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Independent Voters Alliance Hamilton County Ohio (IVA) Manage Local IVA Web Pages Central Concepts of IVA Organization: Each Local IVA is published with a set of State IVA and USAIVA web pages in addition to the Local IVA web pages published by each Local IVA web page manager. The duplication of State IVA and USAIVA web pages on all Local IVAs increases state and national bandwidth to provide for free communication between Local IVAs and State IVAs. Contact with each Local IVA will be through email addressed to the Acting Local IVA Chairperson indicated on each Local IVA page. Contact with the OHIVA will be through email addressed to the Interim Acting Chairperson indicated on each OHIVA web page. Local IVA and OHIVA organizational goals will be reached when there is a Local IVA published for every County and precinct in Ohio (over 11,000), with a minimum of 9 IVA certified petition circulators in every local precinct (over 110,000 statewide OH IVA participants/leaders). An acting state chairperson and officers will be elected when the OHIVA has an acting Central Committee in place that satisfies Ohio state law pertaining to Minor parties with ballot access. All OHIVA certified petition circulators and web page managers will have one instant runoff vote in the nominating process and in the election of all acting OHIVA officers. A USAIVA national chairman will be elected when a majority of the fifty States have an acting State IVA Central Committee established that complies with the election law of each home state. All Local IVA web page managers and IVA certified petition circulators in the qualified states will have one instant runoff vote to nominate and elect all national USAIVA officers, and to nominate and select coalition Presidential candidates. The USAIVA will never establish any permanent state or national standing committees. The non-partisan independent majority needs a loose alliance of State IVAs to secure a democratic republic for the benefit of all future US Citizens. When the point is reached that State IVAs have ballot access in enough states to potentially win the Presidency in the Electoral College, the State IVAs with ballot access will form a national nominating committee to select coalition USAIVA Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates. Both candidates will need to appear on one petition in each of the fifty states. Both nominations must be made at the same time. The only purpose of the USAIVA after fifty state IVAs have been established, will be the nomination of IVA Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates. The candidates will be nominated early in the year, in the year before the Presidential Election Year. The identity of IVA Presidential candidates will be known at least a full year before the bipartisan Presidential candidates are nominated in primary elections and Election Year conventions. IVA Presidential ballot access petition efforts will begin in all fifty states in the year before the Presidential Election Year. Local IVAs will support Constitutional National public policy determined by the US Government through the US Congress and the US Executive branch, when led by a properly elected President and Congress. Bipartisan national political parties have inherent conflicts of interest that prevent reasonable development of public policies that support life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all US citizens. You and me. Bottom-up Local IVA influence will make clean government possible and will provide for the common good of our people. Local
IVA Web
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Leader of the Non-Partisan Independent Political Movement for Open Ballot Access Local and State "Grassroots" Ballot Access ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Your IVA Web Page Voice:
Select the Electoral District or public office in your County that your web pages will serve. All Local IVA "Local" "index2.html" links pages show countywide tables of all potential Local IVA electoral districts/political subdivisions/public offices/and precincts located in the County. An "index20.html" Local IVA links page will be added to show extensive precinct tables where needed in very populous Counties with large metropolitan areas. New IVA web page managers can choose to manage any unpublished Local IVA where they legally reside. The Local, State, and USAIVA directories published in each Local IVA have an index2.html links page. The "State" "index2.html" links page shows tables with links to all potential Local IVAs for counties/ statewide offices/and Congressional offices in the state. The "USAIVA" "index2.html" links page shows a fifty state table with links to published State IVA web pages. Many opportunities for leadership are available to you in the IVA. All Local IVA links shown on "index2.html" links pages will contain phone and Email contact information for each acting Local, State, or USAIVA chairperson. Your
Account: Choose the internet domain where you will publish your IVA web
pages. Web page managers will use a personally owned domain or a domain owned by
another IVA participant who is willing to share costs or provide free space to
publish additional Local IVAs. One objective is to minimize Internet costs for each Local IVA web
page manager. IVA web pages can be located on a domain hosted on a Yahoo! Web
Hosting account. New County IVAs: The County IVA is the first Local IVA created in each new IVA County. All other Local IVAs in the County will use the same "index2.html" and "index20.html" pages created to provide Local IVA links tables for the new County. Each County Board of Election can supply the complete list of electoral districts/political subdivisions/public offices/and electoral precincts needed to create complete Countywide tables used to provide links to all active Local IVAs in the County. All active Local IVAs in the same County will contain the same tables of Local IVA links on the same two pages. The pages provide a public list of Local IVAs in the County for new people to contact to become active in the creation of a clean political system with open ballot access. The first Local IVA web page manager in each County creates these very important reference pages. The creator of the "County" IVA pages will be the Interim Acting County Chair. New State IVAs: If you are creating the first Local IVA in your State, the "Local" and "State" pages will need additional edits to conform to the laws of the new state. This task should involve advice from seasoned political activists and/or competent legal advice from an attorney familiar with election law in the new state. Publish the new State IVA web pages immediately with an "Under Review for Compliance with State Law" notice placed at the top of each "Local" and "State" page. Organization and participation can proceed while the pages are edited to conform to the political and legal conditions that must be confronted in the new State. The USAIVA.zip file is used to create each new State IVA. The first Local IVA pages published and completely edited to conform to state law in the new state will become the model Local IVA with "model local pages" and "model state pages" links shown in the "IVA Page Guide" list on all Local IVA "state" pages published in the new state. The creator of the "State" IVA pages will create the new State IVA.zip file and become the founding Interim Acting State Chairperson. Edit Your Local IVA Pages: Edit the appropriate hyperlinks on all of your pages to contain your Internet account name and to interact with related web pages managed by other Local IVA web page managers. Edit all text to show the name of your local and state web pages. Use the "find, replace" feature of your edit program. My first edit program was MS Word 7. My current edit program is MS FrontPage. The latter gives much more control over page appearance, and has more functions to edit, design and create your pages. The edits needed to publish the pages "as is" are confined to simple text edits and hyperlink edits. A "batch" editor can be used to do simple edits on all the pages in one or more selected directories. No major design changes are necessary. We may want to keep the same appearance on all IVA pages to have the same "brand-name look" on all IVA web pages. For Local IVAs within each state, the only edits to "USAIVA" and "State" pages will be to edit appropriate hyperlinks to make them contain your "domain" account name and to edit your Local IVA web page manager contact line near the bottom of all "State" and "USAIVA" Local IVA web page. Publish Your Web Pages: This is simply uploading IVA web pages to "your account." Once uploaded, in a matter of minutes, your IVA web pages are published on the Internet. All new Local IVA web pages are published with the "Under Review for Compliance with Local Law" notice published at the top of each web page in the local directory. Manage and update less than 4 Mb of html pages. Keep the pages updated with meeting information (local index4.html), non-partisan candidate information, and Adobe Acrobat ballot access petitions for download and use by IVA certified petition circulators. Non-partisan candidate web pages/petitions are on "index72.html," and minor party petitions/issue referendum petitions are on "index52.html." List links for access to local web pages that share Local IVA goals of political transformation and provide useful election information. Add useful political links to "index700.html," "Local" Links, and to "Study Hall, Today's Politics," "index70.html." Create and maintain a database of IVA certified Petition Circulators who participate in your "Local IVA" web page area. Use the database to maintain an Email list to publish IVA news and activities related to non-partisan candidates and referendum petition campaigns seeking ballot access on the ballot in your Local IVA web page area. Post and Maintain updated information on all non-partisan independent and minor party candidates on the ballot in your web page area. You may delegate a page or pages to other participants to keep pages and information up to date. Seek help as needed. Other participants can research and maintain needed information. Share your ballot access goals and triumphs with others. Inspire other participants to establish web pages so the OH IVA and other State IVAs can grow to reach the goal of Local IVA web pages for every voter precinct and electoral district in every state. During the growth phase, the OH IVA will certify 100,000 IVA petition circulators to work for non-partisan independent ballot access and governance in Ohio. The nationwide goal is eight to ten IVA certified petition circulators in every precinct in every state. Our efforts will elect non-partisan public office holders to govern for our people in a more democratic republic. Non-partisan leaders will not serve narrow bipartisan special interests. (Top of Page) (Your Voice) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simple IVA Idea: Local IVA political coalition participants will reform our political system from the bottom-up with work done on our computer desktops. Yours and mine. Large numbers of Local IVA web page managers and IVA certified ballot access Petition Circulators will take the public office monopoly away from career incumbents in the corrupt 200-year-old bipartisan Democratic and Republican two-party system. All non-partisan ballot access petitions and information will be available anywhere Local IVA ballot access web pages are published on the Internet. IVA Certified ballot access petition circulators will obtain valid petition signatures to put more candidates, parties, and issues on the ballot in each state. Each State IVA will issue a certificate for each "IVA Certified Petition Circulator." Local IVA web page managers will receive a well earned "Local IVA Web Page Manager" certificate when their Local IVA web pages are published on the Internet and functional in their Local IVA community. Open ballot access and election of non-partisan independent candidates to public office, achieved by Local IVA participants, will lead to government of, by and for the people. You and me. We are a silent super majority who can elect non-partisan candidates we support to every public office. (Top of Page) (Your Voice) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comments On Web Page Location: After careful consideration, Yahoo! has decided to close GeoCities later this year, 2009. The first IVA strategy for publishing Free IVA web pages is no longer possible on GeoCities. No free or Geocities Plus accounts can be opened since the announcement was made. The change is due to the buy out of Yahoo! by a large corporation. The profit motive killed the socially responsible "free web page" spirit of Yahoo! policy. The new business model leaves little incentive for low cost web pages to encourage innovation and creativity. Greed closed the road to low cost entrepreneurial startups. A Yahoo Web Hosting account could be used to publish a number of Local IVAs. A domain costs from $0.99 to $15.99. My "cs2pr.us" domain cost $9.99 from Yahoo and $8.99 from Go-Daddy.com. I paid $59.88 at $4.99 per month for the first year of Yahoo! web hosting. Yahoo included the domain name in the price for web hosting. I own the domain name and it will be renewed on an annual basis by Yahoo! The next bill and year will cost about $120 for web hosting for the entire second year. I can decide to pay the domain fee at any time and move my pages to any web host I choose. Some may cost less than Yahoo! or about the same. Competition will keep the monthly fee down. I own the domain name and can use it for as long as I continue to pay the annual ownership fee. I can sell the domain to the highest bidder. I own it. I can keep it as long as I retain ownership by paying the original annual registrant's fee. I recommend Yahoo! Web Hosting for your Local IVA pages. You can use your domain and account to publish a number of Local IVAs with access provided for each specific IVA web page manager. Costs can be shared by several IVA participants. You could publish your Local IVA on a domain owned by another IVA person or on your own domain/account. (See paragraph #6. above.) Shop for your domain. Or share a domain. Or use a domain you already own. Old Web Page Procedure: All of the IVA web pages were originally written and edited in the MS Word 7 html editor. I switched to MS Front Page (June 2002) as the editor of my choice. I was a 58-year-old novice self taught on AOL Hometown web hosting and then putting IVA pages up on http://geocities.yahoo.com/, Yahoo's free web space, up to 15 Mb. I do keep learning as I go. I could still use some expert help from the computer generations. My high school friend, Jim Reed, has been a tremendous help in my discovery of Front Page and in learning editing pathways I did not know existed. Jim is a computer pro. Beginning In March 2003 I paid $4.95 per month to be rid of all the pop-up ads on my pages. The monthly fee also raised the storage from 15MB to 500MB, and the "bandwidth" or data transfer limit was increased from 3GB to 25GB per month. This was a definite improvement for a fairly reasonable price, $59.40 per year. (Increased to $6.95 per month, $83.40 per year, in October 2008. The policy change was due to a merger and new management. The prelude to the end for Free GeoCities pages!) My account, "dist1oh," included several hundred web pages under development for personal and political projects over the years since 1996. The monthly fee removed the distraction and irritation of pop-up ads from my pages for every page access by a visitor to my pages. One project still is the design of Model Public Office election campaign materials and pages, to provide a totally free template for use by all non-partisan candidates. For your single-purpose Local IVA web pages, a free Local IVA directory on a domain owned by another IVA participant may be all you need to manage your web pages. The lack of pop-up ads is nice. You can own your own domain later if want to upgrade your personal Internet presence. For example, if you manage political campaign pages you may see an upgrade as necessary to manage all the pages you publish. With the above exceptions, it seems to me the whole IVA operation can be run for very low costs shared with innumerable IVA participants. Very low cost with IVAs up and running in all 50 states. I donate all of my time for free. And I see the IVA as composed entirely of participants who donate a little time and pocket change to the non-partisan independent political movement. Your youthful energy is much needed to transform our world. The future belongs to the young and the future will be created by the young. Ballot access petitions can be completed within days or weeks with each participating IVA Petition Circulator getting just one to ten signatures. Non-partisan candidates and minor parties will then have energy and time to campaign for public office. We will change our political system from a bipartisan two-party monopoly dictatorship to a non-partisan independent political system. Our headquarters are on our computer desktops and the Internet. We will have a more democratic republic. Rich Stevenson (Top of Page) (Your Voice) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IVA Priority: IVA Web Pages for Every Voting Precinct You can put in as much time as you like to manage IVA web pages for your community, precinct, town, county, or congressional district. Get a free OHIVA.zip web pages file on a Mini-CD or CD-R from any IVA Web Page Manager for material costs, under one dollar. The ZIP file includes all the easy instructions you will need to set up and manage your IVA web pages. Or... request your free no cost OHIVA.zip web pages file by Email attachment. Create and Manage IVA web pages for your Local Community or Electoral Area where you live. (Top of Page) (Your Voice) Ballot access petitions will be available on IVA web pages and other web pages for use by non-partisan independent citizens. Freedom is participation in power. Be an active petition circulator and Election Day participant. Be an Active Citizen in your voting precinct. A Little Effort — A Lot of Liberty Welcome to the non-partisan political movement. RICH STEVENSON, Acting Hamilton County IVA Chair, Email |
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