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America's political system needs to be fixed.

Currently, it's often divisive, disrespectful, dishonest, and undemocratic. Money has huge influence. The two parties have a tight hold on power. Congress is gridlocked due to extremist undemocratic elements. Our political system has evolved to encourage and reward these results.

Every major aspect of politics is broken. For each problem area, one or more special-interest organizations has been dedicated to fixing it with new legislation. But such legislation is almost never passed. When it is passed, it has little or no effect. Or like with campaign finance laws, it's soon undone.

PeopleCount has designed a new communication system that will transform our democracy. It will lessen the power of money and the parties, giving it back to voters. It will make it easy to pass popular legislation, but no new legislation is needed for this PeopleCount to begin.

We're publishing a book this fall, 2024. Please put your email address on our quarterly mailing list so you can help it rise in the charts and reach more people.

The book's purpose is to inform people about the new analysis, the root cause of our political problems, the solution, and what's possible.

Today, it's actually possible to fix politics, eliminate the power of money in politics, stop the parties from monopolizing power, and make our representative democracy work well.

The hope is that the book will generate some press, be an accomplishment that will bring attention and interviews, and will reach a large enough audience for a crowdfunding campaign to succeed.

We've done extensive research. Nothing like this has been done before. Many have had ideas, but they didn't design their sites to actually solve the fundamental problem in our political system.

America's political system has always had problems. It was intended to be a democracy without political parties. Yet they formed right away and no one ever investigated why. Until now, we never knew how to design a democratic political system that worked without parties.

The problem? Politicians are not accountable to voters. Elections deliver only a tiny bit of accountability. The media brings another tiny bit. Currently, it's impossible for members of Congress or the president to be accountable to voters. Many have stopped trying. At best, some try to be accountable in attitude, evasively answering questions. But that is not enough. It doesn't deliver true accountability.

True accountabilty is a relationship. Relationships are built on 2-way communication. PeopleCount defines accountability rigorously for politics and proposes a real solution. Your representative and senators will be accountable to you always- not just when campaigning.

In the first year after PeopleCount's launch, expect to see the power of money and partisan division lessen. Expect new, less-partisan and less-funded challengers to run effective campaigns. And expect Congress to pass legislation that most Americans desire, even though it has been ignored for decades.

It'll just require a few minutes of your time each month to help design our future and guide our officials to create it.

PS: If it's not obvious yet, PeopleCount is a pre-seed, pre-MVP startup.
If you have services to sell, we can't afford them.

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PeopleCount's purpose is to fix democracy, not to make money. PeopleCount is strictly non-partisan. Your information will be completely private. We need to raise approximately the amount of money used in one average successful congressional campaign. With that, we'll be your partners in fixing the whole political system, including vastly lowering the cost of successful campaigns.

Please share this with anyone you know who'd like to fix America's political system.
Rand Strauss