11.After #9 and # 10 above, all proposed Legislation must appear on the Confirmed in Congress Website for ninety-nine (99) days without change. On the one-hundredth (100th) day of being visible and viewable on the website the final vote by We the People takes place. Access failure conditions apply here as well.
This final vote is when the no less than a 69% Yes-vote is required of all of Here-Born’s voters so that Legislation of any kind may become Law but which excludes Entitlements voting which has its budget to meet via the number of required Yes-votes. Any and all voting must be a separate vote to any election or any other Proposal, Proposition, Legislation, Law or Bill. This second vote gives Citizens a defense against bringing into Law Legislation, which has been secretly changed or altered or knowingly or unknowingly voting on multiple items with one vote. The First Vote for new Legislation is cast by We the People when the author is voted into Office.
Citizens:
The Original Copy and all other copies must be downloaded to your Nomadi when first placed on the Election Website, which is when the author is running for Office.
If you support a Proposition or other legislation and intend voting Yes, you are urged to compare each version up to and including the final draft. Ensure each edition represents what you first voted on when voting someone into office.
Please be vigilant. Download newer versions and compare them before you vote the Final Vote.
Backup all copies in which are new or additional changes. Do so in defense against those who in the future may attempt to redefine its meaning or change the wording or cause the originals to vanish. If you don’t like what’s happened to it or don’t support it at all...simply stay home.
12.Only at this point, and upon acceptance by We the People as per steps 1 through 11 of this Section, can a new Program, Law, Legislation, Entitlement, Proposal or Proposition be signed into law by the President. Any legislation failing as above may not be passed on for Presidential signature.
Suggesting, by spoken words or written that the required voting percentages on Here-Born be changed is a High Crime. Attempting to alter them or actually altering the required voting percentages is Treason.
Therefore:
Each Here-Born citizen qualified to vote, being those 18 or older, shall be provided with an Electronic Voting Card referred to as an EVC. EVC’s are used solely and only to vote Yes for Legislation that requires financing over and above Schedule 1-4. These are Entitlements only. EVC’s are not and may never be used for General Elections nor any other type of voting. No similar cards for General or other Elections may be introduced now nor in the future.
When voting Yes for a Program entry fields will pop up on a Nomadi. A voting citizen must enter their EVC Voting ID and Password. The Monthly Dollar amount due in taxes will display.
All voting on Here-Born is done via Nomadi and requires log-in names, secret questions, and passwords. Voting and counting servers are local to voters; in their neighborhoods.
Local servers carry no more than the number of names that allow neighbors to check those who voted Yes, No or a Non-Vote (also a No-Vote) by simply knowing each voter’s name when viewed.
For security reasons, false neighborhood Voter ID’s can be entered and kept secret at the local level. At least one false ID for each voter and created by the voter—the actual number is decided on by each neighborhood voter. This makes voter fraud more difficult as hackers will have to find which Voter ID is real and which isn’t.
All voting servers from neighborhoods to Final Tally servers go live five minutes prior to the vote. They are dark at all other times. This makes hacking more difficult as well.
These servers will provide totals of Yes, Non or No-votes. This allows citizens to monitor their own voting neighborhood after voting closes by temporarily isolating their voting server, have all neighborhood voters login and verify their vote on a separate neighborhood server. And compare them.
They can then verify that these tallies match the official recorded local vote—many neighborhoods now meet and do this with all neighbors present who are normally only the yes voters. This same verification is available at each step up the server ladder all the way to the Final Tally Servers.
For the Tally Servers to be correct, neighborhoods must share and update voter registration real time to all local Nomadi and servers. Local servers and citizens must verify all new entries of newly registered voters.
Many neighborhoods have set up their own servers to which all other neighborhoods, Here-Born wide, share voting tallies. These servers are on secure private pipes. This allows full verification of the vote count as every neighborhood server total should match the Tally Server’s total.
All citizens who voted Yes for an Entitlement Program shall share the first annual budget of a Program as an additional tax payment over and above, and in addition to, the taxation in Schedule 1-4 but only when and if, the Legislation Passes into Law as above.
Citizens may withdraw financial support for and thereby use of any Program by giving a minimum of three months’ notice prior to the end of the Financial Year, by or on December 31st.
They will continue to be responsible for the current Financial Year. Citizens, when providing an End of Financial Support and Participation notification must use Verification of Receipt return mailing.
Upon receipt of the End of Financial Support and Participation Notification, Government will immediately cease to receive, demand or acquire payments for that Program from a citizen at the start of the next Financial Year.
Government carries the onus, duty, and responsibility—solely and only—to cease any acceptance of payments, attempt to demand payments or any other actions or efforts to collect revenues once a Citizen’s financial support ends at the beginning of a new Financial year. Attempts to continue receipt of payments is a crime, all participating in such will be charged.
Citizens have the Constitutional Right to inform their Banking Institution of an End of Financial Support and Participation notification. Citizens must provide their Financial institutions with a Verification of Receipt along with Certified copies of their signed End of Financial Support and Participation Notification. If Government fails to sign and so return a Verification of Receipt, your record of purchase and official stamp on it will suffice.
Banking or other Financial Institutions must then immediately block all requests by any Government Section and in particular the Treasury Department at any and all Government Levels from access to these citizens accounts. And must forbid any payments from these accounts for programs from which a taxpayer has withdrawn financial support and has provided the proof as outlined above—once a new Financial year starts.
Financial institutions must, by law, inform customers of any and all attempts by any section of Government to withdraw funds illegally as above.
Citizens who voted No for any such Program may not now nor in the future be made to, nor forced to pay such additional taxation.
Citizens wishing to receive the services or advantages of Entitlements but who voted No may commit to a twelve-month taxation commitment, upon their own free will alone, at the same annual amount as those who voted Yes are paying.
Their withdrawal from such a Program is done as above.
Any Program, which due to Citizens withdrawing financial support from the second year of the Program onwards must cease to operate if the budget can no longer be met by those remaining in the Program.
Citizens may not be forced or encouraged or sold on paying more than the original amount.
On the Second vote for an entitlement program, should an up to 10% increase be incurred, all Citizens must be informed of the increase immediately. The up to 10% increase is valid once only and may not be exercised again. Attempting to do so is fraud and perpetrators will be prosecuted.
Once new signups for an Entitlement program that failed to meet its budget reaches the number of participants needed in the original proposal to carry the budget, the added
10% is then no longer required and must be deducted from all payments and all Participants must be so informed.
Government must stop collecting revenues for any Program no longer active or about to be shut down. Once a Program has been closed or fails to meet its first annual budget or the person running for Office is NOT elected to Office the proposed Legislation may not again appear to be voted on at all, nor under any other name. Nor may parts be integrated into new Proposals or in any other form of Legislation.
Here-Born does not operate under or with inflation. Therefore, inflation cannot be used as a reason or part of a formula to increase payment amounts.
Each running Program must be listed by name on the current Government Programs website. The Program document must be one page, letter-sized and provide a full description of its services and additional monthly Taxation costs.
Programs may not be advertised beyond this.
CHAPTER 80
Of The Defense Of Rights And A Weapon To Hand
As they say on Here-Born, “Damn altogether!”
I’m on the bus and still reading—my pale green uniform feels thick with sweat. My black shoes squeeze tighter than before.
On leaving, even Skellumer was looking less Skellumer—despite his beige uniform being in desperate need of a wash. But! If he changes, watch out, for everyone on Earth will have changed long before he does.
The key goes in smoothly and turns, but the dark brown and tattered door hesitates to open. My shoulder applied does an open sesame.
I kick the front door closed and in the same instant catch a glimpse of him ducking back into the closet. Looks to me like he took a shower today—good for him. Well...he’s coming around.
I make some stir-fry, which would be excellent with meat but who can afford meat these days.
I leave a little where he can get at it.
I eat and read the last few paragraphs of the excerpt.
***
Excerpt from the Here-Born Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights
For changes to be made in whole or to any portion of the Here-Born Declaration of Independence, Constitution or Bill of Rights a 97% (ninety-seven percent) Yes-vote is required. This vote is of and by all of Here-Born’s citizens who are eligible to vote. This means ninety-seven percent of all citizens of a voting age whether registered to vote or not and whether or not they have ever voted before.
This DOES NOT MEAN 97% of the turnout of voters.
This DOES MEAN 97% of ALL ELIGIBLE VOTERS.
More so than any other time the Non-vote is equal to a No-vote!
And again!
This ensures Here-Born voters and all citizens of the Right to opt-in to any and all Programs, or Laws, or Legislation, or Propositions, or any change or addition by voting Yes as opposed to having to opt-out by voting No.
The opt-in Yes-vote, including the automatic Non-vote equals a No-vote applies to all the voting done on Here-Born.
This allows voters the Right to stay home, without fear a majority vote may take away their Rights.
All Citizens are eligible to vote at the age of eighteen.
***
A new morning, and dressed in a pale green uniform with black shoes I have added a touch of lipstick. Cannot figure why but I did. I bought the green ones on impulse as well.
I can hear him in the closet—talking to himself. I’m sure he’s muttering one or two curses under his breath. He ate the stir-fry last night—good. I was worried. He eats so sparingly.
I take my time over breakfast—thinking the weirdest imaginings possible. They are so far and beyond me I cannot as yet put words to them. I’m reaching for a future with all this pondering.
I see myself somehow embracing thousands of others. I now have a little hope, but I’m having trouble envisioning how everything slots together. I at least have a sense of why I’m reading what’s being displayed, so avidly.
I’m not relaxed, though, not at ease. Something new or perhaps a higher intensity of an old ache turned on when I awoke.
It’s the knife of fear that cuts me and for no apparent reason, no obvious cause. I take precautions nonetheless and leave a bowl of cold soup on the closet floor before heading out for work—in case I fail to return.
During the trip to work this morning nothing untoward occurred. I felt a new anticipation in the air. One I noted shone in the eyes of my fellow commuters as well. The bus was full yet quiet, but not that quiet of old, a new contemplative one.
Not even standing room was available.
Everyone ignores the overdone, overrun History Lessons, which never stop running. I had not realized how irritating they are. So much of the history provided conflicts with the data and information of these last days.
Which is true? How to find out?
I adjust my pale green uniform and stare out the window. The clangs and rumblings of our trolley’s progress grow faint—my thinking wanders over new landscapes. History versus history. Here-Born versus Earth. Real versus Propaganda. Solutions slither away ever elusive.
I make it to work as we used to every morning.
Is it all over? Is that it? Is there nothing more to it?
I enter my office.
“You believe this junk?” Skellumer asks.
I note he washed his pale beige uniform and shirt, a touch of shine on the worn shoes.
“Don’t know that belief comes in,” I reply. “It’s starting to make sense to me.”
“You’ve gone mad, Soulone,” he says but without the venom of old.
Nevertheless, I wave to zip him up and get to work but he refuses to stow it.
“Who is going to pay ADD-Dees under a Here-Born system?” he asks.
I glance at them sitting in front of the TV.
I had not thought of them lately—I do now.
“Well, Skellumer. We’ll figure a way to get them productive and valuable economically. Do that and they won’t need handouts.”
“Who’s the fool now? Wishful Miss Agnes Thinking.”
“To work I go Skellumer.”
I turn to the tired old desk I’ve sat behind for too many years to count.
Seated, I reach for the keyboard but the screen flashes to black. I am again unable to access Monitoring Assures Happiness Records.
Hallelujah...I decide to stop saying Hallelujah as well.
You could taste it throughout the building, anticipation met as utter silence falls over us. My Section, Happiness Records and Verifications, has never been this quiet despite the quiet bouts of late. I frown at all the strange scenes playing across the monitor screen.
I check around the office. So is everyone else—back to my screen.
Okay. I get what I’m looking at, World Capital Buildings, Washington DC but a long time ago.
Subtitle:
Washington DC, United States of America 19th to 21st centuries.
Weirdly dressed people march by. Long hair. Odd circular sunglasses. Pictures of flowers. Flowers pinned into hair. Many carry posters.
Does Peace get a Chance? End the War. War is hell. Get Government out my Life. Stop Spending. Lower Taxes. I’m happy with my Healthcare.
No Socialism for me.
Lots more. Way more. Wow.
Fascism sucks. Communism kills success. Every mad assassin or mass killer is or was on psychiatric/mental health drugs—all of them—check it out. Down with the USA. Democracy urinates. Long dead the Queen. Stop the bombing, and so many more.
Hundreds of cops in black uniforms with white helmets sporting transparent shields and carrying truncheons surround the protesters.
Screen changes to scenes of police removing protesters with not a single Officer smiling. Most protesters or demonstrators refuse to move.
None of them fights back. Instead, they sit as though glued to the road. Police struggle to move them. It takes two to three officers to drag one protester away.
An older black and white recording that shows people marching
in protest. Announcer mentions a Gandhi leading Peace movements against British rule in India.
The view switches to another location. Here, they refuse to carry Identification Cards in India. Cops charge beating at the protesters. Some cower, others run, yet others stand their ground and are beaten to it.
Through all the attacks they keep moving forward, marching on.
Back to DC
More protesters dragged away. Officers struggle in tandem to get them into wagons, not easy work.
Officers getting mad. Protesters are silent, passive, unmoving.
Message on my screen:
Dear Citizens,
If you prefer, a Government that governs for All the People.
If you would like taxes that allow personal success to be rewarded.
If the Right to keep most of what you earn makes sense to you.
If you wish for a Government wherein charity is not enforced but done by personal choice.
If you desire a smaller Federal Government as well as at all other levels of government.
If you demand your elected officials represent you and your fellow citizens.
Please use your Nomadi and vote Yes.
If you don’t want to change anything. Please vote No.
Thank you.
Oh, my wowness!
I glance around and everyone I can see is voting.
I turn back and on my screen, the Treasury Account displays. The dollar amount of our taxes keeps climbing. To be honest, spending the entire day watching the voting percentage climb and the tax dollars collected climb should be boring.
Trust me—not so. I miss lunch because I do not want to move. My Supervisor brings me coffee and a cookie. Bless him.
“You’re welcome,” he says as though he had read my thoughts. I do not turn around not wanting to take my eyes off the screen.
Inside my head, something changes and new ideas nip at me. Still, I haven’t come to terms with all I’ve seen and read yet...but I’ve petted it some.
Come clock out time and the Yes let us change this hits the eighty percent mark.
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