Briefly 2

This is a follow-on to the first 1-pager.

PeopleCount: Nuts and Bolts, and Top Benefits

This is another short description of PeopleCount. The ideas aren't complex, but it takes time to show how this platform will lead to real change.

The first part of the platform has been tried on a few sites:

You vote on issues and see the results

It STARTS to make a difference, but not enough to be compelling. Not many people came to the sites. Plus, their growth strategies were poor And the products had serious defects. Many let users create issues. Often this swamped users with redundant and poor-quality questions.

The second part is really the crux, where, on an issue you can:

check a box demanding reports if the issue is important to you,
read (or watch) reports and grade them
see average grades

This is where several things happen

you get to give feedback (with more feedback, later)
you get to know your representative and the challengers on the issues important to you
your politician gets to reach you on the issues important to you, rather than only on those issues advantageous to the party strategy
your politician reports in the context of what voters want, so they're under pressure to satisfy the voters, not the parties
your politician pays a low fee for this, supporting the platform.

Note that this also

Increases competition- any serious candidate will be able to afford to use PeopleCount.
Lessens or reverses the incumbent advantage - half of the issues will be those that surveys tell us most Americans agree on. Challengers will be able to point out that these issues are not new and the incumbent has done nothing on them. Plus they'll be able to say, "I'll be your first representative that's accountable to you always, not just before the next election!" While incumbents who participate can say the 2nd sentence, I expect incumbents to mostly avoid PeopleCount until more they get bad grades for not participating, and more voters participate.
When enough people use the site, this will significantly lower campaign costs. We plan for many members of Congress to continue using the site while in office. If they're actually responsive to voters, they won't need to fundraise while in office or mount much of a re-election campaign.
For elected officials who are actually representing voters well, they'll need little money and thus money will have much less power in politics.

Note that some of the first issues on the site will be ones on which 90% or more of voters agree (according to surveys). To lessen their do-nothing reputation, Congress might act on these before the first election where PeopleCount's in use.

For more information, see this introduction, and our blog.