The Legislative Political Party, or LPP as it will be known for the rest of this document, will use apps and volunteers to generate metrics to determine how to vote. Each app will have its own definition in this document that will consist of a fictional account of how the app will work and what metrics it will generate. Currently the party has only three apps. The primary app is called the legislative inbox and its supporting app is called the wedge issue app. The final app is called the hitlist app. We also plan to follow the Quality Of Life Rule which you can read the definition of at the provided link.
The way it works is that everybody in the country should look around and find everything non-controversial around them that a legislative body should be doing. For this example, we will use a fictional guy named Fred who works at a dam that is falling apart. He notices this but government funds don’t allow the dam to be fixed. When the dam fails a city loses its water. Fred sees this and fills out a ticket on the LPP website. At this point the ticket gets reviewed which has two parts. The first part is that a political science expert determines if the ticket is indeed in the purview of the legislative body that the ticket is written against. If this is the case then the ticket is reviewed by a committee of five volunteers. The volunteers will consist of two people who identify themselves as having conservative political leanings, two people who identify themselves as having conservative political leanings, and one person who identifies themselves as not caring but they just want to see the job get done. If the review determines the ticket to be non-controversial and not a wedge issue then the ticket will be placed in the Legislative body’s inbox where if the issue is controversial and a wedge issue then it will be sent to the wedge issue app. The non-controversial issues will wait in the inbox until one of two things happen. First the legislative body fixes it, in which case it goes to a bin called “Stars for legislative body”. The other option is that they try to fix it and the legislation fails because of riders or it is attached to a bill that has other objectional stuff. If this occurs then it will be moved into a bin called “legislative body declined to fix it”. All three boxes will be public viewable all the way down to the specifics of each ticket. Finally, the day after election, “Stars for legislative body” will be archived and the “legislative body declined to fix it” will be moved back into the inbox. In this example, Fred’s ticket wound up in the inbox but the federal legislative body never even tried to address it.
There will be three percentages that will control the party votes. If the percent of tickets in the stars for the legislative body box, then this means the legislative body is functioning at an acceptable level. The party will then vote for all the incumbents in that election. If the majority of tickets are in the other two boxes then the legislative body is not functioning at an acceptable level. This will result in the party voting for the challengers. Tickets getting ignored mean that the legislative body is too occupied with arguing while “legislative body declined to fix it” means that the process itself isn’t functioning. If the process is not functioning then the party will have to figure out metrics that can be taken that show why the process is failing so that the party can customize its tools for the next election.
A ticket was received that was determined to be in the purview of the legislative body but it was also to controversial to be included in the inbox of the body. This ticket lands in the wedge issue app. Two volunteer debaters will be selected to take opposing positions and will have two weeks to prepare to debate the issue. Each will provide five minutes arguing their side and be provided a week to generate five minutes to rebut the opposing side. Then there will be a running tally kept of the members of the party's positions. The options available are "Pro Side A", "Pro Side B" and "I don't care".
If the legislative body ignores the collective will of the party by intentionally going against the "Pro Side" with the most votes then the party will vote to fire everyone in the legislative body at the next election. The party will rely on collective intelligence to determine the right course on wedge issues. The vote will consist of "Pro Side A", "Pro Side B" and "I don't care". The "I don't care" vote will be ignored. Meanwhile if either of the votes for "Pro Side A" or "Pro Side B" reaches 75% of the total population of the two categories and there are more then a thousand votes, the issue will be placed in the legislative body's inbox or into the legislative body's trash bin as determined appropriate from the vote. The vote will continue until the issue is resolved and if the vote becomes less lopsided and no side has more then 75% of the vote then the issue will be removed from the legislative inbox or trash bin and returned to the wedge issue app.
Sarah was watching the news and a politician acting in a way that was completely offensive to her. So Sarah decided to login and nominate to take a hit out on the politician. To take the hit out she had to fill out a form that gave her the opportunity to plead her case. Once that form was filled out it was presented to the party members for a month. If the month ends and the hit has at least two thousand votes then the party will make its decision. Only members of the party are allowed to nominate a hit on a politician.
If 75% of the people who voted decide to take a hit out on this politician then the whole party agrees to vote for the challenger when the incumbent term ends.