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We can transform our political system.

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.

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

We'll start a crowdfunding campaign in December, to hire a team and build the site. Please contribute at least a few dollars to raise its popularity, too. Donors will get early access and be able to contribute their donations to candidates.

The book's purpose is to inform people about this new analysis and possibility in detail, to create in our culture that it's actually possible- without fighting each other- to fix politics. It will direct people to the mailing list and the crowdfunding campaign. The hope is that it'll generate some press, be an accomplishment that will bring attention and interviews, and that the marketing will be successful so it'll reach a large enough audience for the 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.

The problem? Politicians are not accountable to voters. Elections deliver only a tiny bit of accountability. The media can bring 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, answering questions and emails. But that is not enough. It doesn't deliver true accountability.

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

In the first year after PeopleCount's launch, expect to see the power of money and partisan division lessen. Expect new, less-partisan challengers to run effective campaigns. And expect legislation that most Americans desire to pass, 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.

Please:

Please, add your email to our quarterly mailing list. It's our only way of reliably reaching you. After you sign up, look for the confirmation email- including in your junk/spam folder, and tell your mailer it's not spam.

PeopleCount's purpose is to fix democracy, not to make money. PeopleCount is strictly non-partisan. And 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.

I promise.
Rand Strauss
650-861-1537

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