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Initial Proposals

This section contains a list of proposal titles. New proposals can be presented by anyone. To the left of the proposal title is the count of upvotes, down votes and overall ranking. Upvotes, minus downvotes (Adjusted Upvotes) equals ranking number. The proposals are displayed with the highest ranking proposals at the top of the list. There is a link anyone can click to fill out a form which will post their proposal in the Initial Proposals list.

Clicking on the proposal title will take you to the initial voting area associated with that proposal. For example, clicking on, "Why We Must Occupy Mars," will take you to a page where the person submitting the proposal presents their argument for why their proposal should become official policy. Buttons to upvote or downvote are located at the bottom. The original author of the proposal will be able to edit the text here until it eventually moves to the Official Proposals page where actual voting occurs, when no further editing by the author is allowed.

Beneath the Proposal Description are two columns. The left has a heading of "for" and the column on the right has a heading of "against." Beneath the headings are buttons which allow anyone to comment in one or both of the two columns. Comments already posted appear in these two columns, with buttons to vote the comment up or down. Comments having the most upvotes after subtracting downvotes (highest ranking) are presented near the top in both columns.

Upvoting and downvoting in this way ensures that the most popular proposals are presented where they are more likely to be reviewed by voters, while the less popular proposals move down the list.

Since new proposals will have no upvotes, they would normally appear only at the bottom of the list where they would be lost in the clutter. That is why the Initial Proposals page includes a link to a list of Most Recent Proposals, with the most recent presented first.

Official Voting

Once any proposal reaches a predetermined number of Adjusted Upvotes, the proposal is moved from the Initial Proposal page to the Official Voting page. This first page lists the proposal titles much like the Initial Proposals page, along with "for" and "against" accumulated numbers. Clicking on the title takes the voter to the Official Voting Page for the proposal related to that title.

The Official Voting pages change at the beginning of each month, with the top 100 proposals in terms of Adjusted Upvotes being displayed. Voting is continuous, so people can vote whenever it is convenient for them. At the end of the month, proposals with a predetermined number of Adjusted Upvotes are moved to the Adopted Policies page.

The Official Voting page for each proposal will display:

In order to remove any Adopted Policy, someone must initiate an Initial Proposal intended to do just that. The proposal will then go through the same process as any other proposal, and if successful the Adopted Policy in question would be removed from both the Adopted Policies page and any reference to it in the Evolving Constitution Page.

The "predetermined threshold" for moving a proposal from one section to the next is 55% of currently registered voters voting in the affirmative. Voters must activate their registration during every month they choose to participate in voting. This ensures that those who are not participating in voting that month do not affect the percentage of registered voters used to determine if a proposal passes or not. A threshold of 55% rather than a simple majority of 50% is intended to prevent evenly contested proposals from constantly flip-flopping.

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