ACCOUNTABILITY SCORECARDS & VOTER GUIDES - PAPA'S 'BIG STICK'

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Accountability Scorecards will provide the second step of a two-step performance evaluation - evaluating the relationship between legislators and their constituents.  The first step of measuring constituent input will be performed by Advisory Voting Metrics as reviewed on the previous web page.  The second step of evaluating outcomes will be performed by Accountability Scorecards.  

Once legislators vote on a bill (or other business in Congress), PAPA will compare each legislator’s vote to his or her majority advice received through PAPA for that bill.  The results will be published on the PAPA website as individual legislators’ Accountability Scorecards.       

•  Accountability Scorecards will identify which legislators voted in agreement, and which voted in disagreement, with the majority of their constituents’ advisory input (Advisory Votes).  
• PAPA’S Accountability Scorecards will therefore enable ‘Big Stick Diplomacy’ to be yielded domestically by constituents.  These scorecards will help constituents decide if legislators have represented them well enough to deserve re-election, or if they should be ousted during the general elections.  Said differently, they enable a means of ‘force’ to carry out the constituents’ side of legislative ‘negotiations’ during general elections.    

For the general public, the PAPA application will create and post on the PAPA website a generalized Accountability Scorecard for each chamber, NOT for individual legislators (see accompanying example of a general scorecard).  ADDITIONALLY, Verified and Registered (VAR) Participants on the Panel who cast an Advisory Vote on a bill will be given access to detailed Accountability Scorecards on that bill – one scorecard for each of their legislators (see accompanying detail scorecard example).  Legislators' detailed Accountability Scorecards will identify if they voted in agreement or disagreement with their own constituents’ majority advice received through the Political Advisory Panel of America, and whether or not each legislator agreed or disagreed with their original position posted for that bill on the PAPA website. 

In addition to providing 'space' for legislators to post their early views on bills, the Political Advisory Panel’s website will also provide space for members of Congress to explain WHY they voted with or against majority advice received from their Advisory Voter constituents. 

• Default entries for this ‘space’ will read “Representative/Senator _____ has declined to participate in the opportunity to inform his/her constituents on this matter through the Political Advisory Panel of America”.  

Contrasting the public’s view, citizens who become Verified and Registered (VAR) Participants on the Panel AND cast an Advisory Vote on a bill will ALSO have access to detailed legislator Accountability Scorecards for that bill.  A detailed Accountability Scorecard may appear as shown in this example for House bill H.R. 1000.