands of e-mails.
On Sunday, Morris and his wife Eileen McGann launched a new site,
vote.com that holds electronic ballots on such hot-button
issues as gun control, air safety and gay rights. Once voters have
cast their ballots and entered their ZIP codes, the site automatically
sends e-mails to their senators and representatives.
The site also features "Fifth Estate," a regular column written by
Morris,
who resigned as President Clinton's advisor over allegations that he
discussed White House affairs with a prostitute. Morris' debut column is
on First Lady Hilary Clinton's "flip-flop" run for the New York Senate
seat.
Morris also plans to sell his new book, "Vote.com"
-- a look at how the Internet is changing politics -- on the site.
Morris said he paid $250,000 for the Vote.com domain.
"We really see this fundamentally as a major shift in the whole
democratic
process," Morris said in an interview. "The idea is to force a
referendum
form of government through the Internet."
At the end of each poll, lawmakers receive a tally of their
constituents'
votes on that particular issue.
In addition, before an election, constituents who've used Vote.com will
get
an e-mail detailing how their lawmakers voted on a wide variety of
issues.
And if merely casting a "yes" or "no" vote isn't enough, the site also
has a chat room where people can discuss the issues with each other.
Morris expects to hold votes on more than 40 issues at one time.
Morris expects the net result of this to be more than 4,000 daily
e-mails
for each representative and exponentially more for the senators.
"If the congressmen ignore you, it will be at their peril," Morris said.
"This elevates level of dialogue between congressmen and their
constituents."
Morris denies that he's creating spam, saying voters deserve contact
with the people they've elected. "Anyone who thinks that e-mail from the
people who sent him to Washington is spam is pork," Morris said.
Right now, the site makes its money from banner ads, but in the future,
said Morris, he also might do research for clients and data mining.
But he won't sell the information on people's voting habits, he said --
data that many a campaign strategist would be eager to receive. Instead,
he said he may forward information from groups such as gun-control
advocates onto people who've submitted votes on the issue to his site.
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I recommend to all those that wish to see the price of gold reflect its
true value as a store of value for nations to contact Bill Murphy at the
following locations and pressure him to contact this vote.com place so that
the public can vote on how they feel towards gold.
Bill Murphy
Chairman, Gold Anti Trust Action (GATA) gata.org
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