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Vote on the web
It’s almost one month since we released in beta version the Votenaweb, a site where any person may vote to approve or to reject bills moving in the National Congress.
A site made for you to get closer to decisions in the National Congress directly affecting your life. Vote and be heard.
As with any collaborative site, it will get better with time, as more people visit it to register and vote. So I’ll be very grateful if you help spreading the news.
We are very happy with this small beginning. We could notice that people are interested in participating. 7,000 votes have already been given by more than 10,000 people. We already got around to three hundreds comments, in addition to 100 emails with suggestions on how to improve the site – and we’re working hard on it. In general, the site exudes a desire to rescue the idea of citizenship. Look at some of the nice comments we got so far:
Regarding a project proposing the compulsory use of the national flag on the uniforms of public school students:
“Make me be proud again of the public administration of my country, and I’ll even tattoo your face on my chest, but for now leave it as it is…”
Regarding a project to turn compulsory the periodic public hearings by the Public Ministry in order to identify the population desires, the comment was:
“In this Internet age they still want to do a public hearing? Make a portal as votenaweb and we are in the right direction!”
Comments about weird projects, such as the institution of a Wine National Day or the prohibition of demeaning images in reality shows are a fun side show.
We have already noticed that the site is very useful to get to know our politicians better, comparing your own opinions to theirs. To do that, you register and enter to vote in every project. When the elections come next year, you may be able to see the statistics about your own opinions and to compare them with those of the politicians, finding out which one is more like you.
We are full of hope that the site will be also of use to influence the politicians. Who knows, maybe they will be more eager to take into consideration the public opinion, if the disconnection between what they do and what the rest of us think is revealed. We are also considering adding a tool for creating cooperative bills, eventually taking them for vote in Congress. Today that looks like a delirious dream, but one which can become reality, if enough Brazilian citizens show they are concerned.
Of course there are also frustrations. Organizing this data made clear to us how much governmental laws are created with the objective of not being understood. Why the hell is their language so twisted, so full of turnings, with that which is truly important hidden at the end, after paragraphs and paragraphs with no content at all?
Well, our dream is the day in which, before proposing a law, a politician will think like that:
“Let me make a special effort, because everyone will read.”
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