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To: long-gone who wrote (44405)	11/2/1999 9:31:00 PM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116762

Richard, 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. ZDNet > Tech News > Law & Politics > Ex-Clinton advisor stumps for Vote.com 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. The following is where the home page is. zdnet.com My only contact is a request for permission to post a specific article. Note: Do not copy or reference this SI Doug A K post, per see below. Copyright (c) 1999 ZDNet. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of ZDNet is prohibited. ZDNet and the ZDNet logo are trademarks of Ziff-Davis Inc.