Zoe Zidbeck

My Interests:

Oxygen.

Favorite Quote:

Had I asked them what they wanted, men would have said faster horses.
-Henry Ford

About Me:

Ranked Ballot (RB) is the ranking of all candidates by each voter. Because it gives all combinations of programs, not just parties, an equal chance of winning & always provides real time alternatives to all proposals, it is the only thing that is completely just, lightfooted & self-controlled, ie: with brakes, reverse & overdrive. We imagine running on the single issue of RB, allowing a citizens advisory board based on “Organized Communications� (OC) to guide us in the rest. . The “additive� form of RB is first choices being counted & if noone has 50% then next choices being added in, & so on, until someone finally does. OC is small randomly assigned discussion groups electing reps to higher & higher levels by means of RB until one small group at the top necessarily names the next winner of the next election, thereby installing preferentiality virtually instantly, & inevitably globally, no matter what ladders are pulled up. You do the same, from the most local on up. Shouldn’t your group be the first, lest others avail themselves of this great advantage first? RB is the sole unchangeable plank & bylaw of the Preferential Ballot Party, the only practicable third party, & its self-organizing principle. ~~~~~ Because it always elects the candidate most exactly in the middle of all voting, RB is “top-dead-center-counter-extremist� & thus more anti-terrorist than all the many recent retrenchments combined. While RB would be equally useful for all else, its real power is perhaps most clearly shown in the case of Iraq. Unless the Iraqi Parliament comes to select its Prime Minister by RB, it may not hold, & the world will be in danger of going to war over some multi-ethnic city or oil well. (It would be a useful improvement for all other parliaments, tribal groupings, religious communities & collective leaderships as well.) Because it gives the Iraqi minorities a real say in which Shia gets chosen, RB is the only thing that will encourage them to support any plan more than perfectly inadequate con-federation. No more jumping back & forth between extremes & no more fear. Both more liberty and more community can be found in RB than in any ideology. Help put this powerful idea, in time, to as many as possible. The $15,000 cost of a single full-page ad in USA Today, enough perhaps to put it to virtually everyone on earth, would be repaid to a single person in a year & one half at the approximate pre 9/11 US annual defense spending of $10,000 per family. How can we ask it of others if we do not have it ourselves?