What Needs Must PAPA Satisfy?
Voters' Needs
Legislators' Needs
Legislators' Needs
- In return for their time and effort advising their representative or senators, constituents today typically receive a form letter reply from their legislator’s office – or nothing at all. This leads to voters feeling marginalized by members of Congress. A form letter response is NOT enough. For a given bill, PAPA’s published ‘Advisor
- In return for their time and effort advising their representative or senators, constituents today typically receive a form letter reply from their legislator’s office – or nothing at all. This leads to voters feeling marginalized by members of Congress. A form letter response is NOT enough. For a given bill, PAPA’s published ‘Advisory Voting Metrics’ will supplement form letters from legislators by stating the number of Advisory Votes each legislator received from constituents through the Political Advisory Panel of America to vote ‘yea’ and the number of Advisory Votes to vote ‘nay’ on any current bill.
- Voters need their elected officials to follow through on their campaign promises – not to be diverted by political parties or special interest groups. Therefore PAPA will generate ‘Accountability Scorecards’ on each legislator to help constituents track their legislators’ actions and congressional votes.
- Citizens want less influence on legislation from entities and individuals that promise legislators money and power in exchange for favors. Therefore PAPA will use Advisory Voting Metrics to shed transparency on constituents' advice (while preserving voter privacy). These metrics will establish a published 'base of advice' against which each legislator's congressional vote can be compared. The intended result of these published metrics, or aggregated and transparent advice, will be to place more weight on advice from voters and to take influence away from those who promise money and power.
- Not only do citizens require their representatives and senators to be accountable to voters, most citizens believe their legislators are obligated to demonstrate their accountability and value to their constituents. PAPA’s Advisory Voting Metrics and Accountability Scorecards will combine to also become tools for legislators to demonstrate their value and accountability to their constituents.
- Citizens need their elected officials to acknowledge voters are an important part of breaking political deadlocks, to more quickly generate bills for the President’s signature - bills that are better aligned with the needs of the people. PAPA’s Advisory Voting and ability to recommend new legislation will provide pathways to progress even when political parties throw up roadblocks.
- Voters need support in recommending their legislators introduce specific legislation. PAPA will provide that support.
- Voters of all persuasions want to ‘drain the swamp' - a political term first used by Socialists and Democrats as early as the late 1800s and early 1900s. Metaphorically, and in a political context, this activity typically refers to the removal of undesirable elements from politics. PAPA’s transparency tools (Advisory Voting Metrics, Accountability Scorecards, and Voter Guides) will combine to create a virtual pipeline to help ‘drain the swamp’.
Legislators' Needs
Legislators' Needs
Legislators' Needs
- Legislators need help communicating with their constituents. PAPA provides legislators with an early opportunity to post their point of view for each new bill for their constituents to study. And after each congressional vote, PAPA provides legislators another opportunity to post an explanation as to why they voted to pass or defeat ea
- Legislators need help communicating with their constituents. PAPA provides legislators with an early opportunity to post their point of view for each new bill for their constituents to study. And after each congressional vote, PAPA provides legislators another opportunity to post an explanation as to why they voted to pass or defeat each bill or resolution.
- With better communications will come more input from constituents.
- With more input can come better representation.
- Legislators need more input from constituents, NOT from lobbyists. Advisory Voting through PAPA will provide that much needed ‘balance’.
- Legislators need 'ammunition' to fight their way through political roadblocks. PAPA's Advisory Voting loads legislators with the best ammo they can carry - votes!
- Legislators need assurances that the constituent advice they receive is vetted to confirm the input is from U.S. citizens registered to vote and residing in each legislator's geographic area of responsibility. PAPA’s Registration process and security protocols will provide that assurance.
- Legislators need convenient summaries of constituent input on each bill prior to casting their vote in Congress. PAPA provides district wide summaries of constituent input for representatives and state wide summaries for senators, in the form of Advisory Voting Metrics, delivered in a convenient and timely fashion.
- Legislators need constituent input to more quickly generate bills for the President’s signature – bills more aligned with the needs of the people. PAPA will provide that plus provide constituents a venue to propose new legislation for their legislators to introduce.
- Representatives and senators need a means to demonstrate their accountability and value to their constituents. PAPA’s Accountability Scorecards , when combined with Advisory Voting Metrics, provide the solution.
- Legislators must modernize their facilities with electronic voting in each chamber of Congress to document their votes and facilitate fast and reliable roll-call votes on ALL bills. Electronic voting will better facilitate Accountability Scorecards on all congressional activities. The PAPA proposal includes a recommendation for the W.H. Office of American Innovation to champion this modernization, and for Congress to budget for this internal electronic roll-call voting.