It has been a few weeks since the last posting on this blog, so I figured it was about time to spruce things up a bit with some new news on the Visible Vote front. Over the past month we’ve been hard at work on adding an interesting new feature that we feel will increase the power and the volume of the average citizen.
Whenever most people think about government and how they can influence it, most of them probably think that their pockets aren’t deep enough. How can they be? Multibillion dollar companies are the ones at the steps of congress, lobbying your local Congressmen and state Senators on a daily basis. I mean they wine and dine them, shower them with unicorns and gold-plated diapers, take them on exotic trips, what don’t they do (maybe not the unicorns)? How is the average citizen supposed to compete with that? The answer may seem like we can’t, but maybe we can.
The strength that we the people have in this country is our numbers. Isn’t that the strength of any democracy? While the majority of us may not have the financial muscle to impress anyone individually, together we can put any Forbes 500 company to shame!
At Visible Vote we’re trying to do something about this dilemma and opportunity, so we are expanding our donation feature from donating to any regular organization to now having the ability to instantaneously donate money to any representative in Congress, the Senate, or to their competition.
In the current system supporting a representative you feel is strong is not easy. To do it you have to struggle through a bloated and confusing system even to give a few dollars, an attempt that will likely end in vain. Now imagine if a person had a way to do it in 4 minutes? With a few button clicks? From Facebook? From their cellphone? Now what if ten people did it? Or ten thousand? Or a million? Now we’re getting influential.
At that point we don’t think it’s wasting hard earned money. We believe it’s a way to increase the volume of the American people’s voice. Shouting over those big companies and maybe giving that poorly funded but better candidate a fighting chance. Needless to say we’re excited about the feature and feel it is one more tool in Visible Vote’s utility belt for letting the American people get a better grip on their future.
