Category: Access

Electoral Reform (Twitter hashtag #ElectoralReform) is how one restores integrity to the electoral process (not just elections, but how citizens exercise voice and voice at all times) and hence to governance, the economy, and society. Although the US has six small parties (the Libertarian is the largest, Green the most vocal, and Reform the most open to larger concepts), they have been isolated from one another. Their leaders refuse to focus on Electoral Reform. Until that changes, they will remain marginalized and irrelevant to the future of the USA.

Multi-party system will put electoral reform back on the table

Proportional representation will soon make a comeback, and one major reason for this is the rise of the smaller parties.

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Taxpayers spend $140 billion funding science each year — but can't access many of the results

Despite a decades-old “open access” movement — to have all research findings in the public domain and not languishing behind paywalls — the traditional approach to publishing remains firmly in place.Taxpayers fund a lot of the science that gets done, academics (many of whom are also funded by public money) peer review it for free, and then journals charge users (again, many of whom paid for the science in the first place!) ludicrous sums of money to view the finished product.

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